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Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is a Venezuelan/American singer-songwriter. He has been in the press a lot for his relationship with Natalie Portman, although they are no longer together.
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In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes in for some belated nostalgia with the Pixies and Doolittle, Drew Hinshaw compares sexual pervert artistes R. Kelly and Devendra Banhart, Ja...
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Let's back into thisone with the sort of SAT analogy that can help us tidy our thoughts, like "painting is to frame as freak is to cage"—yessir, that'll do. That's the primary lesson of the chapter on sideshow freaks in Janet Davis's history The Circus Age...
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From villagevoice.com
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Hippies get a bad rap these days, but you've got to hand it to them: They know how to have a good time at a show.
As soon as Devendra Banhart and The Grogs — his back-up band that's not really a back-up band — took the stage at Toronto's Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Friday (Nov. 27) evening, everyone got up out of their seats and rushed to the stage.
It was a dance party in the aisles at the back and I counted at least three different couples...
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From chartattack.com
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Photo by Francis Chung
Devendra Banhart played to a half-full 9:30 Club on Wednesday night, achieving occasional moments of brilliance, but generally failing to create the spirited vibe that often energizes his live shows. Indeed, it was the night before Thanksgiving, but performers and audience alike seemed already mired in a tryptophan-induced state of torpor. As if in acknowledgment that the slightest distraction might prove critical...
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From dcist.com
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By Ian McKellar, National Post You get what you pay for in a concert by Devendra Banhart, the standard-bearer of this decade's freak-folk movement. (And now that Banhart has signed with a major label, you pay a fair amount. Heyo!)
Over the course of an intense, rambling, nearly two-hour long set at Toronto's Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Friday night, Banhart and his band of merry hippies delivered an energetic performance punctuated by...
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By Patrick Foster Devendra Banhart is just evolving, y'all. The eccentric Californian has been criticized recently for wandering too far from his folky, freaky beginnings, and while there were a few indulgent interludes at the 9:30 club last night, his 100-minute show revealed an artist steadily evolving from -- but never disregarding -- his core. (The less jamming the better, after the jump.)
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From blog.washingtonpost.com
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Devendra Banhart (shirtless) enjoys collaborating 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 the office. I explained this to him and asked if he'd ever gotten on the wrong train. "I've been on the wrong train my whole life, my friend!" he responded. It might be...
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