The Mountain Goats

more like the mountaint goats

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Merge press sheet intro: Today, the Mountain Goats have announced new full band shows this fall. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, April 29.

John:
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS HAVE NOW BEEN A QUARTET FOR A LITTLE OVER A YEAR and it is so inspiring it is to find ourselves here: "never do things too fast" has always been my motto: write a lot, release a lot, but only change up your game when it feels right, always be moving forward but kick back strongly at anybody trying to grab hold of your shoulders and push you in any particular kinda direction. This philosophy is why we didn't go into a recording studio at all until we were good and ready, why we didn't have a full-time drummer until 2007, and it's why we knew, when Matt Douglas showed up on the scene, that we were headed into new terrain.

WE'RE WORKING ON NEW STUFF NOW. As is usually the case, I know more about it than I'm gonna tell you outright, because the best things gestate in the secret darkness and only emerge when the portents say it's time. But the best place to prepare for the spring festival is in the arena: in front of an audience, I mean, in clubs, on stages, in the actual thick of things. It's where the road ahead becomes clearest. It's where the indicators glow brightest. It's where we live.

EVERY SHOW ON THE BRINE CRYPT EXODUS TOUR SOLD OUT EXCEPT FOR THE ONE WHERE WE SOLD THE MOST TICKETS, which is totally hilarious, but I mention this by way of saying: we're touring in the fall. Full electric tour at full volume, all four of us. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 29. The smaller rooms will sell out quicker, the bigger ones may take a minute, fair warning as Van Halen said on the album that has "Unchained" on it, which they said the same year that Rufus released Camouflage, which you should go listen to right now because it's one of the best albums anywhere. As for us, we'll see you in the fall!

The Mountain Goats on tour:
Jul 22 Chicago, IL — Subterranean
Sep 18 Baltimore, MD — Ram's Head Live
Sep 19 Richmond, VA — The National
Sep 20 Charlottesville, VA — Jefferson Theater
Sep 22 Bloomington, IN — Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
Sep 23 Bloomington, IL — The Castle Theatre
Sep 26 Iowa City, IA — The Englert Theatre
Sep 27 Milwaukee, WI — Pabst Theater
Sep 28 Madison, WI — Majestic Theater
Sep 30 Omaha, NE — The Waiting Room
Oct 01 Kansas City, MO — Madrid Theater
Oct 02 Columbia, MO — The Blue Note
Oct 03 Maquoketa, IA — Codfish Hollow Barnstormers

Dang, hope they add some dates down South!

clearly truncated to watch Cubs' world championship

big lol at damn darnielle

clearly truncated to watch Cubs' world championship

so not gonna happen

Codfish Hollow Barnstormers

i have to go here

New novel coming up (thanx for tip, one way street)
http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/148300957101/i-like-to-work-that-is-a-big-part-of-who-i-am

Recently (New Year's Eve) in Mountain Goats twitter feed, John D. said that although The Sunset Treewas strenuous to record, studios are "close quarters" anyway, and ...that record represented for me a breakthrough in my writing. wanting to be honest / forthright / clear / etc

Lots more, but anyway was worth it, he says.

clearly truncated to watch Cubs' world championship

so not gonna happen

― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, April 25, 2016 6:17 PM

sb everyone

ahem
The Mountain Goats
https://twitter.com/rianjohnson

psyched for his new book UNIVERSAL HARVESTER, out next tuesday I think

Yup, can't wait!

"The Ultimate Jedi Who Kills All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" is their best song since "Short Song For Justin Bieber's Paparazzi."

super appreciate that when ppl praise his work he says pleasant and modest things that do not include the word 'humbled'

..I think you are maybe thinking of someone else?

heh, i did a shitty job of posting that track.

Trying again: http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/mountain-goats-wrote-a-star-wars-song.html

I mean, being humble strikes me as a very JD thing, it's the self working on the self, unlike being #blessed. Can definitely see him getting up in the morning and doing 20 humble crunches, getting himself set up for the day.

No I imagine he means that he's avoiding this new use of the word "humbled" when the person means, in fact, the opposite, which is a thing more

Hah, I did not know of that - okay then I think his uses are definitely keeping the retro-humbled flame alive :)

Interview about the new book

I'm at that in-between point where I saw the book at work, bought the book, am excited about the book's basic description, am recommending the book to coworkers and customers, but still need to start the book on my day off.

So maybe tomorrow. The dust jacket will show off great wear and aging like a pair of Canadian/Japanese collaboration blue jeans.

book reading in W. DC tonight

i loved this book so much, totally stunned

tracklist for the new one (called goths) is prob the best tracklist i've ever read

Would you have a link, there?

https://us.7digital.com/artist/the-mountain-goats/release/goths-deluxe-version-6195812

Missed opportunity to just rename the whole project 'the Mountain Goths'.

'Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds' is up on Spotify and other streaming services.

djp in the house

oh yeah, there is that ^_^

Minor details!

as somebody who needs choral music to be aggressively crossovered into their life i am hyped to hear, d

"no guitars" I hear

wait, is djp on this album?

(Thanks for asking. I'm confused too.)

it's the DJP-only album we've been waiting for

DJP has taken over the MG identity and it is nothing but plainsong chants.

Or alternately, I arranged backing vocals on one of the songs

But...my creative lies for your benefit.

Don't get me wrong, I'm gonna email some friends for a Latin translation of "No Children" this weekend

Off-topic, but in ILX - With Ads!Ⓡ news:

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/mountaingoats_zpswck1hdwj.jpg

hoping drew is somehow involved as well

Nice dan!

Anyone reading his book?

Just got a copy after going to the reading in Seattle. I'm honestly amazed by how good he is at audience q&a's, being able to answer cliched or awkwardly phrased questions in an interesting way that doesn't make the person asking feel stupid is a real gift.

omg @ Goths

ltd time offer, also cc'd on twitter so maybe invalid at time of reading this: pls somebody say if they wd like my copy of the novel, i can't rly have bks piling up here & am happy to probably-lazily mail it to someone who wants to read, #usa #only