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New Music Report: Devendra Banhart, Plus Nirvana

L.A. singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart has been saddled with responsibility for spearheading the freak-folk movement, but with each of his six albums that term has become an increasingly irrelevant way to describe his sound. Full Article at Rolling Stone

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