LargeHeartedBoy — The Mountain Goats' surprise Hex Of Infinite Binding EP is the week's standout release for me. Mirah's Understanding and Waxahatchee's Great Thunder EP are other releases I can wholly recommend. Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same live album... more info

Consequence of Sound — The four-song EP follows last year's Goths LP. more info

Chorus.fm — The Mountain Goats have surprised released the new EP Hex of Infinite Binding. more info

Stereogum — The Mountain Goats, an enormously prolific and powerful force within indie rock for decades, have a new EP, one that they only announced yesterday. The four-song collection Hex Of Infinite Binding follows Marsh Witch Visions , the EP that that Mount... more info

Stereogum — During their tour stop in Tampa earlier this week, the Mountain Goats performed a salute to death metal, welcoming onstage Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan for "The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton." Last night in Tulsa, they honored the '70s punk roc... more info

Metal Injection — All hail west Texas... and John Darnielle. The post Watch HATE ETERNAL's Erik Rutan Join THE MOUNTAIN GOATS On Stage For "The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton" appeared first on Metal Injection. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Mountain Goats played 'The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton' with help from one of the best ever death metal musicians in Florida. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — The Mountain Goats leader John Darnielle has always been a vocal and eloquent fan of death metal. I once asked him why he never tried to play it himself, and he answered that he simply could never be a good enough musician, that death metal musicians... more info

Chorus.fm — The Mountain Goats covered Bon Iver’s “Blood Bank” and two other songs for Aquarium Drunkard. http://aquariumdrunkard.info/upload/Blood%20Bank.mp3 more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Book Riot interviewed Ellen Forney about her graphic memoir Rock Steady. The Mountain Goats shared three cover songs at Aquarium Drunkard. eBook on sale for $2.99 today: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by Charles Yu... more info