The Mountain Goats News

In this week's paper, Annie Zaleski extols the virtues of the Toronto-based Rural Alberta Advantage , comparing the three-piece to everyone from Yo La Tengo to The Mountain Goats and Arcade Fire to Neutral Milk Hotel.

Nothing says "24 Hour Charity Marathon!" quite like a 6 a.m. performance from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

Music history is littered with under-appreciated power-pop bands and records that deserved better.

Manchester Orchestra performs their two singles plus an awesome cover of The Mountain Goats - check it out now!... Manchester Orchestra - Play All Biography As led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Andy Hull, the maturity of Manchester Orchestra's songwriting belied the fact that the bandmembers were barely legal when their group sprung into ...

Zach Elliott, a 20-year-old Jacksonville native, sings and plays guitar for Honey Chamber, a local indie band with a psych-pop edge.

Skip the tree lighting and go celebrate brooklyntheborough.com's relaunch tonight with an Aeroplane Pageant set at Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St.

Posted By: Justin Richards It's sometimes said about Morrissey that he is an artist without any casual fans, but this is an exaggeration.

Goat head John Darnielle Adding drums to your two-man indie lit-folk thing recalls what Chekhov said about pistols hanging on walls: Eventually, they'd best to go off.

Not straying far from their Brooklyn home, garage-pop four piece Darlings performs tonight with Dynasties, Video Daughters and Equestrians at Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave.

Final Fantasy played Webster Hall - announces 2010 tour dates in support of new Domino Records album Final Fantasy @ Webster Hall - December 1st, 2009 Owen Pallett aka Final Fantasy concludes his tour with The Mountain Goats at The Bell House in Brooklyn tonight .

John Darnielle, the lead singer of the Mountain Goats, has a famously devoted following , and the band's new album, The Life of the World to Come , is teeming with religious references: Every song is named after a Bible verse.

The Mountain Goats @ Webster Hall in November 2008 I'm making an effort to post "What's Going "On" first thing each day.

Owen Pallett , better known as Final Fantasy , is very much in demand these days.

Enter to win tickets to see The Mountain Goats with Final Fantasy on Tuesday, December 1st at Webster Hall! The Mountain Goats' first recordings were covers of songs by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

FRIDAY: Thanksgiving is a time for family, for togetherness, for sitting in weird podunk airports for hours waiting for a connecting flight that may never come.

Little introduction is needed for that maven of cult followership, that original espouser of the effed narrative, that yelper of the adventures of the disturbed you know all too well, The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle .

In June, lo-fi innovator and New Zealand music legend Chris Knox suffered a debilitating stroke.

In one of his most popular songs, John Darnielle, frontman for folk-rock group the Mountain Goats, chants 'Hail Satan' with a televangelist's gusto.

Review by WW's food and theater critic Ben Waterhouse. John Darnielle was in a good mood last night.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS The Life of the World to Come To say Mountain Goats writer, composer, guitarist and vocalist John Darnielle is prolific is an understatement: He has played with or been credited in eight bands, and the Mountain Goats themselves have around 30 distinct releases, 17 of which are albums.