If I were a girl I'd probably want to marry Mike Johnson, the creator and main force behind Reclinerland. I feel sort of shy and nervous as I interview him about his music. I want to ask him about his ...

When I saw Reclinerland for the first time, he was opening for Kristin Hersh, and my friend and I thought it would be funny to sit close to the front and make fun of his lyrics without clapping.

Michael Johnson was temping at a musicology institute when he met a crumpled old Britisher named Tad Middling, pushing a broom. Middling, a janitor with a music Ph.D., felt an immediate kinship with ...