LargeHeartedBoy — Stream Sharon Van Etten's new album, Tramp, at NPR. The Panel Borders podcast interviews cartoonist Craig Thompson about his graphic novel Habibi. Mountain Xpress profiles John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats. The Mountain Goats originated with Darni... more info

Stereogum — The Mountain Goats are currently touring through the Southern states, and they’re using the occasion to debut a few songs from a forthcoming album, which could be called Transcendental Youth, and which frontman John Darnielle has referred to as “... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats talks about his new songs with the Austin American-Statesman. In an essay titled "The Agony of the Male Novelist" at Salon, Teddy Wayne responds to Jennifer Weiner's recent blog post on gender bias in... more info

Stereogum — A couple of days ago, Wye Oak covered “Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day” for the A.V. Club’s Holiday Undercover video series, in which bands cover Christmas tunes. And now their Merge labelmates the Mountain Goats — or really just le... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Mountain Goats at Bowery Ballroom in March (more by Ryan Barkan) Michael Dorf's (founder of Knitting Factory) series of tribute concerts to benefit music education programs for underprivileged youth (which last paid tribute to Neil Y... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — At the A.V. Club, Superchunk and Mountain Goats drummer Jon Wurster recommends seven rock documentaries. The Huffington Post lists the top YA book-to-film adaptations. At the New York Review of Books Charles Baxter reviews Haruki Murakami's new novel... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Ecstatic Music Festival is returning to the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center from February 4 to March 28. The festival includes 11 shows over the course of the approximate two month period including performances by Richard Reed... more info

Stereogum — The Mountain Goats usually maintain a freaky level of productiveness, but frontman John Darnielle became a dad a few months ago (congrats, sir!), and I wasn’t expecting to hear a note from him anytime soon. In between diaper runs, however, Darniell... more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — Mountain Goats @ Knitting Factory, Halloween 2005 (more) As previously mentioned, John Wesley Harding is holding a "Cabinet of Wonders" variety show at NYC's City Winery on October 28th with Hamilton Leithauser (The Walkmen), Eugene Mirman, John Hodg... more info