Aquarium Drunkard — Since forming the Mountain Goats in 1991, John Darnielle has sung about remarkable people: wounded couples, Texas death metal aficionados, doo wop singers, professional wrestlers, horror authors, heretics, prophets, long-dead classical pianists, and ... more info

DrownedInSound — This album is a love letter for anyone and everyone that holds the underground to their heart more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Jeffrey Tambor talked to Signature and Paste about his new memoir Are You Anybody?. NPR Music is streaming the new Mountain Goats album Goths. Miriam Suzanne talked to Vol. 1 Brooklyn about her novel Riding Sidesaddle*. Stream a new song... more info

Stereogum — A couple of months ago, John Darnielle published a book about darkness. Universal Harvester is either the Mountain Goats frontman's second novel or his third, depending on how you define his entirely fictional (and great) 33 1/3 book about Black Sabb... more info

Stereogum — One of the great things about news of a new Mountain Goats album is finding out what the concept is going to be. All Mountain Goats albums are concept albums, and the last few concepts have been especially inspired. The band's last album, 2015's Bea... more info

Stereogum — Last week Adult Swim announced the latest music project, a dream-pop compilation called LUXE. We already heard Tei Shi's contribution, "One Thing," and now the rest of the comp is online for consumption. It features new music by artists such as Neon ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Paste listed the best book covers of 2017 (so far). All Songs Considered shared a new Mountain Goats song and discussed the band's forthcoming album Goths with John Darnielle. Dani Shapiro on writing about marriage. Stream a new Beach Fossils... more info

Stereogum — In May, the Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Goths, and a few months ago, John Darnielle introduced the noticeably guitar-free album with "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds." Today, he's shared a second song from the album -- it's the ... more info

Consequence of Sound — The hushed, mournful track evokes John Darnielle's earliest self-recorded albums. more info

Stereogum — The anti-Trump charity series Our First 100 Days promises "one hundred songs that inspire progress and benefit a cause for change." The 71st of those songs comes from the Mountain Goats. "Etruscans" is not from John Darnielle's forthcoming Goths , a... more info