A decade ago, the Mountain Goats were guests on The Colbert Report. While they were there, they did something special. Together with Stephen Colbert, they performed "This Year," the anthemic opening song from their 2005 masterpiece The Sunset Tree. That's a song that means a whole lot to a whole lot of people, and Stephen…

A couple of months ago, the Mountain Goats released their new LP In League With Dragons. It's one more rich, thoughtful, generally excellent album in a career that's absolutely stuffed full of them. But if you know anything about the Mountain Goats, you already know that a whole lot of the group's best songs never…

We're a mere couple of weeks away from the release of the new Mountain Goats album In League With Dragons. Bandleader John Darnielle has said that he hopes the album, a sort of concept LP about a small town ruled by a wizard, will kick off a whole new genre called "dragon noir." We've already…

For decades, the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle has been writing these incredibly dense and evocative lyrics. And even though he's now a respected, award-nominated author, he's still cranking out new music. Last month, the Mountain Goats announced that they'd release the new album In League With Dragons this spring. Darnielle wrote that the albu...

Have you seen Minding The Gap yet? You should. The documentary feature, now streaming on Hulu, follows a few young skateboarders in a small and economically depressed Illinois city, but it gets into heavier subjects -- generational abuse cycles, unspoken racial politics within circles of friends, entire generations growing up without any economi...