Features
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best 60 Albums of 2009
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best Singles of 2009
PopMatters kicks off our annual two-week-long best music of the year feature with the 50 best singles of 2009, highlighted by a trio of American indie rock headliners.
Wednesday, December 9 2009
The Best Singer-Songwriter Albums of 2009
We got it all in 2009. The stuff right here -- this is singing, this is songwriting. It lives, it breathes, and it bites. Hard.
Tuesday, November 3 2009
Get Holy: An Interview With John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats
Upon the release of the Mountain Goats' latest album, the band's founder and songwriter talks about the literary influences on his prolific output and the biblical theme of his latest opus.
Friday, December 19 2008
The Best Albums of 2008
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2008, highlighted by the return of British trip-hop legends and some infectious American indie rock by way of the Cascade Mountains.
Columns
Friday, April 18 2008
Into the Void: John Darnielle on Sabbath, Extreme Metal, and Indie Rock
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.
Reviews
Wednesday, March 30 2011
The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
The ever-prolific and always compelling John Darnielle returns with another batch of songs haunted in ways both literal and metaphorical.
Monday, October 5 2009
The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come
America's best currently working songwriter tackles the Bible with surprisingly and gratifyingly diverse results.
Tuesday, February 19 2008
The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride
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.
Thursday, August 24 2006
The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely
Do goats get lonely? John Darnielle attempts to explain on the latest bucket drawn from his bottomless song well.
Monday, April 18 2005
The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree
John Darnielle tears into his past and paws through the bloody remains, creating a powerful set of songs from the viscera.
Blogs
Monday, January 4 2010
The Mountain Goats' Tiny Desk Concert on NPR (video)
That crazed devil-on-a-rollercoaster look that John Darnielle gets on his face when his songs get going is more than enough to calm (or amplify, I…
Wednesday, July 29 2009
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come (new album / MP3)
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…
