The Mountain Goats and the Evolution of Our Idols
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle is adept at carving patterns, often creating threads in his music by returning to idols that are both familiar and ever-evolving.
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The Mountain Goats’ Musical Theatre Storytelling in ‘Jenny From Thebes’
Can the Mountain Goats’ uncompromisingly oblique and challengingly uncommercial Jenny From Thebes become a fully-staged Jennymusical?
The Mountain Goats Go to the Movies
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle has been a cinephile all his life, but he never created an album about the movies until this year’s thrilling Bleed Out.
Why the Mountain Goats’ ‘All Hail West Texas’ Will—In Time—Both Outpace and Outlive You
Twenty years old, John Darnielle’s unique, emotion-driven songwriting gave the Mountain Goats’ All Hail West Texas unrivaled staying power.
Fact and Fiction: The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Wrestling and the Creative Process
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on the “most musically interesting record by a country mile”, the wrestling-themed album Beat the Champ.