Devendra Banhart

...with Beck, D.C's Ethiopian restaurants and dagger dancing. (Photo by Neil Krug) I was 10 minutes late calling Devendra Banhart for our interview because, like an idiot, I got on the Blue Line instead of Orange Line on the way to...

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Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Updated 4m ago Devendra Banhart throws down an implicit challenge. You may have pigeonholed the 28-year-old singer/songwriter. You may think Banhart, who played Berklee Performance Center Friday with his...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Devendra Banhart eschews the spotlight as he brings new meaning to New Age Early on in the new film "The Family Jams,'' the camera zooms in on Devendra Banhart's face, a thick tangle of...

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By Andy Downing Special to the Tribune For a brief period in 2004, many viewed Devendra Banhart as the Pied Piper of a burgeoning freak-folk scene -- a role he briefly adopted near the close of his 100-minute set Monday at a crowded Vic...

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The singer-songwriter stays on the less freaky side of folk on the first night of his new tour in Chicago. Devandra Banhart / Photo by Sally Ryan His hair long (but not excessively so), his face slightly obscured by five o'clock shadow...

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When I spoke with Devendra Banhart, he was in front of a kitchen table in Los Angeles while Rodrigo Amarante of Little Joy fame played guitar in the background. Banhart was in the process of getting ready to go on tour to promote his new...

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Devendra Banhart: The "freak-folk" singer specializes in laid-back, in-the-moment, cross-cultural flow, as liable to reference Latin American music as he is British folk or West Coast psychedelia. His latest, "What Will We Be" (Warner), is...

...are $24 through www.ticketmaster.com or at (312) 559-1212. Get there by 7 p.m. so you don't miss Dhani. -- Jim DeRogatis DEVENDRA BANHART The quick-rising king of freak-folk is a taste I just haven't acquired -- his last big local...

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New Music Tuesday: Devendra Banhart "What will be" NMT: Preview Devendra Banhart's new album, "What Will We Be." For nearly a whole decade, folk-rocker and Natalie Port-man ex, Devendra Banhart, has recorded some of the most bizarre,...

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