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 ...

Tribute albums are tricky. Covering someone else’s songs can be a fun and novelty way to spice up a band’s live show, but recording an album’s worth of another artist’s material is always going to be ...

The singer and songwriter, who was acclaimed as one of America’s most gifted outsider voices, died at 58. By David Peisner In his home in rural Texas, on the eve of his final tour in 2017, the ...

Following a tour together in 2017, Doug Martsch & co. tackle an album’s worth of the Texas singer-songwriter’s work, but they fail to capture the strange and messy spirit that animates his music. In ...

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 ...