THE FOG rolls up the mountain, hiding the old-growth forest below us and smothering any hopes we might have had of spotting a ...

HIKING down the mountain, butterflies fluttering past, the sound of moo-sic fills the air. It seems the native black Hérens ...

The Watkin Path starts in woodland that gives way to beautiful views of Nant Gwynant before reaching a cascade of waterfalls ...

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 to seeing is The Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle. He’s shared his ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 Mountain Goats fan has heard ...

When the Mountain Goats play in Portland, it always feels a little bit like a hometown show. Frontman John Darnielle spent just a year of his adult life here, in 1985, during the period that inspired ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. 'This Year: 365 Songs Annotated' is an annotated collection of some of the songwriter's most legendary lyrics, but it's so much more than ...

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 ...

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 ...