The Mountain Goats

Ed Sheeran shatters The Mountain Goats' hopes of playing <i>SNL</i>

Ed Sheeran shatters The Mountain Goats' hopes of playing SNL

Sheeran was released from COVID isolation and is still slated to play SNL on November 6

Tatiana Tenreyro

PublishedNovember 2, 2021

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C’mon, Lorne Michaels, let The Mountain Goats replace Ed Sheeran on <i>SNL</i>

C’mon, Lorne Michaels, let The Mountain Goats replace Ed Sheeran on SNL

Ed Sheeran tested positive for COVID and likely can't play SNL anymore, so Mountain Goats are volunteering to do it

Tatiana Tenreyro

PublishedOctober 26, 2021

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Mountain Goats announce new album, <i>Dark In Here</i>, recorded just as the pandemic hit

Mountain Goats announce new album, Dark In Here, recorded just as the pandemic hit

Even for the famously prolific indie band The Mountain Goats, it sounds like March of last year was one hell of a…

Alex McLevy

PublishedApril 19, 2021

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"Four Seasons Total Landscaping" is now a Mountain Goats song, as it was always meant to be

We would like to issue a formal apology to everyone we ever rolled our eyes at for suggesting that the Trump era…

William Hughes

PublishedNovember 11, 2020

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5 new releases we love: The Mountain Goats deliver, and No Thank You achieves indie-rock greatness

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…

PublishedOctober 23, 2020

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The Mountain Goats are <i>Getting Into Knives</i> this fall

The Mountain Goats are Getting Into Knives this fall

Roughly four months to the day that Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle dropped Songs For Pierre Chuvin, his first…

PublishedAugust 11, 2020

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Mountain Goats' John Darnielle shares <i>Songs For Pierre Chuvin,</i> his first "boombox" LP since 2002

Mountain Goats' John Darnielle shares Songs For Pierre Chuvin, his first "boombox" LP since 2002

For as good as a lot of Mountain Goats’ latter-day releases are, some will assert that the band has never surpassed…

PublishedApril 10, 2020

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What’s the best mixtape you’ve ever received?

This week’s question comes from web producer Baraka Kaseko:

PublishedMarch 14, 2020

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Bewildering genius John Darnielle thinks the best part of <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> is rolling for stats

Bewildering genius John Darnielle thinks the best part of Dungeons & Dragons is rolling for stats

Updated, October 18, 7:25 p.m.: Highly relevant information:

Allison Shoemaker

PublishedOctober 18, 2019

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Watch Stephen Colbert make it through "This Year" with The Mountain Goats

Any morbid Mountain Goats fan (and there are a lot of us) will tell you there’s no greater pleasure than to belt out…

PublishedJuly 17, 2019

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<i>You’re The Worst</i> creator Stephen Falk on the show’s emotional finale

You’re The Worst creator Stephen Falk on the show’s emotional finale

This post discusses plot elements of You’re The Worst’s season finale

Erik Adams

PublishedApril 3, 2019

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What’s a song you love but found from an unexpected source?

This week’s question comes after the revelation that one of the few original songs Lauryn Hill has released in the…

PublishedMarch 1, 2019

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The Mountain Goats are back to soundtrack your D&D campaign, plus more of this week’s top music recs

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…

PublishedFebruary 1, 2019

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Hell yeah, The Mountain Goats' new album is a noir about a wizard

On the heels of announcing a massive North American tour, The Mountain Goats have announced a nerdy-as-hell new…

PublishedJanuary 28, 2019

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The Mountain Goats are going on a big tour

Here’s some good news for fans of The Mountain Goats, which is probably most people who are reading an A.V. Club stor…

Sam Barsanti

PublishedJanuary 22, 2019

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