Tag Archives: John Darnielle
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REVIEW: The Mountain Goats explore action movies on ‘Bleed Out’
The Mountain Goats, “Bleed Out.” There are two consistent things about The Mountain Goats: Only-member-turned-frontman John Darnielle and inconsistency. What started as a one-man lo-fi project recorded on a boombox has, over the course of 20 albums, touched on all sorts of subject matter and styles. From Goths (inspired by Bauhaus…
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REVIEW: The Mountain Goats revive roots rock while ‘Getting Into Knives’
With nearly 20 albums in just under 30 years, The Mountain Goats have grown vastly beyond being John Darnielle’s solo project. The last two albums polarize the band’s eccentricity with its roots—namely the would-be high fantasy of In League With Dragons and Darnielle’s stripped-down solo effort Songs for Pierre Chuvin.…
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Mountain Goats’ ‘In League with Dragons’ has quality, but few dragons
When The Mountain Goats announced In League with Dragons, and you saw that the announcement was sponsored by Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast, you may have made some assumptions. You may have been expecting a concept album set on Toril, full of songs about the gods and…
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Outside Lands: The Weeknd, Beck and 20 other acts we loved Friday
Photos: Joaquin Cabello and Shawn Robbins SAN FRANCISCO — The Weeknd put on a headliner-caliber show to close out the first day of Outside Lands on Friday. It’s hard to believe the Canadian artist was just another YouTube singer only eight years ago. His polished neo-R&B vocals were accompanied by…
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Review: The Mountain Goats, The Dodos at Front Porch Music Festival
Mountain Goats perform at Front Porch Music Festival at Wente Vineyards in Livermore, Calif., on Sept. 1, 2012. Photos: Eric O’Donnell. Livermore’s Wente Vineyards, venerable for hosting big-name artists like John Fogerty, Sheryl Crow and Dianna Krall, went indie Saturday with a double-bill of The Mountain Goats and The…