Gone is John Darnielle's small-town story about metal bros Jeff and Cyrus, replaced with a black & white, pseudo-sacrificial, NSFW romp through North Texas woods. Between this video and the Best Coast one earlier this week, 35D is certainly doing a...

While other tracks on the record featured her friends like Aesop Rock and John Darnielle, the focus of "Solid and Strong" remains on Dawson and her knack for cheery, wholly accessible folk tunes. But for the track's video, the central theme is that of...

Leonard Cohen covers continue to pour out this week. The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle is the most recent artist to deliver his own rendition to the series. Darnielle chose “The Smokey Life” from Cohen’s 1979 Recent Songs. You can watch the live track...

Cohen’s new album, Old Ideas, Columbia Records has teamed with Vimeo for a covers series, entitled Old Ideas With New Friends. We’ve already heard Bradford Cox, Cults, Cold War Kids, and Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli reinterpret their favorite Cohen tracks,...

The Mountain Goat’s latest tour is to road test some new material for the tentatively titled forthcoming LP Transcendental Youth before laying it down in final version, so the songs can grow and have live of themselves before the production process...

Darnielle loves Tampa. "Tampa. I’ve loved that word since I was a kid," he mused at The Mountain Goats' sold-out Crowbar show late last Wednesday night. "You could beat someone’s ass with that word"; a chuckle-worthy sentiment from a mind often wrought...