Jandek spent the first 26 years of his career removed from the very human perils of live performance. During those decades, the prolific Houston songwriter/ improviser/ label head did just two ...

Jandek is an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in the drone of an out-of-tune guitar. And the mystery is driving his fans batty. Over 27 years, the hermitlike Houston musician has put out a ...

The Houston-based, heavily-adored, and altogether elusive Jandek will be performing at the Menil on December 17. Jandek’s last show in here town, at Rudyard’s on April 5, 2009, was by all accounts and ...

Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. It’s been almost three decades since I first got the idea not to interview Jandek, the prolific Texas improviser ...

Who doesn’t love a good mystery? In the early 90s, when the dubious term “outsider artist” was still in fashion, Jandek personified it: this enigmatic folk-blues singer-songwriter sounded like he’d ...

Even though he has released 58 albums on his Corwood label since 1978, Jandek is probably not a name familiar to the general public. Counted among his fans, however, are the likes of Kurt Cobain, Low ...

Most documentary filmmakers go out of their way to get their subject on camera. Chad Freidrichs and Paul Fehler actually went out of their way not to. What’s more, they didn’t just avoid filming the ...

Easthampton’s Flywheel was packed Saturday night as area music fans took a rare opportunity to see enigmatic Houston musical project Jandek in the flesh. While Jandek has been releasing albums since ...

Jandek is the worst musician to have released more than 30 albums. This is not opinion; this is fact. It doesn’t mean he’s my least favorite or that his albums are unlistenable – though mostly they ...

Many people are famous just for being famous. But singer-songwriter Jandek has shunned recognition to such a degree that, intentionally or not, he's developed a kind of celebrity all his own. Jandek's ...

Aftermath had literally no idea what to expect at Sunday afternoon’s Jandek show at Rudyard’s, the first-ever public performance in Houston by one of the world’s leading “outsider” musicians (who just ...