Daniel Johnston

Music Picks: Rhye, Papa and Motörhead

Chris Stroffolino Lives and Plays In His Van. Is He the Next Daniel Johnston?

Recently, filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig, the director of indie smash The Devil and Daniel Johnston, was riding his bike on Sunset near Maltman. He heard somebody playing piano and singing his heart out. "I'm looking around, I don't see anybody," says Feuerzeig. "I'm thinking, man, that sounds like Danie ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground

Music Picks: John Beasley, Down, and Tift Merritt

Music Picks: The Weeknd, That '70s Soul, Power of the Riff

Jeff Mangum - Orpheum Theater - 4/23/12

Jeff Mangum Orpheum Theater 4-23-12 Better than...standing in 105 degree weather. After a ten-year absence from the road, songwriter-guitarist Jeff Mangum grew into a mythologized character that tens of thousands of kids pinned their hopes and theories upon. His two '90s era albums as Neutral Milk ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: The Misfits' Rare Album 12 Hits From Hell

​KCRW Broadcast #138 for Saturday, October 29, 2011 Fanatics! Tonight is our last Damned album spin. It's a great one. Strawberries was the band's fifth album and the last one with Captain Sensible for a long time.

Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others

Daniel Johnston's Perfect Day: "Either a Girl Comes Over, Or I Write a Good Song"

Peter JuhlDaniel Johnston in Copenhagen, April 2010​Interview by Drew Fortune A day before I get Daniel Johnston on the phone from his home in the small town of Waller, TX, I'm on the line with his 90-year-old father and manager Bill Johnston, arranging an interview time. Speaking with a worl ... More >>

Music Picks: NKOTBSB, Mixed Message, Earthless

Also, Catwalk, Holly Miranda, Darwin Dees, and others

Music Picks: Repeater, Project Blowed 16th Anniversary, Infected Mushroom

Also, Riot Grrl Christmas Carnival, Captain Ahab and others

MP3: Mayer Hawthorne Covers Daniel Johnston

M.H. hearts D.J.​When Dam-Funk covered Human League, it wasn't exactly a shocker. But this? Thoroughly unexpected. Culver City blue-eyed soul guru Mayer Hawthorne has just released what seems to be an unsolicited cover of "Held the Hand" by legendary home-recorder Daniel Johnston. Unsolicite ... More >>

The Crazy World of Ariel Pink

A predictably freaky afternoon with the Haunted Graffiti frontman

Day Tripping on the Tom Waits Bus Tour of Los Angeles

​"Most of the stops on this tour are in piss-stained alleys," chuckled David Smay, as a motley--if well-dressed--crew of 47 settled themselves on his bus, which this past Saturday was parked outside King Eddy's--the only dive bar left "on the nickel" in downtown's increasingly gentrified Skid ... More >>

Rock Picks: Future of the Left, Deerhoof, Ronnie Mack's Barndance, The Urinals

Also, Torche, Alejandro Escovedo, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and others

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

SXSW: Who Would Leave Metallica for Black Cobra? Our Man in Austin

Randall Roberts Finds Himself in the Studio With the Silversun Pickups

Silversun Pickups Record Daytrotter Session at SXSW: A Glimpse from Inside the Studio

Randall RobertsBrian Aubert, in black, seated, and band/crew await their date with Daytrotter. For bands at South by Southwest, there's a lot of waiting involved. Yes, there's hustling, and unloading and reloading the van, and dealing with sound dudes on short notice when everybody's feeling a litt ... More >>

WTF? Melvins to Perform 'Houdini' In Its Entirety in Four Cities, But Not LA?

One of the greatest heaviest records of the 1990s was the Melvins' sludge-filled riff-o-rama Houdini. Half of it was (halfway) produced by Kurt Cobain, the rest of it was not, and the whole of it shattered many glass bongs when listened to at full volume. The album, funded by Atlantic Records in t ... More >>

Raymond Pettibon, Sonic Youth, Daniel Johnston, Ron English Celebrate Rock, Paper, Scissors at Bergamot Station

View more photos in the Rock, Paper, Scissor slideshow. Timothy NorrisOne in Ron English's series of kids dressed like Kiss This was a really cool weekend for those of us interested in the convergence of music and art, and whether some of the better-known musician/artists can stand alongside maste ... More >>

SMMoA on Sunday: Mike Watt, Lee Ranaldo, Raymond Pettibon, others Celebrate Rock, Paper, Scissors Opening

FROM FRIDAY: Seriously. Take John Payne's advice below. Go to this. First of all, Animal Collective is sold out, and all your friends who will be there will be bragging in tomorrow about the AMAZING SHOW they saw at the Troubadour. You, however, will have a trump card. Background: Mike Watt, Ray ... More >>

Rock Picks: Everest, Mumiy Troll, Busta Rhymes

Also, Faun Fables, Chris Darrow tribute, Allen Toussaint and others

Devendra & Natalie sitting in a tree. But are they K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

Is Devendra Banhart a starfucker or just a star?

Record Reviews: Soulja Boy, Beach House, Cadence Weapon

"Yahhh!" confirms this 17-year-old has his finger on peers' music pulse

The Rainbows Connection

Artists giving away their music for free: a prehistory

Radiohead's "In Rainbows," a Prehistory

Artists giving away their music for free, a chronology. 1906, Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Sailors off the coast of the Atlantic hear an eerie, otherworldly sound emanate from a box given to them by inventor Reginald Fessenden. On shore, Fessenden stands in front of a microphone attached to a sync ... More >>

Goodbye, Loafer Queen

Hello, Olivia

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

Rock Picks

For the week of August 17 - 23

Once in a Sundance

Early Festival Report: Scott Foundas scouts Main Street for undiscovered talent and comes away singing

Rockin’ in the Free World

Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

Graphic Oddballs

Funny ha-ha meets funny peculiar in Art Out of Time

Music Picks

For the week of May 4 - 11

Music Picks

For the week of April 28 - May 4

Trouble Man

The deeply disturbed life and times of a musical prodigy

(I Belong to The) Blank Generation

Rock & Pop Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006 Country listings follow.

The Passion of the Rad

An enigmatic independent auteur may have made the world’s next great midnight movie

State Of Emergence

Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog

Pictures From the Unibrow Revolution

Or, how outlaw art went mainstream

Call me Nostradamus

10 signs of the apocalypse

What in Tarnation

Will success spoil filmmaker savant Jonathan Caouette?

Coachella 2004

All Tomorrow’s Parties Today

Matt Groening talks outsider music and party planning with a fellow gearhead

Sounds Different

Music way outside the box

Ear of the Beholder

Danny Cohen, beyond the fringe

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Everbody's the Greatest

South By Shut Up

Dispatches from a SXSW neophyte