Jonathan Richman is back with a new album, Only Frozen Sky Anyway, which will be out July 16 via his own Blue Arrow Records. Like 2021’s Want to Visit My Inner House?, this one was co-produced by ...

I’ve been listening to Jonathan Richman's music for more than 40 years, but I was a total virgin at his show in Baltimore on Saturday. Squeezed into the balcony of Ottobar, I found myself seated next ...

Jonathan Richman is no stranger to Boise. Back in 2017, he lit up the Treefort main stage with nothing more than his flamenco guitar and drummer Tommy Larkins by his side. Instead of leaning on ...

Jonathan Richman, the singer and songwriter who formed seminal proto-punk outfit The Modern Lovers in the 1970s, has continued to tour across the country as a prolific solo act and is set to perform ...

Jonathan Richman counts it off, and the feel-good chords ignite. Ever the gentleman, he offers a greeting, then a candid mission statement. "I'm from the '60s, the time of 'Louie Louie' and 'Little ...

I can say this with some certainty: If there isn’t a place in your heart for Jonathan Richman, then there is clearly something wrong with your heart. With nothing but a guitar and a set of cocktail ...

On his 18th studio album, the eternally young-at-heart power-pop troubadour—joined by his old friend Jerry Harrison—turns his thoughts toward mortality, uncovering new emotional depths in his music.

Jonathan Richman is one of the best living American songwriters, and though his work with the Modern Lovers bridged the noise of the Velvet Underground and the econo ethos of punk, he’s spent most of ...