The anticipation for freak-folker Devendra Banhart’s show at The Clubhouse was palpable Saturday night — and it all came to a crashing stop thanks to Banhart’s affinity for skateboarding. The rocker ...

Banhart created the eccentrically titled Flying Wig in a rustic Topanga Canyon cabin, appropriately once owned by Neil Young, a similarly restless creative. He worked it into its current form with ...

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 ...

It’s why “Golden Girls” - the dense, brief opener to the Venezuelan-American songwriter’s Nonesuch Records debut and first album in four years - is so surprising, with its repetitive “get on the ...

There’s this series of fables called The Teachings of Don Juan that hippie mothers often read to their children. Author and narrator Carlos Castaneda travels to Mexico and apprentices with the titular ...

Devendra Banhart’s ninth LP continues on with the wispy, low-stakes coziness of 2013’s Mala, though it’s much darker. Its best moments are a reminder of why Banhart touched a nerve in the first place.