Goats Don’t Shave, a seven-member Irish group that performed over the weekend at The Abbey Pub, 3420 W. Grace St., draws on two musical genres from the past-traditional Celtic folk music and syrupy ...

For about the first decade of their existence, the Mountain Goats were not an actual band; they were John Darnielle’s solo project. The plural-noun band name was a kind of in-joke; Darnielle would ...

Peter Hughes, the longtime bassist and backup vocalist in the Mountain Goats, is leaving the band. Hughes joined the Mountain Goats back in 1996 and performed on nearly every album, beginning with ...

The Mountain Goats’ tour arrived at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater last night. Skanking ensued. Some backstory: “No Children,” a highlight from the Mountain Goats’ 2002 stunner Tallahassee, recently ...

The next big boy band over in Texas...sort of. They're actually a bunch of goats who have some very boy band-y hairdos. In fact, you could definitely say their 'dos were giving people Backstreet Boy ...

How do you start listening to a band with 22 albums? We’re here to help. By Lindsay Zoladz When an artist you’re curious about but unfamiliar with has an extensive back catalog, it can be difficult to ...