Famously from Massachusetts, Jonathan Richman lives in Chico, CA these days when he’s not touring, and he sometimes likes to hit the streets of his hometown and play just for fun — which sounds like a ...

As an angsty 14-year-old, this song spoke to me. I listened to it over and over again. But it would take a few years until I discovered Jonathan Richman and his band The Modern Lovers’ full ...

Nearly 50 years after its release, "Roadrunner" by the Modern Lovers has been named the greatest road-trip song of all time ...

Jonathan Richman, the rock legend behind “Roadrunner,” is thankful some lawmakers want his song to be the official rock song of Massachusetts. “It takes a lot of devotion to, you know, to take a song ...

To simply call Jonathan Richman “quirky” is to simply call the late Tiny Tim “weird.” Once described as the “Godfather of Punk” primarily for his band the Modern Lovers’ song “Roadrunner” (director ...

It’s a little difficult for me to believe, but Jonathan Richman turns 60 today. A frequent performer at Club Congress, Richman operates as a musician in a very strange place. He has some degree of ...