On our penultimate episode — and the final album on Kurt Cobain’s list — Martin Douglas dives into Yip/Jump Music by Daniel Johnston.
The iconic lo-fi songwriter and artist passes away at 58.
If you're only aware of one Daniel Johnston album, Hi, How Are You is probably that one album - whether you've heard it, heard of it, or seen its cover image on a t-shirt worn by Kurt Cobain. As far as I can tell this was the first of his cassettes to receive wide release as an LP (five years after…
Albina Cabrera cierra la serie con tres artistas esenciales para entender la sensibilidad más cruda, caótica y honesta del universo Cobain.
In the years I've been doing this series we've talked about Daniel Johnston a couple times, and we've talked about Shimmy Disc many (many, many) times - so isn't it about time we hit both in one post? 1990 was the massively prolific singer-songwriter's first album not to appear under the Stress lab…
KEXP remembers artists who died in 2019 with a full-day of radio programming celebrating the music of David Berman, Daniel Johnston, Ric Ocasek and more.
Artists like Vermont’s King Tuff don’t just play rock n roll - they personify it. Showcasing a smattering of bewitching jewels from his 2014 Sub Pop release, Black Moon Spell, King Tuff and his band clog up the pores of the KEXP live room with the dirty sound that rock purists have been jonesing fo…
I've probably said this before, but this is kind of the perfect Review Revue album. Released on RR favorites Shimmy Disc (see also here and here and here and here and oh yes, over here), featuring members of Half Japanese, partially recorded at Inner Ear studios (okay, that's more of a me thing), b…
