The Mountain Goats
Date: Sat, Aug 22, 2026
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Venue: DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham
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Category: Music
"Hi it's John Darnielle and this is the new Mountain Goats bio. Every time you make a record you have to have a new bio and it's a whole thing. Sometimes you have to have conversations about who'd be a good person to write the bio and other times one of the press people does it and you vet it and it goes through a whole process, but we are eliminating the middle man this time. My other job involves writing prose and I'm regarded as decent enough at it so let's fast foward through the prelims here.Days is the something-somethingth album by the Mountain Goats. If that last phrase has a number in it then you will know it has been edited by bad people and you should stop reading now. If it says "something somethingth" then we are still together. Like at least two other tMG albums, specifically Goths and Beat the Champ, Days gets born one day when I have a funny idea. The idea in this case was writing a followup to Goths about the 90s and calling it Grunges. I made this joke on the popular recipes blog "Bluesky" and accompanied it with a brief ad-lib called "Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn" that I recorded in my back yard. But the thing about jokes is there's often something deeper underneath them, most theories of comedy attest to this, don't get me started.
