Devendra Banhart has announced the release of his 11th studio album, Flying Wig, and shared its first single “Twin” through a Matt Muir directed music video. Flying Wig, which was produced by Cate Le ...

The Us Weekly readers who know freak-folk musician Devendra Banhart as the hippie-haired beardo on the arm of Natalie Portman probably won’t recognize him now. The Portman thing ended a while ago, for ...

Devendra Banhart performed for more than two hours on The Pabst Theater stage on Sunday night for a small-but-devoted audience. Devendra Banhart performed for more than two hours on The Pabst Theater ...

Devendra Banhart’s new album, Ape in Pink Marble, is an easy, luscious ride. The album drifts seamlessly from one track to another, with little stylistic variation. The vibrato in Banhart’s voice ...

Early in his set at the Hollywood Bowl, Gilberto Gil explained Samba's birth. In Gil's telling, as various African, European and Caribbean cultures made their way to South America, they left their ...

Today, Devendra Banhart released an Amazon Original cover of The Grateful Dead's "Franklin's Tower," available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music. Banhart's cover is released in honor of the ...

“Do you know where ‘red herring’ comes from?” Devendra Banhart asks me. “No, do you?” I ask back, a little too sharply. “Yeah. I guess escaped criminals used to have a red herring trailing them, to ...

I've warmed up to Devendra Banhart's new album, Mala. The folkie freak, who hates when he's referred to as anything resembling a hippie, cruises lazy Tiki bar rhythms and tequila sunrise musings on ...

When Devendra Obi Banhart decided to be a songwriter at 9 years old, his family was far from enthusiastic. “Their reaction was, ‘Never do that again,'” Banhart told Kelly McEvers on NPR’s All Things ...

Devendra Banhart's musical worlds are so fertile it'll take at least two nights to even attempt pathways into them. Call it acid indie; call it freak folk. Whatever it is he does, and whatever you ...