Sincere, specific and smart as hell, John Darnielle is the prolific singer-songwriter who's been releasing music as the Mountain Goats since 1991 — first solo, then with other musicians like long-time ...

Transcendental Youth once again proves that The Mountain Goats are one of the few bands in indie rock that can get away with writing the same song over and over. That’s not to say every tracksounds ...

For about the first decade of their existence, the Mountain Goats were not an actual band; they were John Darnielle's solo project. The plural-noun band name was a kind of in-joke; Darnielle would ...

In an age of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, the understated talent of a lone man with an acoustic guitar often goes underappreciated. However, since their inception in 1991, The Mountain Goats have been ...

Peter Hughes, the longtime bassist and backup vocalist in the Mountain Goats, is leaving the band. Hughes joined the Mountain Goats back in 1996 and performed on nearly every album, beginning with ...

Peter Hughes has been making music long enough to narrow the process down to a single, telling aphorism: “You just have to check your ego.” A quick survey of the projects multi-instrumentalist Hughes ...

The first time indie rock icons the Mountain Goats played in Texas, the band’s founder and singer-songwriter, John Darnielle, didn’t really know what to expect. Darnielle was born in Indiana and ...

On “Jenny from Thebes,” The Mountain Goats offer a sequel to one of their most beloved albums, 2002's “All Hail West Texas." This one has a lot more bells and whistles. The first album was an intimate ...

John Darniella of the band, The Mountain Goats, playing the guitar. The band performed in Black Mountain, NC on Sep. 20, 2025. Photo courtesy of @mountaingoatsmusic/Instagram Finding ways to stay ...

There are essentially three categories of sequels: Sequels everyone wants (The Godfather Part II, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), sequels nobody really wanted (Space Jam: A New Legacy, Blues ...

John Darnielle is prepared to derail our entire conversation because of his obsession with Charles Bronson. This is, in part, because I’ve let him know right away that the Mountain Goats’ 2022 album, ...

Longtime The Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes is leaving the band. He shared the news in a lengthy message on social media, writing, “It’s been the ride of a lifetime, but I’m sorry to say that for ...