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Freak folk Man Man, Chandeliers Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., www.futureshock.net 9 p.m., $12 advance, $14 door, 21+ Sure, the music of Philadelphia collective Man Man sounds loose, wild and attention deficient, but neither the recorded version nor its live incarnation - a fast-paced, instrument-swapping affair with band members sometimes ...

Now this is sweet! According to an e-mail blast from Silver Moon booking guru Cassie Moore, the excellent folk-pop band Vetiver will perform at the Bend pub on July 31.

For many years, Lauren Dukoff has photographed close friend and musician Devendra Banhart and an extended, loose-knit international family of artists who share inspiration variously from folk, Tropicalia, a range of other musical influences and each other- often playing, recording and touring together.

After contributing a cover of Oasis classic 'Don't Look Back in Anger' for 2007's guilty pleasures compilation, 'Guilt By Association', the king of freak-folk, Devendra Banhart has now remixed the Manchester band at their request.

Natalie Portman has denied she is romantically involved with Sean Penn. "Sean Penn is a friend and colleague," the star said in a statement to Extra.

San Francisco band Vetiver could easily be pegged as another weird-folk group that has captured the twisted hearts of indie-championing fanboys.

Last weekend I went to a Found show. Considering Davy Rothbart has been touring the country for years, I'm hoping you know what that means.

The 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival concluded Sunday with a series of challenging, dissonant sets that saw the avant-garde take center stage on the event's final day of music.

I n 2004, Los Angeles-based music magazine Arthur produced a compilation of songs called Golden Apples of the Sun , a title borrowed from the last line of the W. B. Yeats poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus." Curated, illustrated and hand-lettered by hirsute folk revivalist Devendra Banhart, the CD featured tracks by winsome harpist Joanna Newsom, ...

Nothing is sacred. Remember when freak-folk was fresh, fiercely noncommercial and frolicking on the cutting edge? When singer and songwriter Joanna Newsom enchanted fans with her nursery rhyme lyrics, craggy little-girl vocals and delicate harp playing? Or when Kimya Dawson hummed and dah-dah-dahed those childlike ditties on the Juno soundtrack? ...

Devendra Banhart with Hecuba 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 10 Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St.

Thursday: Lamplighters Music Theatre Company stages a one-night-only concert version of Noel Coward's operetta "Bitter Sweet" 8 tonight at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco; meanwhile, 42nd Street Moon opens "Shadows of Pompeii," a musical about a woman painter trying to survive Rome's stifling restrictions in the first century A.D. It plays ...

One-man band Andy Cabic will bring the touring ensemble of Vetiver to town tonight.

Devendra Banhart performs on Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p.m., advance tickets sold out; 771-1422 or www.theindependentsf.com . Subject : Devendra Banhart by Nicholas Hall Devendra Banhart would much rather play the wandering mystic than the outlaw rock star.

Devendra Banhart Playing Sunday, April 19 at Coachella devendrabanhart.com | MySpace | IMEEM | YouTube Best known in the tabloids as the former boyfriend of actress Natalie Portman, Devendra Banhart's musical output defies categorization.

IF IT was a raucous Friday night you were after, you were in the wrong place. Vashti Bunyan, the resurrected godmother of today's so-called freak-folk or psych-folk scene a ' a terminally wispy world populated by the likes of Devendra Banhart, harki ng back to the era of Bunyan's 1970 debut LP, Just Another Diamond Day a ' has a singing and ...

Vetiveria zizanioides - is a blade of grass. The name is fitting for San Francisco-based indie-folk band Vetiver, whose wispy vocals sway under the breezy zephyr of emotional lyrics and sparse instrumentals.

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Now on their fourth full-length, Andy Cabic's Vetiver have carved out a niche in a burgeoning folk movement, one that also counts sometime band member Devendra Banhart as a spearhead.

Vetiver is the ever-evolving musical concern of San Francisco-based singer/songwriter/musician Andy Cabic, and "Tight Knit" is Vetiver's fourth full-length album .