Brooklyn Vegan — The Mountain Goats have announced their follow-up to 2015's Beat the Champ and fourth album for Merge. Goths is out on May 19 and its lead single, staying on point with the LP title, is "Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back to Leeds." Eldrich, if you ... more info

Stereogum — A couple of weeks ago, the Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle published Universal Harvester , his second novel (or, if you count the novella he published about a kid in a psychiatric hospital who needs his Black Sabbath tape to survive -- which ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The tour includes a three-night run at NYC's Beacon Theatre. Jason also has a new album ready. Continue reading… more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Literary Hub recommended fifteen works of modern literature by and about refugees. Stream a new Mountain Goats song. Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Jon Raymond's new novel Freebird. Catapult interviewed poet Morgan Parker. Stream a new Moon Duo ... more info

Consequence of Sound — What started as a joke between The Mountain Goats frontman and the Star Wars director is now a real thing. more info

Stereogum — Twitter has been responsible a number of unexpected yet excellent musical collaborations, typically born out of artists tweeting admiration for one another from across the Internet (see: the forthcoming Car Seat Headrest/Smash Mouth split EP), and to... more info

KEXP Seattle — Pitchfork is launching a new series titled Our First 100 Days, and the first track comes from Angel Olsen. Check out the exclusive new track “Fly on Your Wall” below. There will be 99 more songs to come from artists including, Ty Segall, Protomar... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Barack Obama discussed books and writing with the New York Times. Our First Hundred Days will feature an unreleased song every day (by Mitski, the Mountain Goats, and others) for the first 100 days of the Trump administration. 35 "best... more info

Consequence of Sound — Angel Olsen, Mitski, Mountain Goats, Toro Y Moi, Jens Lekman, Will Oldham, Bully, and more contribute. more info

Stereogum — Our First 100 Days is a charity project that will release one new song per day for the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency. Artists such as Angel Olsen, Mitski, Toro Y Moi, the Mountain Goats, How To Dress Well, PWR BTTM, Strand Of Oaks, the ... more info