Daniel Johnston, 58, died Tuesday night of a heart attack. According to the Austin Chronicle, Johnston's health had worsened in recent years, and he was often in the hospital. While Johnston was a ...

Redbud Gallery presents Daniel Johnston’s exhibit, “Drawings To Listen To And Songs To Look At.” In collaboration with his sister, artist Marjorie Johnston, Daniel has created works which contain ...

The post Daniel Johnston Tributes: Fellow Artists Memorialize the Avant-Garde Songwriter appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Celebrated outsider Daniel Johnston passed away Tuesday at the age of ...

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 ...

In his home in rural Texas, on the eve of his final tour in 2017, singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston told me that he wanted to have a big song someday, what he called “a real hit.” That smash eluded ...

Doug Martsch and his bandmates in Built to Spill are known to channel exquisite and off-kilter indie songs. Singer/guitarist Martsch’s gliding tenor leads the way dipping up and down through his ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about film, the arts, and design. I learned of Daniel Johnston the way a lot of people in the 1980s and early ‘90s did: ...

His music could feel silly and sincere, diaristic and voyeuristic, sometimes even in the space of a single line. Photo: Simone Cecchetti/Corbis via Getty Images If you were a native Texan, you were ...

The influence of Daniel Johnston’s pleading, lo-fi music has been far reaching ever since Kurt Cobain donned a shirt touting the singer-songwriter’s album “Hi, How Are You” on the red carpet of the ...

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 — ...

The outsider singer, songwriter and visual artist Daniel Johnston has died. His death was confirmed to NPR by his brother, Dick Johnston, who said that Daniel had just been released from a hospital ...

Daniel Johnston, the Texas singer-songwriter and artist who developed a cult following and inspired a documentary film, died Wednesday, his family confirmed. He was 58. According to a statement issued ...