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The Mountain Goats leader John Darnielle is a man with fascinating musical tastes -- he's really into death metal and Amy Grant and Dionne Warwick -- and the ability to talk and write about those tastes with searing precision. He's one of our great songwriters, and the Mountain Goats don't really do that many covers,…
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The Mountain Goats: Hear The Debut New Music With Owen Pallett
submitted by Nick Mar 29th 2012 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Last week, the Mountain Goats took part in the Ecstatic Music Festival, a New York event that exists somewhere on the border between indie rock and classical music. Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle was there to debut music from a new project called Transcendental Youth, and he had some help: The classical music vocal quartet [...]
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The Mountain Goats: Watch Debut “Diaz Brothers” In Houston
submitted by Nick Jan 23rd 2012 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)
The Mountain Goats are currently touring through the Southern states, and they’re using the occasion to debut a few songs from a forthcoming album, which could be called Transcendental Youth, and which frontman John Darnielle has referred to as “the Satan record.” Darnielle has reportedly played four new songs onsta...
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The Mountain Goats: – “Thucydides II-58″
submitted by Nick Nov 4th 2011 02:00 pm (stereogum.com)
The Mountain Goats usually maintain a freaky level of productiveness, but frontman John Darnielle became a dad a few months ago (congrats, sir!), and I wasn’t expecting to hear a note from him anytime soon. In between diaper runs, however, Darnielle has taken the time to bless his Twitter followers with a new track, “Thucydid...
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Pixies: Watch Surfer Blood Cover The Pixies
submitted by Nick Jun 22nd 2011 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Surfer Blood covered the Pixies as part of AV Club’s Undercover, the series that recently married the Mountain Goats and Jawbreaker. The Floridians went for “Gigantic” from the 1988 classic Surfer (Blood) Rosa. Keeping with that ’80s-underground vibe, the band’s friend, Girls At Dawn drummer Sarah Baldwi...
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The Mountain Goats: – “High Hawk Season”
submitted by Nick Jun 15th 2011 11:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Forget the imagined death metal drums, “High Hawk Season” offers the most interestingly left-field arrangement on the Mountain Goats’ All Eternals Deck. Listen: The Mountain Goats – “High Hawk Season” All Eternals Deck is out via Merge. They’re on the road, occasionally with B...
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