The indie music darling muses about identity, Venezuela and life. March 22, 2013— -- "I feel so Venezuelan everywhere, except in Venezuela," says Devendra Banhart, who was born in Texas, grew up ...

Devendra Banhart & The Grogs, his cool backup band from SF, was definitely a high point of Austin City Limits, and we intend absolutely no pun with that statement. Before his set, though, we got a ...

“Two of my favorite musicians in the world-Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Farka Touré-I have no fucking idea what they’re saying, but I do at the same time,” he says. “I can feel it. So I don’t think ...

Devendra Banhart -– his first name means "king of gods" in an Indian myth –- was named by an Indian spiritual leader his parents followed. He was born in Houston but spent his childhood in Caracas, ...

When beginning work on his newest album, Devendra Banhart wanted to write a few songs from an insect’s perspective. It wouldn’t have been completely out of character for the Venezuelan-American ...

Most every musician resists the idea of being squeezed into a narrow genre. Whether it’s newgrass or New Age, chillwave or math rock, genres are, by definition, limiting: Maybe the so-called grindcore ...