Many, many big album announcements this morning! Here’s another one: John Darnielle’s great Mountain Goats have completed their umpteen millionth studio LP. (Actually, their 15th.) It’s called Transcendental Youth, and it features a bunch of songs that John Darnielle recently debuted onstage with Owen Pallett and th...

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 [...]

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...

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...

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...