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The Mountain Goats announce new tour dates including Lollapalooza!

The Mountain Goats have confirmed a string of headlining west coast tour dates in support of their new album All Eternals Deck, including a show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on June 23rd.

The band is also scheduled to play Lollapalooza in Chicago in August, as well as several dates with Bright Eyes.

All Eternals Deck was released last month to resounding critical acclaim. SPIN praised frontman John Darnielle as “indie rock’s greatest lyricist” on the cover of their April issue, while Rolling Stone touted him as an “ace word-slinger.” Pitchfork hailed the “revelatory” album as a “career highlight” for Darnielle.

All Eternals Deck is available on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store.

See below for a full tour schedule.

The Mountain Goats on tour:
6/14 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
6/16 Seattle, WA The Showbox
6/17 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Cabaret
6/18 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
6/20 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
6/23 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre
6/26 Bloomington, IN Rhino’s Youth Center (solo set)
7/27 Lewiston, NY Artpark *
7/28 Gilford, NH Meadowbrook US Cellular Pavilion *
7/29 South Burlington, VT The Green At Shelburne Museum *
7/30 Montreal, QC Osheaga Festival
7/31 Baldwinsville, NY Papermill Island Amphitheatre *
8/3 Grand Rapids, MI Meijer Gardens *
8/4 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room *
8/5-8/7 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza

* = with Bright Eyes

The Mountain Goats on Letterman tonight, attend WNYC’s Greene Space next week!

Tonight, the Mountain Goats’ performance of “Birth of Serpents” will re-air on Late Show with David Letterman! Catch their performance on CBS at 11:35 p.m. EST. Tune in or set your DVR! The band heads out on tour tonight starting at The National in Richmond, and have sold out three nights at the Bowery Ballroom! WNYC’s Greene Space will host a special live event on Wednesday, March 30 at 2pm. Tickets to the event are now available at WNYC.org.

On Tour:
03-24 Richmond, VA The National
03-25 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
03-26 York, PA Strand-Capitol Performing Arts
03-28 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
03-29 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
03-30 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
04-01 Boston, MA Paradise
04-02 Ithaca, NY Castaways
04-03 Toronto, ON The Opera House
04-05 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
04-06 Nashville, TN One Cannery Row
04-07 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
04-08 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
04-10 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle
04-11 Columbus, OH Wexner Center
04-12 Millvale, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre
04-15 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts
06-25 Bloomington, IN Plan-it-X REcords

 

Stream the Mountain Goats’ “All Eternals Deck” on NPR’s First Listen!

This week, the Mountain Goats’ new album All Eternals Deck debuted at NPR.org as part of the “First Listen” series. The album will be in stores on March 29, but listen to it now at NPR.org!

Last week, The Mountain Goats debuted “Birth of Serpents,” the album’s first single, on The Late Show with David Letterman.

The Mountain Goats launch their tour in support of All Eternals Deck in late March, which includes 3 sold-out shows at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom (dates below).

The Mountain Goats on tour:
3/24 Richmond, VA @ The National
3/25 Washington DC @ 930 Club
3/26 York, PA @ Strand-Capitol PAC
3/28 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (sold out)
3/29 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (sold out)
3/30 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (sold out)
4/01 Boston, MA @ Paradise
4/02 Ithaca, NY @ Castaways
4/03 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
4/05 Chicago, IL @ The Vic
4/06 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
4/07 Atlanta GA @ Variety Playhouse
4/08 Chapel Hill, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
4/10 Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
4/11 Columbus, OH @ Wexner Center
4/12 Pittsburgh PA @ Mr Smalls
4/14 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
4/15 Philadelphia, PA@ Theater of Living Arts

You can find the Mountain Goats on twitter, Facebook, and at their official website.

The Mountain Goats play Letterman!

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All Enternals Deck is available for pre-order from the Merge Store now!

The Mountain Goats perform on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight!

Tonight, the Mountain Goats will make their Late Show with David Letterman debut with a new song from their forthcoming album All Eternals Deck, which will be in stores on March 29. Catch their performance on CBS at 11:35 p.m. EST. Tune in or set your DVR!

The Mountain Goats will also be heading out on tour beginning March 24 in Richmond, VA, and ending April 15 in Philadelphia, with more dates to come!

Download “Damn These Vampires” and pre-order the Mountain Goats’ All Eternals Deck on CD and LP now in the Merge store.

The Mountain Goats to appear on Letterman Feb 23 & announce ‘All Eternals Deck’ pre-order with bonus cassette

On February 23, the Mountain Goats will make their Late Show with David Letterman debut, performing a new song from their forthcoming album All Eternals Deck which will be in stores March 29.

While supplies last, each pre-ordered CD & LP of All Eternals Deck will include a hand-colored cassette entitled All Survivors Pack featuring demo versions and two non-album tracks, available only via the Merge store and select independent record stores.

For vinyl fans, colored versions of the LP will be mixed in and randomly distributed with the black vinyl pressing. All vinyl copies also include a link to a digital download of the album.

All Survivors Pack (demo cassette for All Eternals Deck) track listing:
1). Catherine Antrim’s Kid
2). Beautiful Gas Mask
3). Birth of Serpents
4). The Autopsy Garland
5). Estate Sale Sign
6). Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece
7). Sourdoire Valley Song
8). Age of Kings
9). High Hawk Season
10). Never Quite Free
11). For Charles Bronson
12). Liza Forever Minnelli

Follow the Mountain Goats on twitter!

2010 Year End List: John Darnielle & Franklin Bruno, The Extra Lens

John’s Top 12 because 12 is divisible by 3 which as we know is super important:

the Ultima Thule podcast was my #1 most listened thing of 2010. Best thing best thing.
Cocorosie, Grey Oceans
Bottomless Pit, Blood Under the Bridge
Prince Rama, Shadow Temple
Ares Kingdom, Incendiary
Therion, Sitra Ahra
Owen Pallett, Heartland
Caitlin Rose, Learning to Ride
Strong Arm Steady, In Search of Stoney Jackson
Umberto, Prophecy of the Black Widow
Steve Roach, Sigh of Ages
108, 18.61

Franklin’s top albums, shows & movies of 2010:

Albums:
Boston Spaceships, Our Cubehouse Still Rocks
Bob Dylan, The Witmark Demos
Kevin Dunn, No Great Lost
Cee-Lo Green, The Ladykiller
The Intelligence, Males
LCD Sound System, This is Happening
v/a, Nippon Girls
Cass McCombs, Catacombs
Janelle Monae, The Archandroid
Robyn, Body Talk Pt. 1

Live shows:
Laurie Anderson
Bennink/Moore/Holshouser
Peter Blegvad
Gina Leishman
Carol Lipnik and Spook-a-Rama
Rattle
Robyn
The Roulette Sisters
Superchunk
Wave Pictures

Movies (new and old):
Carlos (2010, Oliver Assayas)
Get Out of the Car (2010, Thom Anderson)
Every Man for Himself (1980, Jean-Luc Godard)
Ne Change Rein (2010, Pedro Costa)
On the Bowery (1957, Lionel Rogosin)
Salamander (1971, Alain Tanner)
The Sorrows of Dolores (1986, Charles Ludlam)
Sunnyside Up (1929, David Butler)
When Strangers Marry (1944, William Castle)
Woman in Hiding (1950, Michael Gordon

The Mountain Goats confirm Merge Records debut, “All Eternals Deck,” out March 29

The Mountain Goats have confirmed the March 29 release of All Eternals Deck, their Merge debut. As with their last album, The Life of the World To Come, the group treated the recording sessions as commando raids on several studios with a few different producers: four songs at North Carolina’s Fidelitorium with John Congleton; one at Q Division in Boston with Brandon Eggleston; four at Brooklyn’s Mission Sound with Scott Solter; and four at Mana Recording Studios in Florida, with former Morbid Angel guitarist and current Hate Eternal helmsman Erik Rutan.

Describing the album, Darnielle writes, “If you have ever watched say a 70s occult-scare movie where one of the scenes involves a few people visiting a storefront fortune teller, getting their cards read, and then trying to feel super-hopeful about their predicted outcome when what they’re visibly actually feeling is dread, then you have a pretty decent idea of what the album is all about.” He elaborates, “Other possible points of reference include ‘Burnt Offerings,’ ‘Go Ask Alice,’ and that one scene in The Warriors where they’re on the train and the sun’s coming up and they’re safe but you know the scars are permanent now.” Read more from Darnielle at mountain-goats.com.

Of 2009′s The Life of the World to Come, GQ said “[Darnielle's] not just one of the greatest songwriters working today—he’s probably one of the greatest working writers.” The album earned a ‘Best New Music’ nod from Pitchfork and prompted Stephen Colbert to invite the band to make its national television debut on the Colbert Report.

More details about All Eternals Deck will be announced soon.

All Eternals Deck tracklist:
1. Damn These Vampires
2. Birth of Serpents
3. Estate Sale Sign
4. Age of Kings
5. The Autopsy Garland
6. Beautiful Gas Mask
7. High Hawk Season
8. Prowl Great Cain
9. Sourdoire Valley Song
10. Outer Scorpion Squadron
11. For Charles Bronson
12. Never Quite Free
13. Liza Forever Minnelli

The Mountain Goats are:
John Darnielle- singer/songwriter
Peter Hughes- bass
Jon Wurster- drums

The Mountain Goats can be found on the web at their official website, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

Details emerge about new album from the Mountain Goats!

Follow @mountain_goats on twitter as more information emerges about the forthcoming Merge debut from the Mountain Goats! Pitchfork has pieced together a few details, but there are more to come!

The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle will perform a live score to a special screening of Mauritz Stiller’s 1919 silent film classic Sir Arne’s Treasure on Tuesday, December 14 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Film Society’s ongoing project to present classic silent films with live scores performed by extraordinary contemporary musicians. More information about John’s performance can be found at mountain-goats.com.

the Mountain Goats – “You were Cool”

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Stream The Mountain Goats & Spoon live from ACL

Watch and listen to streaming sets by The Mountain Goats & Spoon live at the Austin City Limits music festival in Austin, TX happening today! The Mountain Goats are on at 2PM CST / 3 PM EST and Spoon will play at 8PM CST / 9PM EST.

Click here to watch & listen!

Stream & pre-order The Extra Lens’ “Undercard” now!

The Extra Lens, the musical collaboration between John Darnielle (Mountain Goats) and Franklin Bruno (Nothing Painted Blue, the Human Hearts), will release their Merge debut, Undercard on October 19. You can now stream Undercard in its entirety and pre-order the album on CD and LP in the Merge store.

Undercard is the first new album from this distinguished partnership since 2002′s Martial Arts Weekend and is comprised of eleven original songs and a pretty ominous-sounding cover song, and will include copious song notes from John and Franklin. The artwork features an illustration by Ian Dingman and a vintage boxing poster feel inspired by the title, Undercard, which references the fights listed under the main event at a boxing match.

The Extra Lens have a few surprises in store for us this fall, so stay tuned! Download a free MP3 of  “Only Existing Footage,” and be sure to follow the Extra Lens on twitter!

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