Devendra Banhart News: At Home With Devendra Banhart, The High Priest of the L.A. Scene

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Devendra Banhart has been tormented by over-privileged teens in Malibu, homeless in Paris and homeless in New York �" but he’s hopeful everywhere he goes. The rail-thin high priest of the new Los Angeles scene opens up to Rolling Stone’s Vanessa Grigoriadis in our new issue, describing the circumstances of his globetrotting youth, key moments of musical discovery (like when he listened to Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day on repeat for a month) and the creation of What Will We Be, the most straightforward rock album of his young yet prolific career.

When our cameras ventured to Banhart’s East...