John Darnielle

Darnielle co-stars and co-wrote songs in the best episode so far of terrific new Peacock murder mystery series ‘Poker Face‘ that was created by Rian Johnson (‘Knives Out‘) and stars Natasha Lyonne.

‘It Came From Aquarius Records‘ tells the story of San Francisco's much-loved, much-missed Aquarius Records, which closed in 2016 after 47 years...

”Please don't worry about me,” John Darnielle writes, ”I'm vaxxed up and maxxed up.”

John Darnielle's 2021 favorite include albums by Wardruna, Ruins of Beverast, Arooj Aftab, Sarah Jarosz, and he'll begin 2022 with a book tour for his new novel ’Devil House’

In addition to his prolific output with The Mountain Goats, frontman John Darnielle has a new novel coming out in January of 2022.

The Mountain Goats' new album, 'Dark in Here', is out June 25 via Merge.

The annual comedy and music benefit is going virtual this year with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bill Callahan, Vanessa Bayer, Fred Armisen, Sleaford Mods, John Darnielle, David Pajo, AC Newman, Mary Timony, Steve Albini, and more scheduled to appear.

It began, like a lot of things, as a Twitter joke. Watch the trailer.

The Mountain Goats' 19th album, Getting into Knives, is out today. You can also check out the setlist for the first of their two streaming shows.

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