The Mountain Goats

I fear I'll need to miss the LA signing, so I've preordered and wait with bated breath.

09-15 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge ^
09-18 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall
09-22 Raleigh, NC - Quail Ridge Books
09-24 Nashville, TN - Parnassus Books
09-25 Oxford, MS - Off Square Books
09-29 San Francisco, CA - Green Apple Books *
09-30 Los Angeles, CA - Skylight Books
10-01 Portland, OR - Powell's Books
10-02 Denver, CO - The Tattered Cover
10-05 Dallas, TX - The Wild Detectives
10-06 Austin, TX - Book People
10-07 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall #
10-08 Brookline, MA - Coolidge Theater

^ with John Hodgman
* with Robin Sloan
# with Mairead Case

being on the NBA list of ten fiction nominees the week your book comes out is pretty good

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014.html#.VBrGd_ldUuc

woah!

Awesome! Congrats John!

listening to the Fresh Air interview this morning was heart-cheering

... altho the part where he talked about fans dumping all their heavy stories on him at the merch table made me wish I could make it out to Motorco tonight just to tell a joke or something

i dumped gifted him with a bottle of malört at a merch table last year

the book is really excellent

lol gr8080

CONGRATS JOHN

oh shit gr8080, malort, that shit is vile

iirc his review based on one shot was:

"That is the vilest shit ever, in the most charming way possible."

def the most otm description of malört i've ever heard

kudos to you motherfucker

a bottle of malort. a kudos candy bar. and a bargain priced room on la cienega.

Congratulations, Mr. Mountain Goats. Master Of Reality is fantastic so I'm not surprised by the high praise. Way looking forward to reading this.

Oh hmm, the Oxford event includes a Thacker Mountain Radio broadcast/reading. Adjusting dinner plans...

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/17/348736199/as-a-lyricist-and-novelist-the-mountain-goats-lead-man-writes-about-pain

I intend to listen to the Fresh Air thing...

Whoa, congrats. All the fun novels I've been looking forward to are out this month (David Mitchell, Jeff Vandermeer), and aero's is up next for me.

something about that npr headline is v weird to me

mega congrats to the goat gentleman

yeah big ups, aero! like seriously. can't wait to get my hands on this thing and hope I can move some stuff around to see you at Powell's on the first.

I'm not exactly who John writes for, but he's still managed to get Denton stuck in my ear.

best ever

http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/101178844671/a-band-i-like-called-helcaraxe-sent-me-their-cover

this is fucking mighty.

Solid cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hysbWNn9WqI

Hey, that's not bad! The bloopy keys remind me of the keyboard bloops on Autoclave.

Yo

http://www.mergerecords.com/beat-the-champ

http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/108736975801/the-cream-of-the-crop

https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/the-mountain-goats-the-legend-of-chavo-guerrero/

!!!

yessss

Niiiiice

what are some other words or characters we can post multiple tiiiiiimes???

Today Al Madril denies that he was ever a wrestler.

Just listened to that like 3 times in a row. Totally psyched.

Today Al Madril denies that he was ever a wrestler.

this is true & such a sad detail, he was such an great and chill local face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfZAQZy0Eg

wwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrreeeeeeessssssttttttttllllliiiiinnnnn'''''''

Al Mandrill would be a sweet joke cover band

ok so who plays the lead guitar is what i want to know

hurrah!

descending like fire on the people who deserved it most/almost completely unknown outside texas and on the west coast

A cool piece

http://t.co/LPM61UyU5H

And even cooler? I suggest checking out this feed for the past few days:

https://twitter.com/ChavoClassic

2nd pre-order track, Heel Turn 2, is available now. I've got a really good feeling about this batch of songs.

That feeling is justified.

P4k Interview: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9609-the-mountain-goats/

Cool!

If it's half as good as Transcendental Youth it'll be one of the best records of the year. He is at his peak right now.

I should say "they" instead of he, because Jon Wurster's drumming is a huge part of their sound.

It really is that good.

Okay so "Chavo Guerrero" didn't really grab me, but "Heel Turn" is a whole different ballpark -- truly one for the ages.

Streaming streaming streaming.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/29/395108044/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-beat-the-champ

Also, performing and discussing one of the new songs:

http://www.avclub.com/videoplaylist/john-darnielle-discusses-and-performs-stabbed-deat-217189

Ooof @ "Hair Match", <3 <3 so good