Approximately 9,000 years ago, human communities in Southwest Asia underwent a dramatic transformation, known as the Neolithic revolution. This period was marked by pronounced changes in how they ...

Episode 172For the Love of Goats When people think about international development work, they don’t always picture goats at ...

Mountain goat populations in Glacier National Park have plummeted sharply in recent years, according to new research on the iconic species that lives in the park’s mountainous terrain. “This is the ...

John Darnielle is never not writing and recording new songs. Darnielle's Mountain Goats have now released 23 official albums; their last one, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, came out just ...

[Find the entire recap of "An Evening with The Mountain Goats and Molly Tuttle" here. Below is an edited excerpt:] Notably, The Mountain Goats had just released a new album called Through This Fire ...

I use a small-c catholic because he draws inspiration from everyone from Euripides to Auden, Dickinson to Didion, Liza Minnelli to Christopher Guest (on successive pages he connects his songs to ...

Darnielle says that Indigo De Souza‘s “Heartthrob” is his song of the year, and writes, “I put together a ranked top 10 for 2025 because everybody’s always like ‘unranked, it’s a big list’ and I gotta ...

Revered singer-songwriter John Darnielle has been leading the Mountain Goats since the early 1990s, putting out brilliant albums like 2002’s ‘Tallahassee’ and 2019’s ‘In League With Dragons.’ He’s ...

Like a Canadian looking for any opportunity to point out an actor or musician is Canadian, any Portland-based Mountain Goats obsessive will leap at the chance to tell you just how much the Rose City ...

I can’t remember the first time I encountered the great indie rock band the Mountain Goats, perhaps because to know them at all feels like having known them forever. Even on a first listen, their ...

The Mountain Goats will be bringing their distinct indie-folk sound to the Knitting Factory on Friday. Singer-songwriter John Darnielle founded the band in Claremont, California, in 1991. Initially, ...

With 23 albums to choose from, getting into The Mountain Goats can seem like an insurmountable task for the casual listener. But the truth is, not even the most hardcore Mountain Goats fan has heard ...