Daniel Johnston Is and Always Was (Eternal Yip Eye Music / High Wire Music) Releasing: 6 October On the precipice of the October 6th release of Daniel Johnston's newest album, Is and Always Was, we can feel our beloved indie hero's presence flaring up more and more in mainstream culture. Just the other day I saw "Hi How Are You?" T-shirts stacked to the 9s at my local Urban Outfitters. Apple al...
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Indie music cult hero, Daniel Johnston, is all set to release Is And Always Was on October 6th. Johnston collaborated with musician and producer, Jason Falker (Beck, Air, Paul McCartney), and stepped away from his trademark lo-fi recordings to create a proper studio album.The first track released is “Freedom.”Daniel Johnston – Freedom
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If you’re not familiar with the story of Daniel Johnston, then immediately stop reading this post and find yourself a copy of the riveting documentary The Devil And Daniel Johnston. Johnston’s homespun recordings made him into a cult figure amongst musicians, for everyone from Kurt Cobain to M. Ward - who put a version of To Go Home on his Post-War album. Johnston, who is afflicted with bi-pol
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Daniel Johnston has announced a few details about his forthcoming album due out later this year.Johnston is set to release his new album, ‘Is And Always Was‘, on October 6 via Eternal Yip Eye Music/High Wire Music.The musician teamed-up with solo artist/Beck collaborator Jason Falkner on the forthcoming album.Johnston has also dates for a forthcoming world tour.The jaunt is set to kick off Sep
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Texan bi-polar musical mastermind Daniel Johnston stands on the precipice of an all-new album release. Rejoice! Is and Always Was will be making its retail appearance from October 6 via Eternal Yip Eye Music and High Wire Music. For the endeavour, he'll be teaming up with Beck collaborator Jason Falkner as his producer and assistant instrumentalist.
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Daniel Johnston Is And Always Was(October 6, 2009 - Eternal Yip Eye Music)Every mind is an island - a landlocked island surrounded by walls: knee walls, great walls, or middling, porous walls that filter the stuff of daily life. It's the last one that most people are born with (or build up). This one renders "balance," "normalcy," "functionality." In short: sanity.An abundance of trouble awaits...
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Tonight I went to see Daniel Johnston at Concorde 2 in Brighton. I went purely to see Laura Marling, who I am going to controversially say, I was disappointed by, due to the fact her set was sooo short! When Daniel Johnston came on, I found it so inaccessible, due to his vocals and the fact that he was playing an instrument which produced a sound which wasn't pleasant on the ears. I went outsid...
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The beauty of Daniel Johnston’s famed early work resides in the way in which the atmosphere reflected and imbued the involved emotion. He sung about being lonely, and – with just one organ and one voice on the recordings – he sure sounded it. He sung about being misunderstood, and – with a chillingly childlike…
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On his first album in 6 years, Daniel Johnston plunders his record collection but doesn't come up with all that much.Daniel Johnston occupies an interesting place in popular culture. He became widely known from a t-shirt Kurt Cobain wore a lot in public in 1992, but had been plying his trade in the American indie music scene for about a decade by then. Releasing his mainly home recorded tapes (...
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Guys - What happens when a New Haven Connecticut college radio dee jay with a heart (aka "SAINT Christopher" graduates from college and moves and no longer has a radio station to play records at? He gets out his pen, notebook, and PS IBM computer (1993 era) and starts writing his own bi-weekly music column called "Looking At Noise". Then he starts playing with poems under the name Poetnoise a...
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Have you guys ever seen this? If not, it's definitely worth checking out. Daniel Johnston's story is tragic but also captivating. He's one of those artists that all other artists seem to like. You may not like him or understand his music until your favorite band covers him. Daniel Johnston - Come See Me Tonight Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End Daniel Johnston - Some Th...
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Words courtesy of the great Daniel Johnston...song courtesy of the Eels...Hold me like a mother wouldLike I always knew somebody shouldthough tomorrow don't look that goodWell, it just goes to showThough people say we're an unlikely coupleI'm seeing double of youOh.This is lifeThis is lifeAnd everything's all rightLiving living living living living living living living lifeOhI'm hoping thoughbe...
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Daniel Johnston fans in the UK will soon have the opportunity to scrutinize the man's artwork up close and personal. alt.gallery in Newcastle will open an exhibition of his artwork on Tuesday 4th September and it will run until 10 November. From the gallery website:This is the first UK retrospective exhibition of work by the US musical cult legend, Daniel Johnston, presenting over forty of hi...
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I could listen to Daniel Johnston all day. He has such an amazing knack for turning a phrase. His songs are never really wordy, or intellectual...but they are so poignant and so heartfelt. And there is nothing worse in my opinion than music that is insincere.
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Music docs give you rad backstage footage, fights, bellyhoo, and loads of concert footage, but no music film was as devastatingly candid as 2005's The Devil & Daniel Johnston, which not only framed a warts-and-all portrait of "outsider" music's most intriguing figure, but also exposed his music and prose to the film world. Cultivating an ever-growing fanbase after more than a quarter century ou...
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