Tag: The Mountain Goats

News | The Mountain Goats announce London show

The Mountain Goats have announced a special show at the Barbican in London next year. Frontman and genius John Darnielle will be joined by vocal quartet Anonymous 4, playing songs from his new work Transcendental Youth. The songs will be arranged…

Blog | John Darnielle’s top tweets

Two kinds of people in this world: those who would gladly take a bullet for Diana Ross, and unfeeling cyborgs who feast on the innocent…
Look, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to mailorder me some fresh death metal…
So many films fall short because their screenwriters forget to include an evil cult leader character around whom the whole plot revolves…
Picking up a sweet potato, pretending to be answering the phone #hello #youllhavetospeakup #hello…

Album: All Eternals Deck – The Mountain Goats

The Mountains Goats are nearly always my favourite band. And John Darnielle is my favourite ever songwriter bar none. He’s an intensely likable, principled, genius of a frontman. Yet the last few albums – though solidly good – haven’t blown…

Mountain Goats to release new album in April

Exciting news for fans of music that’s jolly good indeed. John Darnielle and his merry band of Mountain Goats are to release a new album – All Eternals Deck – in April this year. The band have left 4AD, the…

Live: Mountain Goats @ Koko, 09/09/10

A man with clunky glasses, turned up jeans, bare feet and a nice bottle of Chablis isn’t everyone’s idea of a god.  In fact, it’s not a far cry from most people’s idea of Elton John.  Nonetheless, just such a…

Blog: The Seven Inch Cull by Darren Hayman

The Seven Inch record is a sacred Rubicon on the rock’n’roll trail; a talisman that represents all that is tiny, tight and teenage; pop music distilled into a perfect, plastic artifact that can never be denied as the only format…

Mountain Goats @ Koko 09/09/10 TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

We love the Mountain Goats.  So much they make our knees quiver and our hearts sing.  They’re so especially wonderful that Emmy the Great occasionally can’t speak when in their presence (see evidence here).   They write songs with wit and…