While touring last year, Devendra Banhart passed the time backstage with drummer Greg Rogove writing free-form songs for their side project, which includes the Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti. "Before a show, we'd have 15 minutes to get in the zone," says Banhart. "So the plan was to have a finished song written in 15 minutes each night." But that doesn't mean it's half-assed: Tracks (from the party-starting rocker "Theme From Hollywood" to the doo-wop ballad "Chicken Titz") sound like outtakes from Banhart's 2007 breakthrough, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. "Usually, a lot of my songs are based on stuff from my shitty diary," says Banhart. "Megapuss is a lot more fun."

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