Capturing the yearning in a Daniel Johnston song is a difficult thing, possibly because the specific kind of longing felt by Johnston — the prolific outsider musician who died a couple of years ago — ...

Daniel Johnston‘s 1991 outsider art classic, Artistic Vice, is getting a double-LP Collector’s Edition, which will be out October 18 via Eternal Yip Eye Records / Thirty Tigers (preorder). This was ...

Islands were the special musical guest at the Big Teriffic show at Music Hall of Williamsburg Friday night, and as part of their short ‘funeral set’, Nick Diamonds and gang performed a medly of two ...

Back in 2006, Shimmy-Disc released I Killed The Monster: The Songs of Daniel Johnston, a two-CD tribute featuring covers of Daniel Johnston songs by Danielson & Sufjan Stevens, Dot Allison, Kimya ...

The post Phoebe Bridgers, Beck, Jeff Tweedy Cover Daniel Johnston Songs for Livestream Tribute: Watch appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The event was named for Johnston’s 1991 track “Honey, I ...

I’ve never been a runner or had any inkling to consider the prospects of becoming one. But, one can certainly envision the clear head space that pounding the pavement on a deliberate path forward must ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4209344/4209345" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> David ...

Daniel Johnston was easy to underestimate. His songs were mostly simple tunes that covered the same territory – love, redemptive and unrequited; his own pain; his lost love Laurie – over and over.

During Daniel Johnston’s career, the catchall genre “alternative music” was created. The label was often applied to his songs, and some of its most famous practitioners were among his biggest fans.

Daniel Johnston, the outsider artist that insiders love, teeters into his Waller garage and sits down in front of an out-of-tune piano littered with Diet A&W cans. At the dirty keyboard, he comes back ...

Daniel Johnston's 1982 drawing "Eye Got A Feeling" (detail shown) is among his works on display at Ro2 Art in the Cedars through July 31. Ro2 Art One of the most acclaimed artists to ever hail from ...