With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone making records today. He combines a love of arcane folk music with hard-rocking psychedelia and an ability to sing beautifully in English or Spanish, a skill he learned growing up in Caracas, Venezuela. He refers to himself, jokingly, as a “fake hippie,” but he appears to be the real thing, a refreshing return to the revolutionary thinking that once seemed capable of changing the course of human events. Who’s to say it couldn’t happen again? Banhart will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Other than Henrik Vibskov (pictured), I am honored to say that the following designers/artists/ mycologicaly inspired kunstwunders are my buddies. They take clothing to a DIY, totally unique and totally fine-art place.
Cavern
Rodarte
Lindsey Thornburg
Mara Hoffman
Henrik Vibskov
Clyde
William Lemon
Whitley Kros
