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.

11 x 8.5 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm.) Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration ...

The post Circa-2000 Daniel Johnston Concert Memorialized with New Live Album Alive in New York City appeared first on Consequence. Before Daniel Johnston tragically died in 2019, he got to see one of ...

An exhibition features over 300 drawings by the late artist, whose maximalist creative output was his main form of resistance against his mental demons. This illustration is just a sliver of the vast ...

Daniel Johnston and the EYE Band (photo: Dick Johnston). Beloved underground singer/songwriter and visual artist Daniel Johnston‘s first album fronting a band, 1991’s Artistic Vice, will be expanded ...

On track five of 1990, Daniel Johnston sings in a trembling voice, “The colors are bright / Bright, as ever … Some things last a long time.” More than six years after his untimely death, we are still ...

Daniel Johnston is your favorite songwriter’s favorite songwriter. The legend was a standout figure in the outsider and lo-fi music scenes of the 1990s. His music still touches the hearts of listeners ...

Daniel Johnston's famous "Hi, How Are You" mural across the street from the University of Texas campus is surrounded by rubble after the building it was attached to was torn down earlier this month.

Documentaries on independent rock artists like Wilco, Townes Van Zandt and They Might Be Giants have been all the rage in recent years. Los Angeles Times and MORNING EDITION film critic Kenneth Turan ...

The late Daniel Johnston is the subject of a new book and art exhibit. The book, Daniel Johnston: I’m Afraid of What I Might Draw, was put together by Electric Lady Studios general manager and ...