The Mountain Goats

Of interest!

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/first-drafts-the-mountain-goats-dance-music/240558/

awes, will read later

that was cool. i always enjoy little candid bits from songwriters about their songwriting.

dude played a spirited show on tuesday in spite of a back half of the room who needed to be 51'd. it was the first i've been able to make it to in about 8 years, fun to see him with the (not extraordinarily recent) addition of a band.

i went and actually milled around outside but it was raining so hard and i was soaked from biking and went home instead :(

Super fun show tonight, so much unpent mad energy coming from that stage. Really great sets w/ bonus Steely Dan cover in the (quieter) middle.

what steely dan song did he do?

could totally imagine kid charlemagne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeoCG7-3Jqw

NO STATIC AT ALL

Steve Shasta (Malibu, CA USA)

could totally imagine kid charlemagne

Nah, he did Dr. Wu

I ask a few things.

good interview! i only just got this album, and man its good, seems like it might even be one of his best?

Good interview. (But ketjap manis >>>>>> straight soy sauce in that pad thai.)

I am totally not faking when I say that I don't get what's supposed to be wrong with the Spitznagl interview!

my 8 yr old daughter chimes in:

"what the... this is kind of annoying. going to georgia?? i thought your voice had to be good to have a CD out. how does this guy have a CD?... we need to get rid of this one... get rid of it, delete it from your computer at least, dad."

your daughter is kinda a dick

apple, tree, et cetera

Pretty much my favourite band ever. Had a wonderful bonding moment with my really surly 16 year old brother on holiday a few weeks back. I absent mindedly started singing Birth of Serpents in the car, he turns to me and asks why I was singing it, I was surprised he knew what it was, and then boom, he tells me about how much he loves the band, how he's got tonnes of their records etc. I've never got on with him better, so thanks John Darnielle!

that's my favorite mg song -- wtf little ilxtress

love TMG stuff, esp. as summer begins to fade into fall.

I love High Hawk Season, but I am biased

ha

i went to see their dublin show with some friends, we had a ball. suspiciously timed with the obama visit tho i must say

did u mean to say o'bama

looooooool ilxor

ní féidir liom xp

loool djp

i do like tmg

I love High Hawk Season, but I am biased

one of the best things ive heard all year. i am not biased!

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltowrfU1Ej1r5v7auo1_500.jpg

too much time on ilx imo

New track!

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12730-thucydides-ii-58/

i try not to be a pushy fan but man if there was a whole now-cancelled mountain goats project of songs based on passages by classical historians i am going to be slightly rueful

Ooh!

that show is right at the start of EMP, ja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roQj2eSRlXE

isn't that just the greatest thing ever? ^

That is great! Thanks for sharing

a JD/OP duet album would be VERY welcome round here and with me

as long as we get more sweet djp action too

(also what are matmos up to these days?)

the Anonymous 4 collaboration rolled out tonight was unbelievably good. I feel the need to hear it all again, since the arrangements were so intricate and perfectly attuned to the songs that each piece had a couple of moments I almost needed a breather after to take them in. Also v nice to see Mr Mountain Goats be so clearly thrilled by the occasion, and Owen Pallett perform in such a different situation, as a fill-in with A4 themselves (he looked increeeedibly nervous beforehand, but to my untrained ears it sounded great). Also thanks for finishing fairly early, as it meant I had time to run up the road and catch all of When Saints Go Machine's set.

v much worth dragging myself out of bed for as I continue to fight a bug, but I feel I'm going to need about 15 hours of sleep now.

Co-sign, especially about the need to hear it all again. If this stuff doesn't get recorded & released I might cry a little.

The quintessential @mountain_goats moment: Someone requests "Fault Lines," JD demurs, claiming lyrical ignorance. Fan hands him her iPhone.

next time i see dude i'm gonna bring a printout of 'song for cleomenes'

woohoo! http://pitchfork.com/news/46347-the-mountain-goats-reissue-old-cassettes/

"The songs you find on this compact disc originally appeared on two cassettes. To elaborate further about that—to say, for example, that the songs originally appeared 'on two cassettes that were released in ____ and ____'—would misrepresent the spirit of their time. These tapes did not have release dates. No one anticipated their coming into the world, and very few noticed or cared. All previous eras cross at some point into the territory of the unimaginable, and so it is with the days of tape-trading. The obscurity in which these songs were incubated and born and brought into their faint light is a state of being which has passed into history."

wow, I still have these cassettes floating around somewhere, but they are nigh-unplayable. Will buy the reissue, definitely.

New album in October:

http://www.mountain-goats.com/archives/2012/07/just-under-1000.html

SO EXCITED for the cassette reissues, somehow missed news of these but will get them today!