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Matthew E. White Makes Regional Music

Matthew E. White, whose band opens for each of the Mountain Goats' four consecutive New York City shows this weekend (and who composed the horn arrangements for the new Goats album, Transcendental Youth), wrote a letter and slipped it into each vinyl copy of his debut album. "It is regional music," ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts In New York This Weekend, 10/12/12

In no particular order, here are 10 can't-miss shows in New York this weekend. For the Voice's full rundown of New York concerts, hit us up at villagevoice.com/concerts

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Sports Vs. Sounds: The Staff Of The Classical Runs Down The Best Post-Punk Sports Songs

​During my discussion with the fellows behind The Classical, the forthcoming sports site named after the Mark E. Smith composition that reportedly cost the band a recording deal with Motown thanks to the slur about 35 seconds in, I asked why there aren't many punk or post-punk songs about spor ... More >>

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 >>

GOOD FOLK

The Mountain Goats continue their uphill climb

The Dual Citizenship of Jon Wurster

From Superchunk to WFMU, his forays into both music and comedy inspire us all

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Rally for Women's Rights Brings 6,000 to Foley Square

​Saturday's Rally for Women's Health in Foley Square served as a reminder that activism in America is alive and well, contrary to whatever the Internet might have been telling us. An estimated 6,000 people gathered at the event held by New York City's Planned Parenthood in an attempt to tell W ... More >>

This Weekend's NYC Rally Round-Up

LIFE.com ​With sparks flaring across the globe, from the Middle East to the Midwest and even our very own SoHo, what seems to be a moment for change is spreading rapidly. This weekend, New Yorkers will take to the streets in honor of two particularly relevant issues: women's health, and violen ... More >>

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 >>

Superchunk Are Playing a Free In-Store All-Acoustic Set at Other Music on Sunday

Not the Love Language. Photo by Jason Arthurs. ​"Time and transition is a wave that'll put you over," Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan avers on "My Gap Feels Weird," one of eleven sparkling new songs on Majesty Shredding, the band's first LP in nine years. Who could doubt him? It's Superchunk ... More >>

Merge Thinks Your Whole Infatuation With This Arcade Fire Going #1 Thing Is "Kind of Like Sports"

This accordian kills fascists. Photo by Kim Erlandsen.​Though some of us here at SOTC may be somewhere between "agnostic" and "hater" when it comes to the all important subject of the Arcade Fire, there is one thing we can all agree on: it's been a hell of a week for the band's label, the vene ... 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 >>

Photos: Monotonix at the Siren Pre-Party

Sam HorineOpen wide Of all the things we here at Sound of the City emphatically endorse--Janelle Monae, the Mountain Goats, Matt & Kim, Ohio sports teams, responsible reporting of M.I.A.'s Tamil Tigers Tweets--the frantic live antics of Israeli stunt-garage trio Monotonix are high up there. Ami Sh ... More >>

IFC's Dinner With the Band Premieres Its Second Season Tonight, Which Gives Us an Excuse To Post Related Photos

Dinner With the Band guest and Santos' co-owner Andrew W.K., Food Party creator Thu Tran‎, and Dinner With the Band chef Sam Mason The second season of the Williamsburg-produced Dinner With the Band, a show that's title conveniently functions as elevator pitch, airs tonight at 10:30 pm on IFC. H ... More >>

On NYCTaper and the Proud, Obsessive Lineage of Local Audio Hoarders

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 >>

Listen to the Mountain Goats Cover "The Boys Are Back in Town," Shout Out Final Fantasy

​The December 2 Bell House sequel to nyctaper's recording of the Mountain Goats' December 1 show at Webster Hall is now up as well--highlights this time around include a Thin Lizzy cover in which Owen Pallett's Final Fantasy somehow makes it into the lyrics. Not the first time Darnielle has do ... More >>

Week in Review: Humming and Ready to Take Us On a Golden Ride Way Out Somewhere in the Yonder

​In the week we learned to our deep and lasting dismay what a Gummibar is, we counted down the worst songs of the '00s with the newly relocated F2K crew--peruse if you dare but do not blame us when you come in contact with something like "I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)," or are ina ... More >>

Tonight! Phoenix/Passion Pit, DJ Spooky, Phish, And Jaguar Love

SOTC-beloved French pop doggs Phoenix and hyperactive aggro-twee synth-bashers Passion Pit love each other so much they can't stop playing shows together -- fresh off a stint at Central Park a couple months back, they reunite this evening at Hammerstein Ballroom for 101.9 RXP DJ Matt Pinfield's Ho ... 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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Hear the Chris Knox Tribute Record

​The latest on Chris Knox, the New Zealand songwriter and Flying Nun affiliate who suffered a debilitating stroke in June: He's at home, as he has been for some time. It seems he's making music again, as Tall Dwarfs, though he's not yet speaking--"He wanted me to do an edit of a song loop down ... More >>

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 >>

This Week's Voice: Paramore, Mountain Goats, Mariah Carey, Jemina Pearl

Ryan Russell"WE SOLD OUT WEMBLEY ARENA IN ONE DAY!!! WHAAATTT?!?!!" In this week's Village Voice, Ryan Dombal watches Paramore, led by emo femme fatale Hayley Williams, bust up the Lonely Tears Boys Club. Zach Baron thumbs through chapter and verse trying to understand the Mountain Goats' The Life ... 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

Sound Fix Reopens on Berry

​New store, looks a lot like the old store. Sound Fix, the Williamsburg institution founded in 2004, upped and moved--"like Fitzcarraldo hauling that ship over the mountain"--from Bedford Avenue to 44 Berry Street, in a renovated factory near North 11th. The store just reopened its doors. Indi ... More >>

Sound Fix Says Goodbye to Bedford Ave

​Sound Fix--the Williamsburg record store founded in 2004 by the former writer James Bradley--celebrated its last day at 110 Bedford Ave yesterday. The location was a landmark to multiple generations of Brooklyn arrivistes, who surely would be surprised to hear that the store was only five yea ... More >>

Week in Review: Costumes Are Relatively Minimal But There Is No Nudity Involved

This kind of behavior is really unacceptable. APW photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week a shiny pair of crispy white shoes ventured out to New Jersey and All Points West, never to return, we joined the rest of the rainsoaked masses in saluting the Beastie Boys, who weren't there, though they di ... More >>

The Mountain Goats Announce Tour Dates, Hit NYC in December

​A week after the Mountain Goats revealed the name (The Life of the World to Come), release date (10/06/09), and theme (biblical) of the follow-up to last year's excellent Heretic Pride, the band has posted a slew of tour dates. John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, and Jon Wurster come to New York on ... More >>

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 >>

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The Mountain Goats summit in Manhattan

Hip-Hop's New No Wave

Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

Brutal Half-Whispers of Cerebral Serenity

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Rimbaud II: First Love

In Richard Hell's new novel, 'godlike philosopher poets' crash parties and go to Veselka

Country Songster Explains Why the Country Life Sucks

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

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