Sincere, specific and smart as hell, John Darnielle is the prolific singer-songwriter who's been releasing music as the Mountain Goats since 1991 — first solo, then with other musicians like long-time ...

People have been listing their ten favorite Grateful Dead songs on Bluesky, following a post from @inthefade, and The Mountain Goats‘ John Darnielle joined in. His list includes “Jack Straw,” “He’s ...

The Mountain Goats‘ John Darnielle has been sharing songs from coronavirus quarantine, including “Until Olympius Returns,” “Exegetic Chains,” and “For the Snakes,” with the promise of “more news very ...

The Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, on November 7 on the band’s own Cadmean Dawn Records. Now they have shared two new songs from it, “Cold At ...

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2023. Last week’s Songs of the Week was our first one after a month-long hiatus and there were a lot of strong choices (plus we put together a playlist of all ...

The Mountain Goats have shared the latest song off their forthcoming album Jenny From Thebes. “Fresh Tattoo” features Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, plus Matt Douglas and Evan Ringel on horns, with ...

The Mountain Goats’ Satanic Messiah EP, limited to 666 copies—technically, 665, since Darnielle is already claiming the coveted final copy for himself—finds its way to the internet, as a ...

Transcendental Youth once again proves that The Mountain Goats are one of the few bands in indie rock that can get away with writing the same song over and over. That’s not to say every tracksounds ...

Last month, the Mountain Goats announced a new album, Jenny From Thebes, billed as a sequel to 2002’s All Hail West Texas. Lead single “Clean Slate” landed on our best songs of the week list, and ...

Songs Annotated' collects lyrics from, and brief reflections on, 365 different Mountain Goats songs. Catholicism saturates his lyrics, which include references to saints, heretics, the rosary and the ...

The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle is a contrarian by necessity, in the sense that he probably doesn’t know how to be anything else. The mondo literary songwriter’s independent streak has become ...

The Mountain Goats ended their “Rule of Three Tour,” which traveled through nine states and promoted their most recently released album “Jenny From Thebes,” with a concert on Oct. 20 in the McCarter ...