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.
Lauren Dukoff
Yes, even though it is my little sister, I’m sooo proud of Lauren Dukoff and her new book, Family!
Xavier: Renegade Angel
Xavier: Renegade Angel (pictured) is the best show on TV, hands down. It’s made by the amazing, revolutionary, fearless and amazing again and again band PFFR; they are also the creators of the seminal Wonder Showzen! Geniuses, geniuses, geniuses!
Look Around You
Like almost everything I know, it was Andy Cabic (Vetiver) who turned me on to Look Around You. Start with “Maths” … and the website by the same dudes about their religion, Tarvuism!!
