Brooklyn Vegan — The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle has been keeping busy with some literary pursuits in addition to his musical ones. In the gap between the releases of the 2012 Mountain Goats album Transcendental Youth and 2015's Beat the Champ, Darnielle... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The shortlist for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize has been announced. Christianity Today interviewed John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats. eBook on sale for $2.99 today: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin SPIN profiled singer-songwr... more info

Consequence of Sound — A story set in a Video Hut in late-'90s Iowa that "hits that sad/frightening axis." more info

Stereogum — If you’ve been paying attention to the Mountain Goats, you’ve known for many years that frontman John Darnielle is a great, great writer. But the literary world learned it for themselves in 2014, when Darnielle published his excellent novel Wolf ... more info

Stereogum — John Darnielle’s 2014 debut novel Wolf In White Van was a huge success, so it should come as no surprise that the Mountain Goats frontman is following it up with another. His next book is called Universal Harvester, and it’ll be out in February. ... more info

NME — The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, Larie Anderson, Cyndi Lauper and more also feature more info

Stereogum — Amazon Prime released a compilation album today titled Songs Of Summer, which includes contributions from Baio, Blitzen Trapper, the Mountain Goats, Brandi Carlile, and many more. The Staves — whose 2015 release If I Was made it onto our 50 Best Al... more info

Rolling Stone — Portland, Oregon-based country-rock band Blitzen Trapper have recorded the new song "Summer Rain" for the forthcoming Amazon Sounds of Summer playlist, which will be available on June 3rd. Along with Blitzen Trapper, the playlist features new recordi... more info

Consequence of Sound — John Darnielle & co. revisit the '70s on this smooth rendition. more info

Stereogum — The Mountain Goats have recorded a cover of War’s “Summer” for their contribution to Amazon Music’s new Songs Of Summer playlist, which also contains new material from Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio, Surfer Blood, Laura Gibson, Blitzen Trappe... more info