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…
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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…
Editor’s picks… Jens Lekman, The Wedding Band, Richard Hawley, The Extra Lens
Some kind soul (/pirate) has put the Mumford & Sons limited edition EP that they recorded as The Wedding Band up on YouTube. It features the Mumford boys wuth Nick Etwell, Callum Lindsay, Jesse Quin, Adam Stockdale and David Williamson.…
Editor’s picks… Tallest Man on Earth, The Mountain Goats, This is the Kit, Leisure Society + free MP3s
1.The Tallest Man on Earth‘s 2010 album The Wild Hunt has hardly been off the FFS stereo in the past couple of months. Kristian Matsson is Swedish and of average height with a gift for proper songwriting. There’s no flourishes…
Mountain Goats on tour tour tour
Best band in the world, the Mountain Goats, have announced a UK tour after the release of All Eternals Deck, their first release on Merge Records. They’re so brilliant live it would be remiss of us not to very strongly…
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…