Nearly one year after releasing their 20th studio album Dark In Here, the famously prolific Mountain Goats are back with a follow-up project, Bleed Out, arriving August 19 via Merge. Produced by Bully’s Alicia Bognanno and recorded in a studio near Chapel Hill, Bleed Out is inspired by “action movies from the ’60s, &#82...

The Mountain Goats’ tour arrived at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater last night. Skanking ensued.

The Mountain Goats recorded not one, not two, but three albums in March 2020. We’ve already heard the full-band Getting Into Knives and the solo John Darnielle-yelling-into-a-boombox record Songs For Pierre Chuvin. And at the end of the month, we’re getting Dark In Here, which was recorded at the legendary FAME Studios in Mus...

Last month, The Mountain Goats announced their third record in a year, Dark In Here. It follows Getting Into Knives and the John Darnielle-only boombox record Songs For Pierre Chuvin, and it was introduced along with lead single “Mobile.” The second single, “The Slow Parts On Death Metal Albums,” is out to...

The Mountain Goats released two new albums last year: the full-band Getting Into Knives and the John Darnielle-only boombox record Songs For Pierre Chuvin. They were both recorded in March 2020, right as the whole world was going into lockdown, and it turns out that Darnielle and co. made another album during that time, recorded in the week that...