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The Mountain Goats Cover Jawbreaker, And Lo, It Is Wonderful

The AV Club's Undercover series has had quite a few sublime pairings since it started asking newer bands to take on older songs (you've seen the Danzig cover, right?); right at the top of the hitting-all-its-marks pile is its newest entry, in which the fiery, brainy Mountain Goats cover "Boxcar" by ... More >>

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The Mountain Goats continue their uphill climb

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Hear the Mountain Goats' Score to Sir Arne's Treasure

Sir Arne's Treasure still via sixmartinis and the seventh art​When, in December, Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle announced that he'd be doing a live score for a screening of the silent 1919 Swedish film Sir Arne's Treasure at the San Francisco Film Society, he described his plan like so ... More >>

Download Live NYC Sets From Pavement And Superchunk

Put this memory on your iPhone forever. We just enjoyed a killer weekend of shows for indie-rock nostalgia (or not) types: Pavement's glorious return to NYC you saw coming from a long way off, of course; Superchunk's equally glorious resurgence, maybe not so much. Thanks to NYC Taper, you can peru ... More >>

Merge Takes a Few Hours Off From the Arcade Fire Extravaganza to Sign the Mountain Goats

Farewell, 4AD logo​North Carolina indie titan Merge is having a good week. Two days ago, the long-awaited third Arcade Fire record, The Suburbs, came out to tremendous acclaim, some consternation, and one hell of a New York show last night at MSG. And today, the label announced two new signing ... More >>

Go See The Apparently Totally Raw Mountain Goats Documentary Thursday Night At The IFC Center, Or Buy The DVD On Record Store Day

​Rian Johnson (the dude who did Brick and The Brothers Bloom) has polished off a MGs concert doc, with John Darnielle and co. doing stripped-down tunes from their recent (and profoundly traumatic) The Life of the World to Come. See it at the IFC Center tomorrow night (tix here) or buy it Satur ... More >>

The Mountain Goats Played Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Well, it wasn't exactly Stephen Colbert handling vocals on "This Year," but anytime you can get John Darnielle and Randy Jackson in the same room, you kind of have to do it, right? The band went with "Genesis 3:23"; the svelte second guitarist looks to be Perry Wright from the band Prayers and Tea ... More >>

Tonight! Mountain Goats, Alicia Keys, Russian Circles, And Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

​If you listen to only one biblical-themed rock record this year, it's gotta be the Mountain Goats' The Life of the World to Come, explored by SOTC's own Zach Baron here and featured tonight as the Goats take Webster Hall with Final Fantasy. Note: Frontman John Darnielle's fans can be pretty i ... More >>

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Week in Review: The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock

Photo of South Williamsburg's the Woods by Puja Patel​In the week in which everyone went to rock and roll fantasy camp--whether it be the one that takes place inside the Colbert Report studios with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle or the one that takes place on the disco dance floor with Vin ... More >>

What You Didn't See on Last Night's Colbert Report: A Mountain Goats-Colbert Duet

The Mountain Goats Get Biblical

More epic trauma from John Darnielle and some other, very unhappy people

There Is A New Mountain Goats Song, Album: "Genesis 3:23," from the Forthcoming The Life of the World to Come

Mark Van S.​ Genesis 3:23 reads "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken," or it does in the King James version, anyway, and so, more or less, goes the new single by the Mountain Goats, "Genesis 3:23," the chorus of which is " ... More >>

The Hold Steady Cover the Mountain Goats

As indie-rock love affairs go, the one between Craig Finn and John Darnielle is one of the best: Finn's "Girls Like Status" memorably namechecked the Mountain Goats' "This Year," and Darnielle has been known to sub in the Hold Steady's name on "Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton," to pretty ... More >>

On the Long, Numbingly Repetitive Ancestry of New York's "Let There Be Doom" Sunn0))) Review

New York magazine is good for one absolutely maddening piece about music every month or so, whether it be the much reviled "Jukebox" feature, once described in this space as "a shame, and a perpetually bad omen," or the mag's Mountain Goats feature in March, about which the name-- "God & Worshipper: ... More >>

The Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice, Together Again: Moon Colony Bloodbath

The new non-Comedians collaboration between the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle and John Vanderslice is a split LP, tremendously named Moon Colony Bloodbath, loosely billed as "concept record about organ harvesting colonies on the moon." The cover art, which you should picture on the front of an LP, ... More >>

BOHEMIAN BOND

Mountain Goats at the Society for Ethical Culture Now Available for Download

Photo courtesy of Doc Acula's photostream Our famously particular hopes for solo, primitive Mountain Goats shows were amply fulfilled last Friday night, when John Darnielle took the stage in the high school auditorium that is the NYC Society for Ethical Culture. For purposes of extreme standom, no ... More >>

MORE TO SAY

The Mountain Goats can, and will, go home again

The Mountain Goats in New York: Sensitive, A Little Bit God-Like

Kind of a fascinating ongoing discussion underway at the Mountain Goats forums about the new New York feature about John Darnielle, entitled "God & Worshipper: A Rock-and-Roll Love Story, of Sorts: The complex bond between the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle and his sensitive fans." The pitfalls he ... More >>

James Franco Recommends Carl Wilson's A Journey to the End of Taste at the Oscars

Zoilus is oddly (modestly?) quiet today, but Carl Wilson had his 33 1/3 book Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste recommended by James Franco on the Oscars red carpet last night. Since these books are labors of love in a bizarre, almost impossibly quixotic sense, it's good to see W ... More >>

Mountain Goats Gone Primitive: New Solo Tour Dates

Two of these guys are not going on the no-sideburns tour For an awful long time, every John Darnielle tour was a solo tour. Excepting an early stretch with Rachel Ware, Darnielle's Mountain Goats were a purely one man entity, if a bit a of joke on the whole singer-songwriter phenomenon. The arrang ... More >>

On the Mountain Goats and Kaki King's "Black Pear Tree"

The Mountain Goats, Articulately Enraged

New Mountain Goats: Satanic Messiah, and the Top Five Free TMG Downloads

"Teenage Alternative Realities" and Black Sabbath in John Darnielle's Master of Reality

Please Visit the Blog "Stage Dumps" Immediately

John Darnielle Rhapsodizes Black Sabbath This Saturday Night

The Singles Column: Coldplay, DJ Khaled, Ting Tings

Live: The Mountain Goats at Webster Hall

Why?'s Alopecia

Acrobatic excursions, mired in self-doubt

GOAT, RESPLENDENT

The Mountain Goats summit in Manhattan

John Darnielle's God Is Not Great

The delusional tragic heroes of Mountain Goats songs are as doomed as ever

Seven Questions For John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats

Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Live Shows of 2007

No Context: Mountain Goats at NYU

Old Time Relijun, Mountain Goats Play NY in October

The Daily Show Throws a Party

Brutal Half-Whispers of Cerebral Serenity

Listening in Real Time

Eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history

The Mountain Goats Squash Beef With Nas

Storyville

Wry rambler slings his dignified words above the silence

The Talking Cure

Collaborating with real live mountain goats, John Darnielle puts escape behind him

Edges of the Groove

Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

Don't Call It a Comeback

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Rock 'n' Roll Grad School

'If I can't dance about your architecture, I don't wanna be a part of it.'