Devendra Banhart signs on to Warner

devendraFreak folk troubador Devendra Banhart made an excellent album in Cripple Crow, one of my favorite albums in 2005. After releasing 2007’s well received Smokey Rollds Down Thunder Canyon, Banhart retreated into the studio to make his follow-up album. More »

The Beatles and me

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If there’s one band that clearly defines and describes how much I love music, it has to be the Fab Four. Their music is indelibly imprinted on me not just as a music lover but as a person. My inevitable downward spiral towards music obsession mirrors how I slowly got into their music as well. I can still vividly remember my mom listening to their “teenybopper” phase songs every Sunday when she tunes in to this old radio show that played music from the Sixties. I yeah-yeah’ed to “She Loves You” decades before I fell in love with Karen O. More »