On Wednesday, a host of musicians came together to honor late Irish legends Shane MacGowan and Sinead O’Connor with a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Most notably, O’Connor’s daughter, Roisin Waters, paid tribute to her mother with a stirring performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
The concert also saw Bettye Lavette sing “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” Cat Power put her spin on “The Body of an American,” and Resistance Revival Chorus cover “Thank You for Hearing Me,” among other performances of O’Connor’s music. Additionally, Glen Hansard and Imelda May teamed up to perform MacGowan and O’Connor’s duet “Haunted.”
Among the artists who covered songs by MacGowan and his band The Pogues were Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano (“A Pair of Brown Eyes”), Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz (“The Church of Holy Spook”), Billy Bragg, The Hold Steady...
Most notably, O’Connor’s daughter, Roisin Waters, paid tribute to her mother with a stirring performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
The concert also saw Bettye Lavette sing “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” Cat Power put her spin on “The Body of an American,” and Resistance Revival Chorus cover “Thank You for Hearing Me,” among other performances of O’Connor’s music. Additionally, Glen Hansard and Imelda May teamed up to perform MacGowan and O’Connor’s duet “Haunted.”
Among the artists who covered songs by MacGowan and his band The Pogues were Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano (“A Pair of Brown Eyes”), Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz (“The Church of Holy Spook”), Billy Bragg, The Hold Steady...
- 3/21/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
The Mountain Goats have shared “Fresh Tattoo,” the latest single from Jenny from Thebes, their sequel album to 2002’s All Hail West Texas. Plus, they’ve announced new stretch of US tour dates for Winter 2023 (get tickets here).
“Fresh Tattoo” assembles an impressive group of collaborators including Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, horn players Matt Douglas and Evan Ringel, and singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson, whom frontman John Darnielle credited in a statement with helping the band get their start after hosting an open mic night in the ’90s.
“Listening to Matt put down the harmonies on [“Fresh Tattoo”] in Tulsa earlier this year was one of the best moments I’ve ever had in my musical life,” he shared. “It meant so much to make something new with him, I wouldn’t even be here without him. I’m very happy to share it with the world today.”
In regards to the continuing narrative...
“Fresh Tattoo” assembles an impressive group of collaborators including Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, horn players Matt Douglas and Evan Ringel, and singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson, whom frontman John Darnielle credited in a statement with helping the band get their start after hosting an open mic night in the ’90s.
“Listening to Matt put down the harmonies on [“Fresh Tattoo”] in Tulsa earlier this year was one of the best moments I’ve ever had in my musical life,” he shared. “It meant so much to make something new with him, I wouldn’t even be here without him. I’m very happy to share it with the world today.”
In regards to the continuing narrative...
- 8/23/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
The Mountain Goats have announced their new album, Jenny from Thebes. Billed as the sequel to 2002’s All Hail West Texas, it’s out on October 27th via Merge Records and includes the lead single, “Clean Slate.” Stream the track below.
According to a press release, Jenny from Thebes is “a story about the individual and society, about safety and shelter and those who choose to provide care when nobody else will.” Of course, that individual is Jenny, who longtime Mountain Goats fans will recognize from the All Hail West Texas cut bearing her name as well as “Straight Six” from Jam Eater Blues and “Night Light,” a track that appears on side two of Transcendental Youth.
Produced by Grammy-winner Trina Shoemaker, the 12-track project features contributions from Bully’s Alicia Bognanno (guitar) and Matt Douglas (horn and string arrangements). Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s and Matt Nathanson also provide backing vocals.
According to a press release, Jenny from Thebes is “a story about the individual and society, about safety and shelter and those who choose to provide care when nobody else will.” Of course, that individual is Jenny, who longtime Mountain Goats fans will recognize from the All Hail West Texas cut bearing her name as well as “Straight Six” from Jam Eater Blues and “Night Light,” a track that appears on side two of Transcendental Youth.
Produced by Grammy-winner Trina Shoemaker, the 12-track project features contributions from Bully’s Alicia Bognanno (guitar) and Matt Douglas (horn and string arrangements). Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s and Matt Nathanson also provide backing vocals.
- 7/19/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
When Rian Johnson comes to television, he does so with a “big swing,” as music supervisor Thomas Golubić puts it. The multiple Emmy and Grammy nominee is on board for Johnson’s “Poker Face” starring Natasha Lyonne, who also executive produces the hour-long dark comedy.
A former Guild of Music Supervisors president, and three-time Gms Award winner, most notably for “Breaking Bad,” Golubic brings his more than 20 years of music supervision experience to “Poker Face.”
The first season put Golubić’s cross-section of skills to the test with hurdles like difficult clearances to on-camera musical performances and creation of original songs. Golubić met these challenges head-on with support from his team at SuperMusicVision, which includes Olivia Schlichting and clearance services by Jill Meyers Music.
Golubić picks his favorite needle drops from the first eight episodes below. And while he can’t share what songs are coming up, he teases episode...
A former Guild of Music Supervisors president, and three-time Gms Award winner, most notably for “Breaking Bad,” Golubic brings his more than 20 years of music supervision experience to “Poker Face.”
The first season put Golubić’s cross-section of skills to the test with hurdles like difficult clearances to on-camera musical performances and creation of original songs. Golubić met these challenges head-on with support from his team at SuperMusicVision, which includes Olivia Schlichting and clearance services by Jill Meyers Music.
Golubić picks his favorite needle drops from the first eight episodes below. And while he can’t share what songs are coming up, he teases episode...
- 3/1/2023
- by Lily Moayeri
- Variety Film + TV
One club welcomes another on the latest installment of The Losers’ Club’s On Writers series.
This week, co-hosts Randall Colburn and Mel Kassel chat with acclaimed novelist Paul G. Tremblay about last year’s The Pallbearers Club, a twisty tale of two loners that allows them both operate as unreliable narrators — one via his unpublished memoir, the other through the notes she leaves in its margins. It’s an unnerving and edifying story of friendship, obsession, and addiction, not to mention vampirism, be it of the literal or emotional kind.
In conversation, Tremblay unpacks his careful approach to ambiguity and the necessity he feels to earn his experiments with narrative. He also discusses Knock at the Cabin, the M. Night Shyamalan-directed adaptation of his Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Cabin at the End of the World, and his experience as a novelist in Hollywood. Tremblay also teases his next novel,...
This week, co-hosts Randall Colburn and Mel Kassel chat with acclaimed novelist Paul G. Tremblay about last year’s The Pallbearers Club, a twisty tale of two loners that allows them both operate as unreliable narrators — one via his unpublished memoir, the other through the notes she leaves in its margins. It’s an unnerving and edifying story of friendship, obsession, and addiction, not to mention vampirism, be it of the literal or emotional kind.
In conversation, Tremblay unpacks his careful approach to ambiguity and the necessity he feels to earn his experiments with narrative. He also discusses Knock at the Cabin, the M. Night Shyamalan-directed adaptation of his Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Cabin at the End of the World, and his experience as a novelist in Hollywood. Tremblay also teases his next novel,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Randall Colburn
- bloody-disgusting.com
Hot off the heels of his fan-favourite Knives Out sequel, director Rian Johnson is releasing his debut TV series, Poker Face.
Starring Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne as show-lead Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to discern whether someone’s lying, the show follows Charlie as she hits the road, stumbling upon a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.
Here’s everything we know about Johnson’s highly anticipated TV series Poker Face, including its Glass Onion connection, all the expected celebrity cameos and more.
Will it be connected to Glass Onion?
At the moment, it is unknown what kind of Glass Onion Easter eggs might appear in the series.
However, in its first official Television Critics Association exclusive look, released on 13 January, one of its character’s voiceover lines makes an obvious nod to Johnson’s newest mystery-comedy, saying: “But...
Starring Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne as show-lead Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to discern whether someone’s lying, the show follows Charlie as she hits the road, stumbling upon a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.
Here’s everything we know about Johnson’s highly anticipated TV series Poker Face, including its Glass Onion connection, all the expected celebrity cameos and more.
Will it be connected to Glass Onion?
At the moment, it is unknown what kind of Glass Onion Easter eggs might appear in the series.
However, in its first official Television Critics Association exclusive look, released on 13 January, one of its character’s voiceover lines makes an obvious nod to Johnson’s newest mystery-comedy, saying: “But...
- 1/17/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at The Mountain Goats' Woke Up New, directed by Rian Johnson. In honor of Rian Johnson's new film Glass Onion, in theaters this Thanksgiving, let's look at the career-long love-affair between Rian Johnson and The Mountain Goats. It all started with Brick. On the soundtrack of Brick there is a song called Brain Hammer, ostensibly written and sung by a band called The Hospital Bomber Experience. That band doesn't exist, but was made up for the film. John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats immediately recognized the bandname as a reference to a fictional band in one of his songs, 'The Best Ever Death Metal...
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- 11/21/2022
- Screen Anarchy
As the driving force behind The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle has long been lauded for his rich, dense lyricism, where emotional landmines lay in wait beside deep references to classic literature, forgotten history, and pop cultural ephemera. The prolific songwriter published his debut novel, Wolf In White Van, in 2014, and that knotty and genre-steeped […]
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- 3/18/2022
- by Randall Colburn
- bloody-disgusting.com
Gage Chandler isn’t like the other true crime writers. That’s impressed upon readers early in The Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle’s third novel, Devil House. “I try to honor the dead in my books,” Chandler says. “It’s one of the things, I hope, that sets me apart a little from my partners in true crime.”...
- 1/25/2022
- by Bradley Babendir
- avclub.com
Ring in the New Year with exorcisms, dreamscapes, and a true crime writer’s take on a haunted house. Read on for January 2022’s top horror tales long and short!
The Wakening by Jg Faherty
Type: Novel
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
Release date: Jan. 18
Den of Geek says: 2022 could use an exorcism to kick things off, courtesy of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Jg Faherty.
Publisher’s summary: A team of paranormal investigators, a priest and a defrocked priest with a dark secret join forces to combat of a vengeful ancient demon, and the evil spreading throughout a small New York town.
Fifty years ago, Father Leo Bonaventura, a young exorcist, cast a demon out from a young boy in Central America. The demon, Asmodeus, vowed revenge. Now the demon has returned, in the same town where Bonaventura is a retired priest nearing the end of his life.
In a series of not-so-coincidental events,...
The Wakening by Jg Faherty
Type: Novel
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
Release date: Jan. 18
Den of Geek says: 2022 could use an exorcism to kick things off, courtesy of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Jg Faherty.
Publisher’s summary: A team of paranormal investigators, a priest and a defrocked priest with a dark secret join forces to combat of a vengeful ancient demon, and the evil spreading throughout a small New York town.
Fifty years ago, Father Leo Bonaventura, a young exorcist, cast a demon out from a young boy in Central America. The demon, Asmodeus, vowed revenge. Now the demon has returned, in the same town where Bonaventura is a retired priest nearing the end of his life.
In a series of not-so-coincidental events,...
- 1/4/2022
- by Natalie Zutter
- Den of Geek
Mac McCaughan, frontman of indie rock stalwarts Superchunk, has released a new song, “Dawn Bends,” from his upcoming solo album, The Sound of Yourself, out September 24th via Merge.
“Dawn Bends” is, largely, an acoustic-led tune, until about halfway through, when an electric guitar appears out of nowhere, spinning knotty, distorted riffs to counterbalance the otherwise mellow song. “Feet in the air,” McCaughan sings, “Head stuck deep in the sand/How will you find your friends?/When dawn doesn’t break, it bends.”
In a statement, McCaughan described “Dawn Bends...
“Dawn Bends” is, largely, an acoustic-led tune, until about halfway through, when an electric guitar appears out of nowhere, spinning knotty, distorted riffs to counterbalance the otherwise mellow song. “Feet in the air,” McCaughan sings, “Head stuck deep in the sand/How will you find your friends?/When dawn doesn’t break, it bends.”
In a statement, McCaughan described “Dawn Bends...
- 7/20/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Twenty-five years ago, Andrew Choi had a small revelation. He was attending a funeral for the mother of a Sunday-school teacher, and, as a young Juilliard-trained violinist, he had been asked to perform. For the somber occasion, Choi selected a Bach adagio — “the most depressing piece of music I could possibly play,” he says now. But as he played, he looked over and realized that the teacher, despite having just lost her mother, was smiling.
“It totally blew my mind,” says Choi, 41, who performs as a singer-songwriter under the moniker St. Lenox.
“It totally blew my mind,” says Choi, 41, who performs as a singer-songwriter under the moniker St. Lenox.
- 7/8/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
“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 Poppins up to this point. One of the most charming songs he ever wrote, 2005’s “Dance Music,” was an origin story of sorts about the power of his record player to drawn out the pain of his abusive childhood; “Against Pollution,” a lovely hinge point on the Goats’ excellent 2004 album We Shall All Be Healed,...
- 6/29/2021
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Ahead of the release of the Mountain Goats’ latest album Dark in Here, the band has shared the title track from their upcoming LP.
“Dark in Here,” recorded at legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, finds frontman John Darnielle spinning a Spaghetti Western-inspired revenge fantasy.
“You who stood so proud once/I can taste your fear/You blazed like torches/It’s dark in here,” Darnielle sings on the track. “It’s dark as a coal mine filling up with gas/I stand ready for the blast.”
Dark in Here arrives June 25th via Merge.
“Dark in Here,” recorded at legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, finds frontman John Darnielle spinning a Spaghetti Western-inspired revenge fantasy.
“You who stood so proud once/I can taste your fear/You blazed like torches/It’s dark in here,” Darnielle sings on the track. “It’s dark as a coal mine filling up with gas/I stand ready for the blast.”
Dark in Here arrives June 25th via Merge.
- 6/3/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats have announced a new album, Dark in Here, and on Tuesday shared a song from the LP, “The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums.”
Recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Dark in Here will take a quieter approach than Getting Into Knives, its “sibling” record recorded in Memphis and released last October. According to Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes, lead singer and songwriter John Darnielle wrote the autobiographical “The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums” about his experiences going to metal shows at Fender’s Ballroom in Long Beach,...
Recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Dark in Here will take a quieter approach than Getting Into Knives, its “sibling” record recorded in Memphis and released last October. According to Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes, lead singer and songwriter John Darnielle wrote the autobiographical “The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums” about his experiences going to metal shows at Fender’s Ballroom in Long Beach,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats have released a tender new song, “Mobile,” from their upcoming album, Dark in Here, out June 25th via Merge.
“Mobile” boasts a nimble mix of guitars and piano, and the lyrics find frontman John Darnielle recounting the Biblical story of Jonah, recast with a Southern twist and ostensibly set on the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama. “I’m on a balcony in Mobile, Alabama, waiting for the wind to throw me down,” Darnielle sings, “Lord, if you won’t keep me safe and warm/Then send down...
“Mobile” boasts a nimble mix of guitars and piano, and the lyrics find frontman John Darnielle recounting the Biblical story of Jonah, recast with a Southern twist and ostensibly set on the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama. “I’m on a balcony in Mobile, Alabama, waiting for the wind to throw me down,” Darnielle sings, “Lord, if you won’t keep me safe and warm/Then send down...
- 4/19/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Musicians and celebrities will discuss songs that are meaningful to them on Duet, a new Spotify show launching Thursday.
As part of Spotify’s Music + Talk, each pairing will choose songs based on a theme interwoven throughout every episode. Mavis Staples and Yola will kick off the first episode by sharing songs for difficult times, while the second episode features Nick Kroll and Ayo Edebiri on songs to calm an anxious mind. Later episodes include Big Freedia and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Shangela highlighting songs from pivotal moments, as well...
As part of Spotify’s Music + Talk, each pairing will choose songs based on a theme interwoven throughout every episode. Mavis Staples and Yola will kick off the first episode by sharing songs for difficult times, while the second episode features Nick Kroll and Ayo Edebiri on songs to calm an anxious mind. Later episodes include Big Freedia and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Shangela highlighting songs from pivotal moments, as well...
- 2/17/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The burst of creativity from John Darnielle, the word-swilling frontman and piercing singer-songwriter behind the North Carolina-based Mountain Goats, has not receded one bit in recent years. Quite the opposite: After successive full band triumphs with the noir-roots of 2017’s Goths and the wizardly wistfulness of 2018’s In League With Dragons, Darnielle is now entering the fourth decade of his recording career with a pair of 2020 albums.
If this year’s earlier Songs For Pierre Chuvin harkened back to Darnielle’s early All Hail West Texas-era days as a solo boombox savant,...
If this year’s earlier Songs For Pierre Chuvin harkened back to Darnielle’s early All Hail West Texas-era days as a solo boombox savant,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
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 musical chug, and finds frontman John Darnielle tracing the journey of a recently divorced woman who decides to drive around the country and take photos of her wedding dress in various locales: A truck stop in New Mexico, a Burger King parking lot in Dallas, and a roadside in the middle of nowhere. “It may...
The song boasts a steady and serene musical chug, and finds frontman John Darnielle tracing the journey of a recently divorced woman who decides to drive around the country and take photos of her wedding dress in various locales: A truck stop in New Mexico, a Burger King parking lot in Dallas, and a roadside in the middle of nowhere. “It may...
- 10/13/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats appear as bobbleheads in the quirky new video for “Get Famous,” a track off their upcoming album Getting Into Knives.
Described by John Darnielle as a “Mott the Hoople-inspired jaunt,” the track explores the pitfalls of fame. Ray Donovan showrunner David Hollander directed the video, using custom-made bobbleheads. “You were born for these flashing lights/You were born for these endless nights,” Darnielle sings, his bobblehead predictably shaking with each line. “You always knew sooner or later/You were destined for something greater.”
“I met John...
Described by John Darnielle as a “Mott the Hoople-inspired jaunt,” the track explores the pitfalls of fame. Ray Donovan showrunner David Hollander directed the video, using custom-made bobbleheads. “You were born for these flashing lights/You were born for these endless nights,” Darnielle sings, his bobblehead predictably shaking with each line. “You always knew sooner or later/You were destined for something greater.”
“I met John...
- 10/1/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Read: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List
Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second highest 290 points, and so on down to 44 points for number 50. More than 3,000 albums received at least one vote.
Artists, Songwriters, and Producers 9th Wonder Johntá Austin A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Mick Avory
The Kinks Glen Ballard Alice Bag Bas Jon Batiste Big Boi Beyoncé Branko Michael Brun Eric Burdon
The Animals John Cale
The...
Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second highest 290 points, and so on down to 44 points for number 50. More than 3,000 albums received at least one vote.
Artists, Songwriters, and Producers 9th Wonder Johntá Austin A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Mick Avory
The Kinks Glen Ballard Alice Bag Bas Jon Batiste Big Boi Beyoncé Branko Michael Brun Eric Burdon
The Animals John Cale
The...
- 9/22/2020
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats have dropped another new song, “Get Famous,” from their upcoming album, Getting Into Knives, out October 23rd via Merge.
“Get Famous” is a vintage bit of soulful rock & roll befitting the studio where the Mountain Goats recorded it: the legendary Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, which Sun Records founder Sam Phillips built when the original Sun Studio was no longer big enough to handle the demand. The track boasts a snappy groove bolstered by rich horns and a bubbling organ, as frontman John Darnielle sings, “Light...
“Get Famous” is a vintage bit of soulful rock & roll befitting the studio where the Mountain Goats recorded it: the legendary Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, which Sun Records founder Sam Phillips built when the original Sun Studio was no longer big enough to handle the demand. The track boasts a snappy groove bolstered by rich horns and a bubbling organ, as frontman John Darnielle sings, “Light...
- 9/14/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats have released a new song, “As Many Candles as Possible,” from what will be their second album of 2020, Getting Into Knives, out October 23rd via Merge.
The track opens with a bristling twist of guitars and rumbling drums before settling into a steady groove. A distorted crunch underpins the primarily acoustic proceedings, helping the song build to a pitch-perfect freakout, featuring Al Green’s organist Charles Hodges.
“As Many Candles as Possible” arrives with a lyric video directed by frontman John Darnielle’s wife, Lalitree Darnielle. The...
The track opens with a bristling twist of guitars and rumbling drums before settling into a steady groove. A distorted crunch underpins the primarily acoustic proceedings, helping the song build to a pitch-perfect freakout, featuring Al Green’s organist Charles Hodges.
“As Many Candles as Possible” arrives with a lyric video directed by frontman John Darnielle’s wife, Lalitree Darnielle. The...
- 8/11/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Mountain Goats performed a jaunty new song “Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light” in John Coltrane’s hometown of Hamlet, North Carolina. The clip is part of In the Water, a live session series in which musicians perform in meaningful areas of the state.
The clip features the musicians inside Hamlet Depot & Museums, a historic Victorian Queen Anne style train that was once a major hub of transportation. Frontman John Darnielle passionately speaks about Coltrane, recalling that at age 19 he would spend his paychecks at Tower Records. He purchased the...
The clip features the musicians inside Hamlet Depot & Museums, a historic Victorian Queen Anne style train that was once a major hub of transportation. Frontman John Darnielle passionately speaks about Coltrane, recalling that at age 19 he would spend his paychecks at Tower Records. He purchased the...
- 10/16/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats have digitally released their recent track “Get High and Listen to the Cure,” the B-side to the band’s “Welcome to Passaic” 7-inch. The 7-inch initially dropped in August via Merge, but the second track wasn’t available to hear online until now.
Welcome to Passaic by The Mountain Goats
The roughshod track, originally created during the sessions for the band’s 2017 album Goths, has a low-key indie rock vibe, with sparse lyrics that center on the line, “I want to get high/And listen to the Cure all night.
Welcome to Passaic by The Mountain Goats
The roughshod track, originally created during the sessions for the band’s 2017 album Goths, has a low-key indie rock vibe, with sparse lyrics that center on the line, “I want to get high/And listen to the Cure all night.
- 9/26/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The National paid tribute to late musician Daniel Johnston at a show at the White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas by performing a mash-up of their own “I Am Not in Kansas” with his classic tune “Devil Town.” The musicians took the opportunity to honor the singer, who died of a heart attack at age 58, in a clearly emotional way. The two songs included back-up vocals from Kate Stables, Hannah Georgas and Kyle Resnick.
“That was for Daniel Johnston, who left us,” The National frontman Matt Berninger told the audience after the song,...
“That was for Daniel Johnston, who left us,” The National frontman Matt Berninger told the audience after the song,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert couldn’t contain his fandom as The Mountain Goats appeared on the late night show to perform their classic 2005 track “This Year.” Colbert leapt onstage during the rendition to sing along with frontman John Darnielle, giving an impassioned performance of the tune.
The band, who also played new track “Sicilian Crest,” seemed game for the intrusion. “I asked them to play this song for me because it’s one of my favorite songs of theirs,” Colbert explained to the crowd ahead of the performance.
The band, who also played new track “Sicilian Crest,” seemed game for the intrusion. “I asked them to play this song for me because it’s one of my favorite songs of theirs,” Colbert explained to the crowd ahead of the performance.
- 7/17/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Since he first started releasing music as the Mountain Goats back in the Nineties, John Darnielle has been putting out albums at the speedy clip of a power-pop tune-machine, even as he explores fully realized concepts that might suck up a decent chunk of a lesser artist’s entire career. His last album, 2017’s Goths, warmly honored that pasty subculture; a year before that he put out Beat the Champ, an LP dedicated to another scene that peaked in the Eighties, pro wrestling’s pre-WWF “territory” days. But you...
- 4/26/2019
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle sings of prophecies, deviltry and heretics’ blood on the gentle, almost Genesis-like light rocker “Sicilian Crest,” a song off the group’s upcoming In League With Dragons LP. The song has a jaunty synthesizer part, flickering piano and skittering drumming, all swirling around Darnielle’s lilting vocal. You’ll be able to hear the song in the full context of Dragons when the LP comes out on April 24th.
“‘Sicilian Crest,’ lyrically, is more reminiscent of early Mountain Goats than anything since a couple of...
“‘Sicilian Crest,’ lyrically, is more reminiscent of early Mountain Goats than anything since a couple of...
- 4/11/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle observes a brutal crime scene in the band’s new song “Cadaver Sniffing Dog.” “Hustle up the spiral stairs, see if anything’s left up there/Teams on the scene from several stations; everybody, adjust your expectations,” he sings over a shadowy guitar riff and muted bass. “Stray clumps of hair and blood and brain, fragments of bone in the drain/Rookies trying to keep the airway clear, but the damage is too severe.”
The arrangement’s color palette expands as the track winds on,...
The arrangement’s color palette expands as the track winds on,...
- 3/4/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats aim to sculpt a new musical genre, “dragon noir,” on the band’s new album In League With Dragons, the latest LP and partial rock opera from John Darnielle’s prolific indie rock outfit.
The band recorded the 12-song In League With Dragons with producer Matt Ross-Spang at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios.
“This album began life as a rock opera about a besieged seaside community called Riversend ruled by a benevolent wizard, for which some five to seven songs were written,” Darnielle said in a statement.
“As...
The band recorded the 12-song In League With Dragons with producer Matt Ross-Spang at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios.
“This album began life as a rock opera about a besieged seaside community called Riversend ruled by a benevolent wizard, for which some five to seven songs were written,” Darnielle said in a statement.
“As...
- 1/28/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
With more podcasts to choose from than TV shows these days, it can be tough to figure out which one are worth a listen, especially when more and more keep debuting. Luckily, there are some fan favorites and newcomers creating their own unique, fun spaces this fall, and they’re definitely worth a listen.
Here are some of the pop culture podcasts we’re queueing our iTunes up for.
2017 Fall Preview: Et's Look at Film, Music, TV and More!
Queery With Cameron Esposito
Feral Audio
Premiered Aug. 5
Photo: Getty Images
Technically, this show was a summer return, but it’s still on our radar as a must-listen as new episodes continue to roll out. Comedian Cameron Esposito is a mainstay on the L.A. comedy scene, running a longtime show called Put Your Hands Together -- which is, naturally, also recorded for a podcast -- and she starred with her wife, Rhea Butcher, on the...
Here are some of the pop culture podcasts we’re queueing our iTunes up for.
2017 Fall Preview: Et's Look at Film, Music, TV and More!
Queery With Cameron Esposito
Feral Audio
Premiered Aug. 5
Photo: Getty Images
Technically, this show was a summer return, but it’s still on our radar as a must-listen as new episodes continue to roll out. Comedian Cameron Esposito is a mainstay on the L.A. comedy scene, running a longtime show called Put Your Hands Together -- which is, naturally, also recorded for a podcast -- and she starred with her wife, Rhea Butcher, on the...
- 9/29/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Before we start, here's a little primer of the key players who appear in this story. Director Rian Johnson — he of Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper, and the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi — has a history with indie folk band The Mountain Goats. Johnson directed the band's concert film, The Life of The World to Come, as well as the music video for their song "Woke Up New." Check that out below:
Ok, now that we're all on the same page, Johnson tweeted a link to a new song from The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle that's inspired by Johnson's The Last Jedi. It's called "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones," and it's just as ridiculous as it sounds. Once you hear the whole thing, you'll realize how funny it is that Johnson jokingly referred to it as "canon."
So @mountain_goats and I were joking around,...
Ok, now that we're all on the same page, Johnson tweeted a link to a new song from The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle that's inspired by Johnson's The Last Jedi. It's called "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones," and it's just as ridiculous as it sounds. Once you hear the whole thing, you'll realize how funny it is that Johnson jokingly referred to it as "canon."
So @mountain_goats and I were joking around,...
- 1/31/2017
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
It would be understandable if John Darnielle‘s freakish talent made you mad, but whatever he turns out tends to be so good, it’s hard to resist embracing his various creative endeavors. Also known as the celebrated indie act The Mountain Goats, the musician is also a gifted writer, and earned a National Book Award nomination for his debut novel “Wolf In White Van” like it was no big deal.
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- 1/30/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
I guess we now know the actual identity of “the last Jedi” mentioned in the title Star Wars: The Last Jedi – it’s the ultimate Jedi who wastes all the other Jedi and eats their bones. At least, that’s the subject of a new song composed by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, a song that The Last […]
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- 1/30/2017
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
Well, that Last Jedi thing really didn't turn out like anyone expected.
Rian Johnson, director of the next Star Wars movie, shared a new track by John Darnielle of the band The Mountain Goats on Twitter Monday morning, writing that the song — titled "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" — started as a joke, but "now it's canon." And, you know, as the man now in charge of the Skywalker Saga, he's probably allowed to make that decision. Maybe. Probably.
So @mountain_goats and I were joking...
Rian Johnson, director of the next Star Wars movie, shared a new track by John Darnielle of the band The Mountain Goats on Twitter Monday morning, writing that the song — titled "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" — started as a joke, but "now it's canon." And, you know, as the man now in charge of the Skywalker Saga, he's probably allowed to make that decision. Maybe. Probably.
So @mountain_goats and I were joking...
- 1/30/2017
- by Graeme McMillan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 2007, director Richard Kelly released a follow-up to his metaphysical head-scratcher/late-bloomer cult classic Donnie Darko — a paranoid satire titled Southland Tales that was so weird and staggeringly dense that it made his previous film look like a sitcom. The plot, if you can call it that, involved an energy crisis, the ongoing War on Terror and an impromptu sing-along of the Killers' "All These Things That I've Done"; the cast included several Saturday Night Live alumni, Justin Timberlake, a spit-curled Wallace Shawn, and Kevin Smith playing, naturally, a wizard.
- 6/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
The great, strangely stirring new Mountain Goats record Beat the Champ is ostensibly a concept album about wrestling, but it’s also an album about fandom writ large — how the seemingly trivial art forms we follow can help us learn to love, escape, and survive. The punchy single “The Legend of Chavo Guerrero” seems at first to be a ballad about the life and career of the El Paso–born wrestler, until front man/songwriter John Darnielle zooms out in the last verse: “He was my hero back when I was a kid / You let me down but Chavo never once did.” The forlorn final track “Hair Match” spells it out even more bluntly: “I loved you before I ever even knew what love was like.” John Darnielle is a man of many enthusiasms (novel-writing being his most recent one; his unflinching debut Wolf in White Van was long-listed for...
- 4/7/2015
- by Lindsay Zoladz
- Vulture
Each month, Boris Kachka will offer nonfiction and fiction book recommendations, and you should read as many of them as possible.Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle (Fsg, September 16) Okay, so this is technically a September book, but they moved the publication date at the last minute to take advantage of it being long-listed for the National Book Award. And in a landscape littered with rock stars’ literary larks, the debut novel Mountain Goats front man definitely stands out. The young narrator of this novel, horribly disfigured from a suicide attempt, convalesces by inventing a role-playing game transacted over snail-mail. A tragedy involving two players allows Darnielle to explore thorny moral questions, but most captivating is the point of view: raw and claustrophobic, like Darnielle’s own wounded lyrics, but with the traumas made visible. Nora Webster, by Colm Toíbín (Scribner, October 7)The Irishman who made subtle, moving novels...
- 10/1/2014
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
John Darnielle has been putting out music for nearly two decades as the Mountain Goats, but this week he releases an excellent new novel, Wolf in White Van, which was just long-listed for the National Book Award. The book traces backwards through the life of Sean Phillips, who — following a near-fatal incident that has left him disfigured — runs a play-by-mail role-playing game. Darnielle, an unabashed fan of heavy metal and horror films, walked us through some of his main influences1. The Texas Chain Saw MassacreMy favorite movie, in part because I wrote a paper about it once accidentally. It was fresh in my head, and then my Greek tragedy final happened, and it was an open final where you could write about anything. What happens with characters in a Greek tragedy is they see all these signs that should tell them what not to do, but they can’t read...
- 9/18/2014
- by Brian Feldman
- Vulture
When he’s not cozying up next to girlfriend Lena Dunham, Jack Antonoff is busy working on his new album.
In the August 2014 issue of GQ magazine, the 30-year-old performer opened up about his project Strange Desire and what he thinks about fellow songwriters like Taylor Swift.
Check out highlights from Jack’s interview below and for more, head over to GQ!
On the music he likes:
“I love Yeezus. I think it’s one of the coolest-sounding things ever. And I think Taylor Swift is one of the best songwriters ever…
Taylor Swift is cool, because she’s the closest thing today that hearkens to Michael Jackson—to great, great pop music. There’s a difference between her and Gaga and Katy Perry and Lily Allen and all that. It all feels throwaway, comparatively.”
On if he’s taking a break from Fun.:
“I’ll keep juggling it all.
In the August 2014 issue of GQ magazine, the 30-year-old performer opened up about his project Strange Desire and what he thinks about fellow songwriters like Taylor Swift.
Check out highlights from Jack’s interview below and for more, head over to GQ!
On the music he likes:
“I love Yeezus. I think it’s one of the coolest-sounding things ever. And I think Taylor Swift is one of the best songwriters ever…
Taylor Swift is cool, because she’s the closest thing today that hearkens to Michael Jackson—to great, great pop music. There’s a difference between her and Gaga and Katy Perry and Lily Allen and all that. It all feels throwaway, comparatively.”
On if he’s taking a break from Fun.:
“I’ll keep juggling it all.
- 7/16/2014
- GossipCenter
Chicago DJs Dani Deahl and Fei Tang had returned to Gramaphone Records many times since their first date at the venerable Lakeview record store two years ago, but when they showed up Sunday, it wasn't to spin vinyl — it was to tie the knot.
Deahl and Tang, both 30, said "I do" in front of 50-some guests Sunday afternoon in a unique ceremony Gramaphone owner Jason Bradley said was a first for the 44-year-old record shop.
(See photos of Deahl and Tang's wedding and reception below.)
With help of Big City Bride wedding planner Claire Weller, the couple added a few personal touches to the small shop, including a shocking pink aisle runner, ombre flowers and records dangling from the ceiling.
Deahl told HuffPost Chicago neither she nor Tang is religious, so getting married in a record store rather than a church or other traditional venue felt the most natural.
"We...
Deahl and Tang, both 30, said "I do" in front of 50-some guests Sunday afternoon in a unique ceremony Gramaphone owner Jason Bradley said was a first for the 44-year-old record shop.
(See photos of Deahl and Tang's wedding and reception below.)
With help of Big City Bride wedding planner Claire Weller, the couple added a few personal touches to the small shop, including a shocking pink aisle runner, ombre flowers and records dangling from the ceiling.
Deahl told HuffPost Chicago neither she nor Tang is religious, so getting married in a record store rather than a church or other traditional venue felt the most natural.
"We...
- 5/8/2013
- by Kim Bellware
- Huffington Post
Finally, some level-headed perspective on the war between Justin Bieber and those who would take his picture. The latest skirmish saw the still-teenage pop star lunge at a photographer as he exited the London hospital where he had been sent after collapsing backstage at a concert. Bieber had to be restrained, and the photo that the paparazzo captured of the incident was far more widely circulated than any normal picture would have been. Some say Bieber overreacted; others blame intruding photogs. Story: Justin Bieber Restrained by Bodyguard While Charging at Paparazzi John Darnielle, the singer-songwriter behind The
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- 3/12/2013
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A week after releasing their horn-laden new album, Transcendental Youth, John Darnielle and The Mountain Goats will embark on the first leg of their equally horn-laden fall tour. Opening the string of dates will be Matthew E. White, who wrote the horn arrangements for Youth, and whose horn section from his own 9-piece band will join The Mountain Goats during their sets. Prior to the tour—which kicks off Oct. 9 in Richmond, Virginia, and includes an Oct. 23 stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—Darnielle and company will play a covers and rarities set at the Hopscotch Music Festival Sept. 7 ...
- 7/31/2012
- avclub.com
John Darnielle says the song is about "survival but that's kind of an oversimplification, it's also about building a vehicle from the defeated pieces of the thing you survived and piloting that vehicle through the cosmos, it's kind of complicated but people who know what I'm talking about will kind of intuitively get the idea and the rest of you will I hope be able to get a sense of it through the song." Noted!
- 7/25/2012
- by Eliot Glazer
- Vulture
The Mountain Goats have released the first single from their new record, Transcendental Youth. The horn-laden “Cry For Judas” is available now both as a stream and as a free download. According to Goats’ frontman John Darnielle, the track is about “saddling up your demons and learning to ride them like devil horses with big leathery wings.” It’s also, to his knowledge, “the first song ever to feature both a swinging horn section and a line about a Baphomet drawn in chalk on an altar cloth, so everyone else who was trying to square that circle can take a ...
- 7/25/2012
- avclub.com
When he’s not busy celebrating Twitter milestones or doing the “acoustic guy rocking political jams” thing, The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle happily spends some time doing the “prepping a new album” thing. A new Mountain Goats full-length, Transcendental Youth, has just been announced for an Oct. 2 release on Merge Records. According to an appropriately wonky press release penned by John Hodgman, Youth will be “full of songs about people who madly, stupidly, blessedly won’t stop surviving, no matter who gives up on them.” Hodgman also reports that it is a “very good album,” and that it features ...
- 7/9/2012
- avclub.com
Back in November, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats commemorated reaching 25,000 Twitter followers by dropping a previously unreleased lo-fi track titled “Thucydides II-58”. And today, having just reached the milestone of 40,000 followers, Darnielle has released another old demo titled “All Devils Here Now,” which is available as a free download on The Mountain Goats’ website. The acoustic track—featuring “actual Iowa bugs” in the background—shares “psychic and geographic space” with the other material Darnielle was writing between the releases of Tallahassee and We All Shall Be Healed, and it indeed recalls the theme of discontent ...
- 7/5/2012
- avclub.com
Everett A scene from the 1970 documentary “Gimme Shelter” with Mick Jagger.
The Rolling Stones’s greatest-hits package “Hot Rocks,” released in late 1971, provided the music for an all-star charity event held last night at a sold-out Carnegie Hall. Twenty-one acts ranging in quality and invention covered the 21 songs on “Hot Rocks,” all but two of which were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
As the event began to unfold, it seemed only good will would carry the evening: Following...
The Rolling Stones’s greatest-hits package “Hot Rocks,” released in late 1971, provided the music for an all-star charity event held last night at a sold-out Carnegie Hall. Twenty-one acts ranging in quality and invention covered the 21 songs on “Hot Rocks,” all but two of which were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
As the event began to unfold, it seemed only good will would carry the evening: Following...
- 3/14/2012
- by Jim Fusilli
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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