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

DrownedInSound — Enjoy this one. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

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

Brooklyn Vegan — words by Zach Pollack, photos by Grant MacAllister Bright Eyes / Mountain Goats Despite being out late in the name of DFA1979 on Thursday, I arrived at Lollapalooza on Friday in time for Wye Oak at noon on the Sony... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — In the Village Voice, Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell and the Hold Steady's Craig Finn interview Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachman. am New York profiles three NYC booksellers who are also writers. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats talks... more info

Pop Candy — Ooh, I like this new video from the Mountain Goats -- it features a bunch of cool animation and was directed by the Brooklyn-based teamed Awesome ... more info

Stereogum — Surfer Blood covered the Pixies as part of AV Club’s Undercover, the series that recently married the Mountain Goats and Jawbreaker. The Floridians went for “Gigantic” from the 1988 classic Surfer (Blood) Rosa. Keeping with that ’80s-undergro... more info

Stereogum — Forget the imagined death metal drums, “High Hawk Season” offers the most interestingly left-field arrangement on the Mountain Goats’ All Eternals Deck. Listen: The Mountain Goats – “High Hawk Season” All Eternals Deck is out via Merge. T... more info