A year ago, Laura Burhenn was part of the Bright Eyes touring band. Flash forward and the 32-year-old Burhenn has gained enough confidence to unleash her own torrent of green-minded, anti-corporate, pro-Occupy Wall Street views. An entire album’s worth, in fact, on Generals (Saddle Creek), her sonically adventurous sophomore outing as one-woman band the Mynabirds. In her previous incarnations as a solo artist and part of Washington, D.C., folk/rock duo Georgie James—and even on her soulful 2010 Mynabirds debut, What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood. Burhenn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our latest feature on her.
Burhenn: I’ve just started on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series on Netflix; the styling is amazing, and I mean, how can you not have a crush on Carl Sagan? Other than that, another recent favorite was Black Power Mixtape. Patrick, our bassist, highly recommends Beauty Is Embarrassing: The Wayne White Story, which he saw and loved at the Nashville Film Festival. It’s a documentary about the artist who’s known for many things, including set, art and puppet design on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. It looks incredible. We’ve all been really into documentaries lately. And TED Talks.
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