Few indie acts are as widely known and beloved as the Mountain Goats, and even fewer release new music at John Darnielle's prolific clip. But Darnielle is always on his grind, so of course the follow-up to last year's fantasy-themed In League With Dragons is under construction.

The Mountain Goats never really let up with releasing new music. John Darnielle's project put out a new full-length, In League With Dragons, this past spring, and they've already shared three other new songs since then.

If you know anything about the Mountain Goats, then you know John Darnielle regularly writes vast numbers of songs, pretty much all of which are great, and not all of which manage to make their way onto Mountain Goats albums. Darnielle has a number of ways of dealing with those overflow songs. Sometimes, he puts…

Merge Records turned 30 this year, and to celebrate, the North Carolina-based label is throwing a festival called MRG30. Merge started out as a way for Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance to release music from their band Superchunk, so of course Superchunk is on the lineup alongside other Merge artists like the Mountain Goats, Destroyer,…

A decade ago, the Mountain Goats were guests on The Colbert Report. While they were there, they did something special. Together with Stephen Colbert, they performed "This Year," the anthemic opening song from their 2005 masterpiece The Sunset Tree. That's a song that means a whole lot to a whole lot of people, and Stephen…