Like a Canadian looking for any opportunity to point out an actor or musician is Canadian, any Portland-based Mountain Goats obsessive will leap at the chance to tell you just how much the Rose City ...

Revered singer-songwriter John Darnielle has been leading the Mountain Goats since the mid-1990s, putting out brilliant albums like 2002’s ‘Tallahassee’ and 2019’s ‘In League With Dragons.’ He’s also ...

With 23 albums to choose from, getting into The Mountain Goats can seem like an insurmountable task for the casual listener. But the truth is, not even the most hardcore ...

Songs Annotated' is an annotated collection of some of The Mountain Goats singer-songwriter John Darnielle's most legendary ...

Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.

The Mountain Goats will be bringing their distinct indie-folk sound to the Knitting Factory on Friday. Singer-songwriter John Darnielle founded the band in Claremont, California, in 1991. Initially, ...

As we close in on the end of 2025, year end list season is in full swing, and one person who’s picks we always look forward ...

The musical tale of three shipwrecked souls makes for an unusually linear Mountain Goats record, full of powerful moments that not even the eternally moving John Darnielle can scrape into the whole it ...

In “This Year,” Darnielle adds notes and explanations to three decades’ worth of his strange, startling, funny and often beautiful words ...

The Durham musician’s new book, “This Year: 365 Songs Annotated,” is a close read of some of The Mountain Goats most ...

Going into the new Mountain Goats album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, it was hard to know what to expect. 2023’s Jenny from Thebes and 2022’s Bleed Out hadn’t blown this reviewer away ...