The masked psychedelic band Goat claim their project stems from a long-running collective of townspeople in their small Swedish village: People have been playing under the name Goat in various ...

Peter Hughes, the longtime bassist and backup vocalist in the Mountain Goats, is leaving the band. Hughes joined the Mountain Goats back in 1995 and performed on every album except their 1994 ...

The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle recently announced a brief “All Roads Lead to Lincoln” solo mini-tour to go down this September. Now he has announced a full band Mountain Goats U.S. tour to happen ...

I don't know about other bands, but I can say with some confidence that in The Mountain Goats we don't spend a lot of time listening to our own records. This wasn't always true in my case: for the ...