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Album Review: The Mountain Goats – Goths
by Andrew Bloom
on May 18, 2017, 12:01am
The Mountain Goats release new album Goths: Stream
Sixteenth (!) studio effort sees John Darnielle & co. examining the goth subculture.
on May 15, 2017, 11:30am
Adult Swim shares new dream pop compilation, Luxe, featuring Toro Y Moi, New Indian, Wye Oak, and more : Stream
The 15-track compilation also includes The Mountain Goats, Múm, and Tei Shi.
on May 10, 2017, 12:10pm
The Mountain Goats share eerie, energetic new song, “Rain in Soho” — listen
The Nashville Symphony Chorus lends the pitch-black song some operatic oomph.
on April 25, 2017, 11:10am
The Mountain Goats contribute spare, acoustic track “Etruscans” to Our First 100 Days project — listen
The hushed, mournful track evokes John Darnielle’s earliest self-recorded albums.
on March 31, 2017, 2:59pm
John Darnielle, Stranger Things, and the New Nostalgia
The Mountain Goats frontman uses the familiar to tell truly unusual stories.
by Matt Melis
on March 08, 2017, 11:00am
The Mountain Goats announce new album, Goths, share “Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back to Leeds” — listen
With more information to come during a Facebook Live event later this afternoon.
by Ben Kaye
on February 22, 2017, 11:53am
John Darnielle’s song “The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones” is about Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi — listen
What started as a joke between The Mountain Goats frontman and the Star Wars director is now a real thing.
by Ben Kaye
on January 30, 2017, 2:20pm
Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle shares new music in teaser trailer for novel Universal Harvester — watch
Follow-up to Wolf in White Van due out February 7th, 2017.
on December 23, 2016, 11:45am
The 25 Best Rock Acts with Unique Setlists
You might have a few of their “works” framed in your office or bedroom.
by Michael Roffman and CoS Staff
on August 22, 2016, 12:00am
Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle details new novel, Universal Harvester
A story set in a Video Hut in late-’90s Iowa that “hits that sad/frightening axis.”
by Ben Kaye
on August 01, 2016, 1:50pm
The Mountain Goats cover War’s R&B hit “Summer” — listen
John Darnielle & co. revisit the ’70s on this smooth rendition.
on May 04, 2016, 2:20pm
