A year ago, Laura Burhenn was part of the Bright Eyes touring band. Flash forward and the 32-year-old Burhenn has gained enough confidence to unleash her own torrent of green-minded, anti-corporate, pro-Occupy Wall Street views. An entire album’s worth, in fact, on Generals (Saddle Creek), her sonically adventurous sophomore outing as one-woman band the Mynabirds. In her previous incarnations as a solo artist and part of Washington, D.C., folk/rock duo Georgie James—and even on her soulful 2010 Mynabirds debut, What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood. Burhenn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our latest feature on her.
Burhenn: I used to make physical collages while I was on the road, picking up postcards and flyers at truck stops and rock clubs. But it’s messy to carry glue sticks and scissors and scraps of paper around. So I’ve been super into making collages on my iPhone; my new obsession is putting animal heads on people: an owl head on Carl Sagan, Nancy Sinatra as a cat, me with Siamese cats coming out of my hands like magic. It’s a good tour hobby. Follow me on Instagram to see who’s next: @laurabird.
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