Artist Lounge: The Mountain Goats
enlarge
The Mountain Goats Albums
View Albums >The Mountain Goats Biography
Source: Wikipedia
The Mountain Goats is a band led by prolific American singer-songwriter John Darnielle. Darnielle began recording in 1991, and has become known for his highly literary lyrics and, until 2002, his lo-fi recording style. Currently, when the band plays live, it comprises John Darnielle, Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster, but Darnielle has worked with a number of other musicians when recording albums under the Mountain Goats name.
The Mountain Goats Links
-
hypem.com
Search blogs for The Mountain Goats songs
-
www.mountain-goats.com
Official Mountain Goats Site
-
www.themountaingoats.net
themountaingoats.net
-
3bos.com
Information Site by a Previous Label
-
www.lastplanetojakarta.com
Last Plane To Jakarta, John Darnielle's zine
-
www.fivetools.com
Five Tools
-
www.archive.org
Mountain Goats shows
-
www.timmcmahan.com
Lazy-i Interview: November 2002
-
prettyfakes.com
"Darnielle on the Edge of Town"
-
www.youtube.com
Mountain Goats video for ''Woke Up New''
-
sixeyes.blogspot.com
John Darnielle interview
-
sixeyes.blogspot.com
John Darnielle interview
Moggers' favorites by The Mountain Goats
Subscribe to feed
-
-
Posted by:
A clock-measured 2:00AM won't seem bigger than other hours; experience alone convinces you of its power to grow long, into loops ignited by small bad thoughts. It's waker's choice - need to mow the lawn, leave her, tell them all the truth? You're safe here to sift it through. Gather up records and vices for the dark duration and forget that Zopilote Machine tried to warn you: there are worse things to lose than sleep. Because then the fucking sun comes up, and yeah, morn... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
I would just like to take a moment to say that I have recently fallen in love with what I suppose must be described as folk rock. I have mentioned some examples in my previous two posts and you should check them all out, but at this moment in time I would like to draw your attention to a song I heard on the radio on my way home:
Autoclave by The Mountain Goats
Simple and beautiful.
I love his description "I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam"
The song runs ... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride (4AD)
eight out of ten stars I love John Darnielle’s songs. He writes from the heart. So how could I review his new album, Heretic Pride from my head? There will be little deep analysis or calculated critique here. Listening to his songs feels like sitting on a ledge, waiting to cry. His albums don’t always make me cry but they always, at the very least, push me to the edge. Darnielle writes with such honesty about his life, his exp... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
The Mountain Goats, 'Sax Rohmer #1' is available free at spinner.com. The new album will be out shortly.
-
-
-
Posted by:
OMG . I know i must sound like a broken record, but John Darnielle continues to be the only thing inspiring me to blog (yeah, it takes a lot). I swear, i'm listening to lots of other great stuff (lately: great lake swimmers, band of horses, arcade fire, iron&wine, Thao Nguyen, Emmy the Great).
This song just breaks my heart and i can't get it out of my head. For those of you not literate with our national pastime, "cubs in 5" is almost as likely as "when pigs fly". The ... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
Minnesota Public Radio asked The Mountain Goats to write a Super Tuesday song and the Goats came through. The song they wrote is called "Down to the Ark" and while it doesn't specify which candidate they endorse it does have a distinct biblical tone. You can read the lyrics at Tiny Mix Tapes and download the mp3 from Public Radio's website:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/The-Mountain-Goats-Pen-Song-for
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/01/31/mtng... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
Things happen to us, and because of the amount of space between the two of them, Tom Spanbauer would call it propinquity, we can't help but meld them together. What does School Prayer have to do with the Mountain Goats? How can the concept of School Prayer and all of the free speech issues it brings up be linked up, connected, referred to indirectly in the same sentence as John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats? Just what is the
connection exactly? We can ... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
The new Mountain Goats album, Heretic Pride, is due out Feb. 19. The last album, 2006's Get Lonely, was one of the best albums of that year. Here's a track off the new one.
-
-
-
Posted by:
Many break-up songs seek glue, adhesive for all of these pieces. The Mountain Goats have a library full of them; John Darnielle knows nothing's lonelier than pockets failing hands no longer held. Nothing, that is, but the hands still crushing your throat. "No Children" lives just here, beneath the weight of what we once wanted. The song feeds on anger and terror but does not breed it. If you live with either, give yourself this gift: standing at a Mountain Goats sho... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
Last night I downloaded the new Mountain Goats album, Heretic Pride (yes, I do intend on buying it) and I am so glad that John Darnielle has managed to produce yet another stunning record. I don't want to use the phrase 'their best yet' because I've only listened to it twice through, and because that's a very grand statement, but it is definitely a contender in my opinion.
The album comes across as slightly more upbeat than previous ones, but the lyrics are mostly typi... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
Yes, i'm still loving the hypeM. Some nice updates. I no longer see a really easy way to pull hyped content out of my IE cache (like you can do for streamed windows media stuff). Of course it's still possible to add hyped stuff to your local mp3 collection, but hopefully by making it harder they've decreased the likelihood of legal action. My favorite update is that you can customize your dashboard with your favorite blogs and stream music just from those blogs. Eve... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
This week brought illness and funerals; 2008's first air thick with loss & so many plans unmade. Bound tight with regret I leave West Texas through high painted deserts, days straight, lanes wide. The way the land empties you. Alpine, El Paso, Tuscon I sleep by the roadside, half-wild in unbreaking darkness. We're making good time, I think and then remember I'm in no hurry to get back to what's gone. I'll take pictures of burnt out motels, I'll call in sick to work, ... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
So, last weekend I went to see The Mountain Goats at the Union Chapel (which is an amazing venue and it was an amazing show - all of you who didn't go will probably regret it in years to come). My friend Jo did think it was in poor taste, being that we were in a chapel, for TMG to pull up Eddie Argos for the finale to sing The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out Of Denton (I am sure you can see the horror of this on YouTube if you are interested), but luckily, God did not s... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
Bottom of the Hill is a venue for live music in San Francisco that looks like it's in the bottom of someone's house. There's a small stage, framed with those little Christmas lights, an outdoor pattio and a pool table covered in stickers. It's a nice little place to go see music. I used to think that Bottom of the Hill was a clever name because a lot of relatively unknown bands play there, and the name symbolizes the hill the band is going to have to battle to achieve su... MORE
-
-
-
Posted by:
I love when bands include Alaska on their tour maps. But, I don't know of any non-Alaskan bands who have ever started their US tour from the arctic state! It's possible that Mountain Goats will be the first to do so. John Darnielle and friends announced a west coast US tour that starts in Anchorage, stops in B.C. and heads south to West Hollywood. The fun starts on February 19th and continues until March 5th with Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters supporting in the lower 48.
... MORE
-
