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

Brooklyn Vegan — Mountain Goats main man John Darnielle has always been a storyteller, it's a wonder he's never written a book before now. Yet Wolf In White Van is his first novel. It's out on Tuesday (9/16) via Farrar, Straus and... more info

Stereogum — John Darnielle recently announced he will be going on a tour to do readings from his upcoming book Wolf In White Van. Now you can listen to some of it yourself. Below you can hear the first 10 minutes of the audiobook read by Darnielle himself. Wolf ... more info

Stereogum — Fans of the Mountain Goats have surely been wishing/waiting for this moment for a long time: John Darnielle recently announced plans to release his first novel, titled Wolf In White Van, and now he will be doing a book tour for it. Be aware, though, ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Katey Schultz discussed self-funding the book tour for her short story collection at The Billfold. Stereogum listed the best Tori Amos songs. BuzzFeed recommended indie comics. The Denton Record-Chonicle breaks down the Mountain Goats song "The Best ... more info