Stream two new songs from Devendra Banhart’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Well we knew it wouldn’t be long before we could hear some of the recently finished tracks from Devendra Banhart’s upcoming album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Now here you go! The full tracklist has been posted online and you can listen to two new songs streaming on his myspace page. I literally just finished [...]

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Waitin’

Sorry for the lack of updates this week, I assure you it’s not because I’ve been slacking. In fact, its been quite the opposite, I’ve been searching and listening a lot, just nothing has really grabbed me lately. I guess you can’t expect the magic to roll in each week, day after day. I’m no [...]

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Video Naturalismo: The Darjeeling Limited

I can’t think of a Director who better exemplifies my consciousness and interest in timeless 60’s music more than Wes Anderson. His ability to capture the feeling of a song while setting it to his own visual interpretation never ceases to amaze me. In fact, as I was explaining to some friends earlier this [...]

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Naturalismo Exclusive: Devendra Banhart announces new album name and tracklist

*Photo by Lauren Dukoff
Devendra Banhart has announced that the title for his upcoming fifth studio album will be Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Produced by Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson, Smokey features a rotating assembly of Devendra’s friends and neighbors including:
Andy Cabic on vocals and guitar.
Pete Newsom (Yes, that’s Joanna Newsom’s brother) on [...]

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Diamond Days festival kicks off today

The Diamond Days music festival starts today in New York City. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the summer of love, Diamond Days brings together many upcoming and interesting contemporary psych and folk artists. Tickets are only $25 dollars for the 4 day event, that’s like 3 waters at Coachella, so don’t pass this up. No [...]

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Video Naturalismo: Rio en Medio on La Blogotheque

La Blogotheque never ceases to amaze me. Their entire approach to capturing artists live is so innovative and raw-yet somehow has never seemed forced, despite pumping out video after video. They kind of bridge the gap between the sometimes overly still live performance and the grandiose (and the resulting disconnect) production that music videos [...]

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Castanets reveals new album details

Ray Raposa of Castanets has finished his third album and the details have now been made available. I’ve been anticipating this album for quite some time and it’s great to see that it is finally seeing a release. Ray Raposa seems to have gone through a lot both preceding and proceeding his past two albums, [...]

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Devendra Banhart finishes album, announces opening acts

Photo by Lauren Dukoff
Rejoice! Devendra Banhart’s sixth studio album has been completed, according to a statement posted last night on his myspace page which read,“THE RECORD IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” UPDATE (1:45pm): Naturalismo just received the following announcement of Devendra’s supporting opening acts for his upcoming tour dates:
“Devendra Banhart has just finished mixing and mastering his next [...]

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Marissa Nadler covers Radiohead

The enigmatic songstress Marissa Nadler has contributed a cover of Radiohead’s “No Surprises” to the stereogum compilation OKX, which celebrates the 10th anniversary release of OK computer. You can download Marissa’s cover by clicking the track below. Also appearing on the compilation is My Brightest Diamond, who covers “Lucky.” In the coming weeks wait [...]

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Angels of Light – We Are Him

 
I’ve been waiting for some time to post about the upcoming Angels of Light album We Are Him. The lead off single, “Black River Song” has been streaming on young gods website for a few weeks and has yet to lose its intensity after repeated listens. It’s now available for download on young god [...]

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(Holiday) Video Naturalismo

My promise to myself to update Naturalismo while I had my one week off for holiday obviously didn’t come to fruition! Sorry sorry dear readers. Regular updates will resume on Monday! I have some very exciting features in the works including an interview with Alissa Anderson, a Naturalismo blog exclusive cover track sung by [...]

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