About a decade ago I read a YA novel to my then-tween kids by Rainbow Rowell called “Eleanor & Park.” It was a book that completely absorbed three kids with very different interests and actually moved ...

This cover image released by Merge Records shows "Jenny From Thebes" by The Mountain Goats. (Merge Records via AP) On “Jenny from Thebes,” The Mountain Goats offer a sequel to one of their most ...

"I'm doing this for revenge!" So proclaims John Darnielle, the lead singer of veteran North Carolina indie rock act The Mountain Goats, on new song "Training Montage." Which seems appropriate, ...

There are all sorts of slick, cinematic violence and vengeance on "Bleed Out," the new Mountain Goats album, which makes sense because it was inspired by action movies. The record, the 20th in the ...

Something you must understand about The Mountain Goats is that Darnielle is a man quite experienced in the realm of bad, bad ...

The Mountain Goats understand this. With the June release of Dark in Here, Durham’s John Darnielle has issued 20 albums under the band moniker, growing from crackly boombox-recorded screeds into ...

A sequel to their beloved 2002 album All Hail West Texas, Jenny from Thebes is a lush collection of showtunes, pushing John Darnielle as a vocalist and the Mountain Goats as a band, broadening their ...

“I live in the darkness,” John Darnielle warns us on the Mountain Goats‘ latest. That Darnielle needs to spell that out so clearly ought to be cause for alarm, since he hasn’t exactly been Mary ...

Next month, the Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Getting Into Knives, the project’s second new album of the year following the lo-fi Songs For Pierre Chuvin that came out in April. A few ...

The Mountain Goats narrate a one-of-a-kind road trip on their new song, “Picture of My Dress,” from their next LP, Getting Into Knives, out October 23rd via Merge. The song boasts a steady and serene ...

It's been a minute since a Mountain Goats record really rocked. Bleed Out takes inspiration from and channels old-school action movies for a set of songs where punches fly, legs kick and stuff ...