Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Ides of Gemini at Webster Hall in 2013 (more by Lukas Hodge) The Mountain Goats are set to tour this year, hitting NYC on April 9 at Webster Hall, and April 11 & 12 at City Winery, all three... more info

Stereogum — Simon Joyner’s got the life. Since he first rose to prominence two decades ago, rubbing lo-fi elbows with the Mountain Goats and Will Oldham, Joyner has quietly lived and worked in Omaha with his wife and three kids, releasing delicate, poetic musi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the six Bjork 1/bjorks_new_albu.html">shows at Carnegie Hall and City Center go on sale today at 11AM. Tickets for the Rush shows at Prudential Center and MSG go on VIP presale today at 10AM. Tickets for David Byrne's... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — A new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie short story. Stream a new Mountain Goats song. 38 online "best books of 2014" lists were added to the master aggregation at Largehearted Boy last week. The Largehearted Boy list of essential and interesting "best... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Mountain Goats are going on a tour that hits NYC on April 9 at Webster Hall and April 11 & 12 at City Winery. Tickets for the Webster Hall show are on BrooklynVegan presale now, using the password:... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Mountain Goats will release their fifteenth album, Beat the Champ, on April 7 via Merge. Main man John Darnielle says the album is inspired by wrestling. Here's more:The wrestling songs, several of which, surprise surprise, are really more... more info

Stereogum — For more than two decades, ever since it was just John Darnielle and a boom box, the Mountain Goats have been cranking out new music at crazy speed. But now it’s been more than two years since the band released Transcendental Youth, their last albu... more info

Stereogum — Split Single is a supergroup of sorts: The band consists of drummer Jon Wurster from Superchunk and the Mountain Goats, Britt Daniel of Spoon, and frontman Jason Narducy from Bob Mould’s band, Superchunk, and the owner of some outrageously sexy elb... more info

Stereogum — The Mountain Goats’ mastermind John Darnielle recently released his debut novel, Wolf In White Van, to really good reviews. (You can hear the first few minutes of the audiobook version, read by Darnielle himself, right here.) The New York Times rep... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette remembered Michael Chabon's punk band, The Bats. Morning Edition interviewed Nick Cave. The Detroit Metro Times interviewed Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. Indy Week interviewed John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats a... more info