Articles tagged "the mountain goats"

Mixed Media

The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come (new album / MP3)

by PopMatters Staff

[29.Jul.09] :. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD) Releasing: 6 October (US) SONG LIST 01 1 Samuel 15:23 02 Psalms 40:2 03 Genesis 3:23 04 Philippians 3:20-21 05 Hebrews 11:40 06 Genesis...

Mixed Media

 

Column: Blood and Thunder

Into the Void: John Darnielle on Sabbath, Extreme Metal, and Indie Rock

by Adrien Begrand

[18.Apr.08] :. Begrand dives into metal fandom with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, who discusses the Mighty Riff, the uneasy relationship between indie and metal camps, and the life experiences behind his new book on Black Sabbath's Master of Reality.

Recent columns

 

Music Review

The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride

by Matthew Fiander

[19.Feb.08] :. John Darnielle has always been excitable, but on Heretic Pride he busts at the seams, giving us a record as infectiously frantic as it is dark and brooding.

Recent Music reviews

 

Music Feature

Searching for John Darnielle

by Brian Heater

[11.Jan.07] :. The details of the Mountain Goats leader's life remain surprisingly vague for a confessional singer-songwriter.

Recent features

 

Music Review

The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely

by Michael Metivier

[24.Aug.06] :. Do goats get lonely? John Darnielle attempts to explain on the latest bucket drawn from his bottomless song well.

Recent Music reviews

 

Music Review

The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree

by Peter Funk

[18.Apr.05] :. John Darnielle tears into his past and paws through the bloody remains, creating a powerful set of songs from the viscera.

Recent Music reviews

 

The Mountain Goats: We Shall All Be Healed

by David Antrobus

[27.Jul.04] :. Mountain Goats have just added a further chapter in an ongoing saga of (micro) relationships examined against a backdrop of (macro) global concern, We Shall All Be Healed being the most explicit yet.

 

The Mountain Goats: Tallahassee

by Dave Heaton

[6.Dec.02] :. At the beginning of this year, the Mountain Goats released All Hail West Texas, an album recorded at home on a nearly-broken down machine and covered with fuzz. Now, near the end of the year,...

 

The Mountian Goats: Ghana

by Jeremy Schneyer

[18.Jun.02] :. John Darnielle writes lots of songs. However, unlike, say, Bob Pollard, who also writes lots of songs (half of which are brilliant and half of which are crap), the vast majority of Darnielle’s...

 

The Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas

by Jeremy Schneyer

[29.Mar.02] :. There’s something to be said for perseverance. For the better part of the last 10 years, John Darnielle, AKA The Mountain Goats (yes, we know, there’s only one of him, but somehow...

 

    The Mountain Goats: The Coroner’s Gambit

by Charles Marshall

[16.Oct.00] :. The Mountain Goats are a veritable army of one, generaled by Colo, Iowa resident John Darnielle. His weapons of choice are a Panasonic boom box and an acoustic guitar, and his lo-fi recordings peg...