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 is guest editing magnetmagazine.com. Read our Q&A with him. For his posts this week, Banhart will be sharing 60 videos that are dear to his heart.
Errol Dunkley
On our first tour, we listened to his “I’m Goin’ Home” every night as we got farther and farther away from “home.” What a tune; he was so young when he recorded some of his biggest hits. We also covered “You’re Gonna Need Me” on the next tour we did. Here he is doin’ the coolest, somewhat-gauche-bu-wholly-charming dance I’ve ever seen! Again, what happened to music on TV? Thanks again, Andy Cabic. Someday I’ll stump ya!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZwtBPXN5o
Zach, Tim And Eric’s Vodka Commercial
Just perfect. Epic.
Bad DAWG
Excerpt from a masterpiece.
The DAWGs
Cincinnati Nites. Oh so freshhhhhhhhh.
