It's hard to find a band more literate than The Mountain Goats, so it's appropriate that "Sax Rohmer #1," one of the best songs on the new Heretic Pride, is named for a writer. But Sax Rohmer — the ...

Director Ace Norton's no fool: When creating a video, you take an artist's strengths, and exploit them. That's obviously Norton's approach to the great lead single from the Mountain Goats' deeply ...

Matt Douglas looks pretty bright-eyed for having just returned from two weeks in Australia on tour with the Mountain Goats. His role in the band on keys, guitar, and sax is just one of several hats ...

It's fun when John Darnielle spreads genre wings, whether talking metal in Decibel, guesting on an Aesop Rock jam, or upping the instrumentation during his 4AD tenure, but we've always been most fond ...