Brooklyn Vegan — The annual San Francisco festival also includes Janet Jackson, The Weeknd, Future, Jamie xx, Huey Lewis & the News, Mac DeMarco, Tycho, Father John Misty, Broken Social Scene, Perfume Genius, The Mountain Goats, Amen Dunes, and more. Continue reading... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Onion Comedy & Arts Festival runs May 30 - June 3 at various Chicago venues. Also performing: Chris Gethard, Scott Thompson, tapings of podcasts Judge John Hodgman, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, Hollywood Handbook, and Bitch Sesh, plus Tom... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Signature previewed March's best new books. Andrew Bird covered the Mountain Goats' "Distant Stations." February's best eBook deals. The JC interviewed author Laura Lippman. Drowned in Sound reconsidered the Cure's Pornography album. eBook on sale fo... more info

Stereogum — The stand-up comic John Hodgman and the underground rap veteran Jean Grae host a monthly variety show called Jean And John together at the Brooklyn venue the Bell House. It apparently has a game-show component and a live house band and everything. As... more info

Stereogum — Some intrepid soul has mashed up the Mountain Goats' cathartic The Sunset Tree standout "This Year" with another song of equal artistic ambition: the theme song to the 1996 motion picture Space Jam, composed by Quad City DJ's. It's unclear who made t... more info

Stereogum — The Mountain Goats-centric podcast I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats is still ticking along. Each episode features a cover, and so far we've gotten them from the likes of Laura Jane Grace, Craig Finn, Mothers, and Loamlands. The latest episode lo... more info

Stereogum — We named Mothers a Band To Watch two years ago based on the strength of their excellent single "No Crying In Baseball" and debut album When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired . We suspect that the band will release a new album next year, and inc... more info

Chorus.fm — The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn has shared a cover of The Mountain Goats’ “Fault Lines.” more info

Stereogum — The Hold Steady's Craig Finn and the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle are two of the greatest living lyricists in American music, they both always make amazing faces when they're performing, and they've long been mutual admirers. The two posed together... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Granta listed books that changed the world. The Mountain Goats covered Sisters of Mercy's "Lucretia My Reflection." Minneapolis City Pages interviewed the band's frontman John Darnielle. 26 year-end book lists were added to Largehearted Boy’s ... more info