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 been vegetarian for 17 years (after finding out that we ate our pet cow when I was a kid). So I’m always looking for something new and delicious. I’ve been eating the homemade Real Food Daily golden gravy (bought the recipe book on a recent trip to L.A.) by the bowl-full. Lagusta’s Luscious makes the world’s best vegan chocolates (the “smokey corn on the cob” bar is amazing, as are the “furious vulvas;” her chocolatey ode to feminism). And I’m always excited to see what my friend and new Omaha neighbor, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, is cooking up over at The Post Punk Kitchen.
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