The Mountain Goats

Laura covered The Mountain Goats (twice), The Replacements, and Camper Van Beethoven during her set, and Control Top and Mercy Union opened.

Listen to new songs by Aldous Harding, Chance the Rapper, slowthai, Black Mountain, Kevin Abstract, Jesca Hoop, Local Natives, The Mountain Goats, Kazu (of Blonde Redhead), and more

The Mountain Goats’ new album ’In League with Dragons’ is out April 26 and they’ve just shared a new song from it, an upbeat, jazzy, string-filled number called ”Cadaver Sniffing Dog.”

Plus: Robyn, Ty Segall, Built To Spill, Southern Culture on the Skids, Hot Snakes, PAWS, and more tour-related news.

Merge Records turns 30 this year and they’re celebrating three decades as an independent label with the 4-day MRG30 festival this summer in North Carolina, featuring Superchunk, Fucked Up, the Mountain Goats, Wye Oak, Destroyer, and more…

Listen to the album’s first single ”Younger,” sax solo included.

”Good people of the Mountain Goatsmassive, we are pleased to report that we have sojourned for a season in the cave upon the hillside where the ancient crystals tremble; and have returned from thence with much news, of which you will all be soon made aware.”

Plus: read tributes to Stan from Gene Simmons, Travis Scott, Patton Oswalt, and more.

”I sat down to write this song with my son. I said, ’what should we call this jam?’ He said ‘Skeleton’s Tooth’, Darnielle laughed, ”So I wrote Skeleton’s Tooth.”