The Mountain Goats news

American band The Mountain Goats are touring Australia, and stopped by the RN Drive studio for a song and a conversation.

-- On May 6, Merge is throwing the Concert to Defeat Amendment One at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, N.C. (Merge co-founder Mac McCaughan and the Mountain Goats supported the cause in Durham last month .) The concert will feature performances from Bob Mould, Superchunk (acoustic), David Cross, Stuart McLamb of the Love Language, Tig Notaro, and more. -- In the Belly of the Brazen Bull is ...

John Darnielle is reissuing Mountain Goats cassettes from 1992 and 1993, as Exclaim! points out . Hound Chronicles and Hot Garden Stomp will be available as a compilation digitally or via CD through Shrimper on June 26.

Local musicians have joined forces against Amendment One, the controversial North Carolina constitutional amendment that’s up for a vote on May 8. Tonight, Mac McCaughan, Superchunk frontman and co-founder of Merge Records, takes the stage with The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle and Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright to raise money to help strike the amendment down.

Photo by Elisabeth Vitale Master arranger and solo musician Owen Pallett , who's worked with everyone from Arcade Fire to the Mountain Goats to Hollywood short filmmakers , can add a new collaborator to his list: Linkin Park . According to an interview the band recently did with Spin , Pallett contributes strings to a track called "I'll Be Gone" from their upcoming album.

Aside from having a hilarious Twitter account , The Mountain Goats are also an indie rock band, and they’ve teamed up with Owen Pallett for a special performance of some new material, accompanied by classical vocalist quartet Anonymous 4 , the most angelic-voiced group of substitute teachers you’ll ever hear.

Last week, the Mountain Goats performed a special set as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival in Manhattan. As reported , John Darnielle was joined by classical vocal quartet Anonymous 4 and Owen Pallett to debut songs from a new song cycle called Transcendental Youth .

, the most angelic-voiced group of substitute teachers you’ll ever hear. 90 minutes in length, Anonymous 4 kicks things off with a few songs that will transport you back to a time of stone churches, chainmail, and daily immolations, before handing things over to The Goats’ John Darnielle, who premieres some new material from a cycle called Transcendental Youth , as well as some old favorites and ...

Hear a show by a very unlikely pairing, live from the aptly named Ecstatic Music Festival: Indie icons meet up with a crystal-pure classical vocal quartet.

Hear a transcendent show by a very unlikely pairing from the aptly named Ecstatic Music Festival: Indie icons meet up with a crystal-pure classical vocal quartet.

Hear a transcendent show by a very unlikely pairing from the aptly named Ecstatic Music Festival: Indie icons meet up with a crystal-pure classical vocal quartet.