
Daniel Johnston will be in Los Angeles this week for a couple of local shows. He will be at the El Rey Theatre on Friday, July 22nd along with Jason Falkner and SOKO . Tickets for this show are still available to purchase online through Ticketmaster for $22.00 plus any additional service fees. We do have some tickets to giveaway just for our readers, all you have to do is enter. Send us an email at DowntownLobby@gmail.com with your full name and contact information. We will choose winners at random. Get [...]

As far as charity records go, there may be none more sonically giving than Live From Nowhere Near You: Vol. 2 . Organized to benefit Outside In , a Portland, OR-based non-profit that offers aid and counseling to homeless youth, the compilation features rare and unreleased tracks from Elliot Smith, Eddie Vedder, Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, The Strokes, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, and a slew of other artists (check out the gargantuan tracklist below). Now, before everyone lays down their $15 for the three-disc collection, which you can do so here , the [...]

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Download great new covers of John Lennon, Daniel Johnston, Depeche Mode, the Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, the Pyramids, and Laurie Anderson!
Watch the British ukulele player cover ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ and a dozen more covers.

While Daniel Johnston's music is great on its own, covers of his work have always shone brightly, with M. Ward's perfect "To Go Home" coming to mind. Lady Lazarus joins the company of artists with excellent Daniel Johnston covers with her take on "Story Of An Artist," which holds a beauty all its own while maintaining the integrity of the song's original haunting words. Check it out below and download it for free. Also, visit Lady Lazarus' Bandcamp for more from her. Story of an Artist (Daniel Johnston [...]

Eef Barzelay's voice is whiny and pinched, more like Daniel Johnston than anyone else on the circuit, though without the atonality and lack of rhythmic sense which so characterizes the man he often covers in concert. His on-again off-again band, Clem Snide , which he reformed in 2009 after a pair of Barzelay-only solo records, lists themselves as a kind of alt-countrified indie rock, and tends to perform in a slightly nerdy, postmodern grunge vein, resulting in a sparse deadpan sensibility reminiscent of their namesake, a character who appears in several novels by William S. Burroughs. [...]

"Crazy moonbeams cover up the sky, oh crazy, you're the light in my eye..." Un poco loco? Good. Presenting a mad mad ten pack. Dig in. Bud Powell - Un Poco Loco MP3 Patsy Cline - Crazy MP3 Daniel Johnston - Crazy Love MP3 James Brown - I'll Go Crazy MP3 King Tubby & Friends - Real Gone Crazy Dub MP3 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms [...]

A ton of great announcements. The bands I'm particularly interested in are bolded. 1 st and Main Downtown LA 9/3/11: FYF Fest – The Descendents / Death From Above 1979 / Broken Social Scene / Explosions in the Sky / Guided By Voices / Simian Mobile Disco / Cold War Kids / Girls / No Age / Kid Dynamite / The Dead Milkmen / Dan Deacon / The Head & the Heart / Glass Candy / Four Tet [...]

Singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston has announced that he will be making a couple stops in Los Angeles this summer for a very special headlining performances. He will be taking the stage of the El Rey Theatre along with Jason Falkner on Friday, July 22nd followed by a stop at Open Borders in Thousand Oaks on Sunday, July 24th. Tickets to see Daniel Johnston at the El Rey are set to go on sale Saturday, June 18th at 10am through Ticketmaster for $22 plus any service fees. Tickets for [...]

All towns have stories. Sometimes it's just nice historical folklore or a tale about some out of the ordinary or weird thing somebody did. These are songs that remind me of the suburban town Westfield NJ. This could be your town. West Of The Fields MP3 by R.E.M. from Murmur I always considered this my hometown's theme song but always at the same time I wondered where the fields were? Since we only have sports fields and no wheat or corn anywhere. It's freaking suburbia where the MILF's run wild in [...]

She & Him/Monster of Folk’s M. Ward has not only been revisiting his back catalog of original solo material while on tour , but he has worked a varying list of cover songs — some of which he’s released studio versions of — into the live repertoire as well. Occasionally joined by tourmates Howe Gelb & the Band of Gypsies, Ward performed stripped-down versions of 1983 David Bowie hit “Let’s Dance,” Hold Time track Buddy Holly’s “Rave On,” Leonard Cohen’s “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye,” and more. Below, we’ve culled the best new [...]
Sparklehorse didn't record very many covers. Here's a look at a few of the interesting cover versions Mark Linkous left to us including Pink Floyd, Vic Chesnutt and Daniel Johnston.

What? How did this happen all of a sudden? Sort of rellavation that two very different musical trail blazers turned 50 this year along with many other singing alternative icons. Daniel Johnston's Birthday was in January and Henry Rollins's was 02.13.61 to be exact. I know this because it says it on the spine of the Black Flag tour diary he wrote called Get In The Van |||| . Fast forward and the Rollins Band is playing a show at The Fastlane II in Asbury Park and he mentions he [...]

It still boggles my mind that everyone who digs music doesn't love Daniel Johnston . What is stranger to me, is that a fair amount of people haven't really heard much of him past the "hits"... if that. Admittedly, the recording quality of a bulk of his music is sub sub par, but if you can look past that(I mean seriously big whoop) you find one of the most amazing and influential american musicians ever. You would be hard pressed to find modern musicians you love that haven't been in some way influenced/fallen in love.. by/with the [...]
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While the norm is to cover Daniel Johnston songs, we compiled when he covers others like The Beatles, Schoolhouse Rock and more.

No se como me gusta mas, medicado o al natural. Daniel Johnston - Favorite Darling Girl Daniel Johnston - Despair Came Knocking

Last month Death Cab For Cutie returned to the spotlight with "You Are A Tourist," the great first single and video from their forthcoming Codes And Keys . A sunny addition to our spring playlist, it recalls brighter moments of mid-period Cure when it's not channeling "Float On." That's fitting given how Ben Gibbard's got five Cure covers in his live repertoire. In fact I can't remember ever seeing seeing the guy perform without hearing some other band's song in the set. So before we gear up to collectively prematurely evaluate Codes , here's a listen back at [...]
"Who is this fucking band? It's full of fucking hipsters," a kid in a baseball cap complained loudly in the back of the Riot Room. Hospital Ships was on stage, and the Riot Room was admirably f... Continue reading "Middle of the Map Fest: Daniel Johnston, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, and more" >