Singers will try anything to deliver a killer performance in the recording booth. The secret weapon of choice varies from vocalist to vocalist: slippery elm tea, echinacea throat spray, personal ...

Devendra Banhart’s sense of humor has been well-documented. But I laughed out loud when, while listening to his new album Ape in Pink Marble, I read a short interview he did for a fashion spread in GQ ...

Devendra Banhart is an artist that has long been somewhat type-casted. Perpetually the whimsical, hippie folk troubadour singing about psychedelic critters, many fail to notice his new haircut, dress ...

Devendra Banhart & The Grogs, his cool backup band from SF, was definitely a high point of Austin City Limits, and we intend absolutely no pun with that statement. Before his set, though, we got a ...

Today, stream or download the audio as we follow Devendra Banhart down the rabbit hole while he relays "three significant things...that I relate with the Grateful Dead and particularly Jerry Garcia." ...

Most every musician resists the idea of being squeezed into a narrow genre. Whether it’s newgrass or New Age, chillwave or math rock, genres are, by definition, limiting: Maybe the so-called grindcore ...

When beginning work on his newest album, Devendra Banhart wanted to write a few songs from an insect’s perspective. It wouldn’t have been completely out of character for the Venezuelan-American ...

“Hello, my name is Devendra,” says the voice from the other line. Then, he’s gone. Dropped call. It could have been the perfect Zen interview for Devendra Banhart — the one where nothing happens— but ...

Devendra Banhart is nutty, sure. But it's a good kind of nutty. Talking to him is like talking to a self-critical, hippie-leaning screwball comedian-- tangents, lewd jokes, and an overall sense of ...