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The Mountain Goats are a United States band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The band is currently based in Durham , North Carolina . For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle, despite the plural moniker.
John Darnielle (/ d ɑːr ˈ n iː l /; [1] born March 16, 1967) [2] is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. [3]
In League With Dragons is the seventeenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 26, 2019, on Merge Records. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Inspired by tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons , the album has been described as a "partial rock opera " with influences from noir literature .
“I hope you die” is a line that Mountain Goats fans have been singing at the band’s shows for about 20 years. But suddenly, the song that contains it, “No Children,” has turned from a ...
As the 2008 Heretic Pride tour was ending, he was contacted by bassist Jason Narducy about replacing Bob Mould's drummer on the west coast leg of Mould's District Line tour. Wurster flew from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles the day after the Mountain Goats' last show and played his first show with Mould the next night in Solana Beach, California.
Moon Colony Bloodbath is an EP released by the Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice while on tour in 2009. It was recorded by John Darnielle and John Vanderslice, with a cover art collage by Michael Pajon. John Darnielle had this to say about its status as a concept album:
“I guarantee you, you’ll be hard pressed to find somebody who’s more excited to play Wichita than me,” John Darnielle says
This is the first Mountain Goats album to prominently feature a horn section, contributed and arranged by fellow musician Matthew E. White, who opened for the band on their 2012 tour. [ 16 ] The first 1,000 preorders of the album came with a bonus 7", [ 17 ] containing demos for the songs "Steal Smoked Fish" on Side A, and "In the Shadow of the ...