Brooklyn Vegan — Jeff Mangum isn't on the list, but one could argue that the elusive frontman of Neutral Milk Hotel might be classifiable as an "outsider musician", much like Daniel Johnston (who he covered on Friday again) and Roky Erickson (who... more info

Topix — With his blind audition performance of 'Forget You,' Nakia notched the most memorably national introduction since Daniel Johnston stormed MTV's The Cutting Edge . more info

Guardian Music — 'I used to watch horror movies every day. They got too scary and I had to quit'Daniel Johnston was born in 1961 in California. His early albums, Hi, How Are You and Yip/Jump Music, were embraced by the American underground; in the early 90s, after h... more info

Guardian Music — Here is our pick of the UK's most stylish guidebooks, in-the-know websites, top places to party and absorb cutting-edge cultureMUSIC FESTIVALSWilderness Festival, Cornbury Estate Deer Park, OxfordshireThis charming new festival features headliners Go... more info

Song, by Toad — This is a mini-album I heard about on Basement Fever, a blog I’ve been reading quite a lot recently.  I played their cover of Daniel Johnston’s True Love Will Find You in the End on the podcast a couple of weeks back, and generally assumed, as w... more info

NME - The Video Blog — How are you going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’? Jump into a swimming pool starkers chasing after a dollar bill? Take to wearing moth-eaten cardigans and Daniel Johnston t shirts? Well, apparently Miley Cyrus ha... more info

VH1 Blog — Today marks the seventeenth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain. The music he and his bandmates in Nirvana created helped to catapult the indie rock underground of the 1980s into the public spotlight and forge a new rock mainstream, inspiring and... more info

KEXP Seattle — Shimmy Disc Records is a label that seems to have prided itself on releasing strange, brilliant work that would appeal to the smallest possible slice of the listening population. Some of their better known acts include Bongwater, Gwar, Daniel Johnsto... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Ryan Barkan "On Saturday, the singer/songwriter/artist Daniel Johnston turned 50 and he celebrated with a couple of personal appearances in Austin. After a short visit to Waterloo Records, Johnston turned up at his famous "Hi, How Are You".... more info

Indie Selections For Your Erections — Today Daniel Johnston turns 50. In honor of his birthday, here is a custom "best-of" mix that I made over the Summer. I found that the official Welcome to My World compilation lacked some essential early material (especially Songs of Pain cuts) as we... more info