A September run removed 115 mountain goats from the Olympics.
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John Darnielle, professional novelist and Mountain Goats founder, misses moshing.
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Protein source of the future, now, to quote The Mountain Goats.
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Yet, while normally shy, mountain goats have become habituated to humans.
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The mountain goats on Mount Fløyen add to the scenic charm.
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Darnielle put out his first work as the Mountain Goats in 1991.
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Combined, these phenomena afford mountain goats two prized essentials: safety and salt.
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Today's reason to live The Mountain Goats – "Andrew Eldrich Is Moving Back To Leeds"
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In Olympic National Park in Washington state, mountain goats were reintroduced in the 1920s.
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Mountain goats are attracted to sources of salt and minerals to supplement their diet.
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It will feature singers such as Cyndi Lauper, The Roots and The Mountain Goats.
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The article also misquoted a lyric from the song "Tallahassee," by the Mountain Goats.
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"The plan is to reach a zero population level of mountain goats in the park and adjacent Olympic National Forest lands…[removing] approximately 90 percent of the projected 2018 mountain goat population, or approximately 625 to 675 mountain goats," the plan states.
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He's currently hunting for mountain goats in the northern Yukon, just outside the Arctic Circle.
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Other acts, including Cyndi Lauper, Dolly Parton, the Mountain Goats, Rhiannon Giddens, and Against Me!
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They had driven down for winter break, and had already spotted elk and mountain goats.
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Mountain goats that stuck around humans were generally not as vigilant as their backcountry counterparts.
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In the 1920s, humans introduced mountain goats to the Olympics, according to the National Park Service.
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The park is also home to Alaskan wildlife such as whales, mountain goats, bears, and moose.
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Mountain goats were introduced to the area during the 1920s and have colonized the entire region.
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Mountain goats, another iconic Glacier species, bed down on lingering snowpack to cool off in summer.
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The satellite data also revealed that the mountain goats strongly preferred areas closer to snow patches.
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A couple of edits kept up with The Mountain Goats and the band's front man John Darnielle.
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First, a bit about mountain goats: They have many foes, but gravity is not one of them.
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I expected to join the mountain goats and a few hundred hardy souls cheering on the boys.
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Now musician John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is petitioning Senator Al Franken to help make that happen.
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Mountain goats are not native to the Olympic Park area and are considered a threat to native vegetation.
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The Mountain Goats' All Hail West Texas track "The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton" is brilliant.
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Or hike along the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway and spy on mountain goats and elk at various overlooks.
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I took another sip of fortified chamois milk, thinking how those intrepid mountain goats wouldn't turn in early.
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For those seeking to maintain the historic distribution of mountain goats in the park, there are no easy solutions.
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We also have new fiction by Mountain Goats founder and frontman, John Darnielle, and an excerpt from Against Me!
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He was seen hiking and taking a boat trip in which he looked at ibex — mountain goats — through binoculars.
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Playing the game has reminded me, at times, of the Mountain Goats' song "No Children," reimagined as a board game.
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As anyone familiar with the Mountain Goats can imagine, he hasn't donned eyeliner and rouge since he was a teenager.
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Mountain goats occasionally send rocks tumbling down the steep embankment, hurtling past the bisse and the wooden overhang protecting hikers.
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The goal is to get to zero Eventually, the agencies hope to eradicate the mountain goats from the Olympic National Forest.
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Now he is to be honored at Carnegie Hall with a concert featuring the Roots, Cyndi Lauper and the Mountain Goats.
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To us, he's that dude who sings songs and started the Mountain Goats, and who also happens to write incredible fiction.
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In 2014, the Vlogbrothers played a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall alongside guests like Neil Gaiman and the Mountain Goats.
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"Mountain goats have lost so much of where they used to occur historically, meaning from northern Mexico into Arizona," Berger said.
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Last year, researchers published a paper studying how mountain goats attracted to human urine in Montana's Glacier National Park responded to predators.
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But while those were firmly in the Mountain Goats' folk-y rock mode, the band's new album Goths reportedly contains no guitars.
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Darnielle, the lead singer for the band the Mountain Goats, counteracts the sinister with acute sensitivity in this story, his second novel.
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He is to be honored with a concert at Carnegie Hall on March 31 featuring the Roots, Cyndi Lauper and the Mountain Goats.
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He recently followed The Mountain Goats across four states and is planning to do the same this summer when Tool goes on tour.
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Outdoor enthusiasts have a storied history of wrecking nature with their excrement and now, hikers are apparently driving mountain goats crazy with pee.
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Maron asked the musician and novelist John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats) if he forgives the stepfather who abused him: "No," Darnielle said.
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I spend a good chunk of my drive to Tallahassee with the 21980 Mountain Goats album named after the city playing on repeat.
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A series of atmospheric, episodic adventure games, KRZ is a Mountain Goats-y gothic tale of roadside American mystery, and so far completely captivating.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "Mountain goats in Washington State are being airlifted out of Olympic National Park after their population developed a craving for human urine.
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But more importantly, these are the most grandiose and cinematic Mountain Goats songs in the band's catalogue, washed with strings, saxophone, and pristine production.
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But this novel of suspense by the lead songwriter for the Mountain Goats is also a graceful exploration of family, loss and rural life.
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A helicopter crossed the sky dangling strands of drugged, blindfolded mountain goats—as many as five at a time—like a string of furry pearls.
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Musicians ranging from Lenny Kravitz to Mark Ronson to Dam-Funk to The Mountain Goats took to social media Thursday night to express their condolences.
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It's a lo-fi folk song about heavy metal, delivered with a warm, comic touch and an empathetic passion from Mountain Goats auteur John Darnielle.
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The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle makes no apologies for his dad opinions as our music critic, but he does feel awful for disliking The Kinks.
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At Olympic National Park in the state of Washington, hundreds of mountain goats are being airlifted by helicopter and moved to forests in the North Cascades.
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What's more, the wildlife agencies in those states are already managing many large mammals, including mountain lions, elk, American pronghorn, bighorn sheep, mountain goats and moose.
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But human urine is packed with minerals from our salty diets, and mountain goats will forgo those journeys if there is a lot of urine around.
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John Darnielle did not, but as the lead songwriter for the Mountain Goats, he's created pop folk with the quirky cinematic sensibility of a Wes Anderson.
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Speaking to the New York Times last year, Sarmento worried that mountain goats habituated to people and their pee could lose knowledge of natural mineral lick sites.
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A brand new Mountain Goats song quietly hit streaming services this morning and Stereogum reports that the project's 16th studio album, Goths, will be out May 19.
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They have descended on the shores for seaweed and have hiked up into the rocky Arctic desert, much like mountain goats, in pursuit of the vegetation there.
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It's just the US government relocating the mountain goats from Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest in Washington to their natural habitat in the northern Cascade Mountains.
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Universal Harvester: A Novel by John Darnielle Music fans know of John Darnielle as the vocalist and songwriter for The Mountain Goats, but he's become an accomplished novelist.
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In the first century AD the merchants of Mada'in Saleh decorated their mausoleums with carvings of lions, gazelles, rabbits, mountain goats, leopards, hyenas, hyraxes, foxes—even a hedgehog.
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Our last night, we decided to climb the ridge, scrambling up the loose scree like mountain goats and rewarded by a wide plateau, with Mount Jefferson looming above.
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The loss of these important environments is increasing the odds of heat stress and hyperthermia in mountain goats, according to a study published on Wednesday in PLOS One.
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Back in 2015, John Darnielle released Beat the Champ, a sonically understated Mountain Goats album about death, darkness, and defiance told through a childhood obsession with professional wrestling.
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Thanks to the restrictions, endangered species have been able to prosper in the area, including red-crowned cranes, white-naped cranes, mandarin ducks, musk deer, mountain goats and more.
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Rangers in Washington's Olympic National Park have had to tranquilise and airlift hundreds of mountain goats to a new home after the animals developed a taste for human urine.
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The first, The Mountain Goats' "No Children," is a song about how love and hate are all wrapped up in each other sometimes, even in the best of relationships.
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I've loved The Mountain Goats for a long time and actually helped get John Darnielle to cover our theme "Little Boxes" for Weeds when I worked on that show.
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LONDON — Remember that guy that decided being a human is overrated and created special prostheses that allowed him to live among mountain goats in the Alps for three days?
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Mountain Goats auteur John Darnielle's new novel, Universal Harvester, just hit the New York Times Bestseller List, but that doesn't mean that he's putting his songs on the backburner.
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The land has important cultural significance to the shishalh, an indigenous community, and its thickets of cedar and Douglas fir are home to grizzly bears, mountain goats and eagles.
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He's told stories about metal and metalheads in his music as the auteur of The Mountain Goats, from "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" to this year's Goths.
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The misfire resulted in Molinari and course marshals looking like a herd of mountain goats, precariously poking around the cliffside in search of a ball which was eventually found but unplayable.
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"Mountain goats need cooling," said study co-author Joel Berger, a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and a professor in wildlife biology at Colorado State University, in a call.
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I relied a lot on my old favorites—The Mountain Goats, The Weakerthans, Superchunk, and Ted Leo got a lot of play—although they were coupled with more emotional breakdowns than normal.
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John Darnielle, known for over two decades of leading the alt-folk music group The Mountain Goats, has returned to the literary scene with his second novel Universal Harvester, released Feb. 7.
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As a result, many a hiker has strayed off-trail to tinkle and found mountain goats lurking, eager to lick a rock or eat a plant drenched in fresh, life-sustaining urine.
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A MINUS The Mountain Goats: Goths (Merge) Propelled though they are by rock-sturdy Jon Wurster, the arrangements evoke a keyboard-based, explicitly guitarless cocktail jazz of modest drive and less bite.
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Before we start talking about the new Mountain Goats track, "Etruscans," released this morning as part of the Our First 100 Days project, let's look briefly at John Darnielle's most recent political activity.
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Taking a deep look into the survey data, we can see that Brazilian startups are more like mountain goats (or cockroaches) than unicorns: they are not magical, but they are reliable and resilient.
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Trilobites A few years ago, employees at Glacier National Park in Montana noticed that mountain goats were hanging out — even sleeping — far away from cliffs, and spending much of their time near humans.
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Well the thing is, on Twitter, even though the handle is the Mountain Goats and there's a performative aspect to what I write, I am just a guy on the Internet like anyone else.
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The park is unable to introduce predators, such as gray wolves, to eat them, as they are "not effective predators on mountain goats" and would negatively impact other prey animals, such as elk and deer.
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Though the unofficial Greatest Musician of All Time John Williams (fact) will be scoring the film, it turns out that Johnson and Mountain Goats head John Darnielle had some humourous musical ideas of their own.
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There may also be more instances of aggression if mountain goats get more comfortable around people, Mr. Sarmento added, noting that a mountain goat killed a hiker at Olympic National Park in Washington State in 2010.
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A force to be reckoned with, you have the ability to out-climb opponents and strategically make it to the top, the same way mountain goats nimbly leap their way up the steepest cliffs and mountains.
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Yes, Andrew Eldritch, Gene Loves Jezebel, Robert Smith of the Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, and even Celtic Frost are all characters in Darnielle's songs, but the songs still sound like the Mountain Goats' brand of bookish indie rock.
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When I made it to the top of Aasgard Pass and mountain goats wandered around me in search of food, I recall looking down at the inviting, aquamarine waters of Colchuck Lake — one that's fed by melting snow.
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To test how mountain goats reacted to predators, Mr. Sarmento dressed up as a bear and presented himself to goats at both tourist and backcountry sites, noting their responses (yes, this is a credible technique used in ecology research).
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Co-creators Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink have also launched a series of independent shows under the Night Vale Presents banner, including Alice Isn't Dead, The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air) and I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats.
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When the installation opens at the Met Breuer on July 224, the objects — which include both a 230,000-year-old Persian ceramic storage jar painted with mountain goats and Ettore Sottsass's penis-shaped 1973 pink vase "Shiva" — will function as amplifiers.
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Mountain goats, an iconic species that thrives in alpine habitats such as Montana's Glacier National Park, feel the same way on hot summer days, only they cool off using glaciers and snow patches instead of AC units or central air.
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The 2700-year-old philosophy student spends his days lazing around the New Brunswick, New Jersey, campus, drinking green tea out of a silver cup he keeps at his hip, gushing about the hyper-literary indie bands he enjoys like the Mountain Goats.
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Sitka black-tailed deer, a nonnative mammal to Kodiak Island, were first successfully introduced to the island in 1924 as were other nonnative species including reindeer, mountain goats, Roosevelt elk, beaver, red squirrel, snowshoe hare, and pine marten, between the 1920s and 1960s.
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Berger and his colleagues aimed to fill this gap with their study, which is based on GPS satellite tracking of collared mountain goats in Glacier National Park, as well as onsite observations of the animals during the summers of 2013 to 2016.
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The study suggests that the accelerated loss of snow and glaciers over the coming decades will have negative effects on mountain goats, and other cold-adapted species such as reindeer, which rely on these environments to keep them safe from heat exposure.
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Unlike "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds," the lead single from Mountain Goats' forthcoming Goths LP, "Etruscans" is stripped of all but an acoustic guitar, Darnielle's voice, and crackling white noise; the inspiration is an ancient Italian civilization, rather than leftfield heavy metal tales.
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It's all very funny but what makes the show so special are the pre-arranged comedic skits that are done over the phone between 48-Year-old Tom Scharpling and 50-year-old Jon Wurster, the drummer of Superchunk, Bob Mould Band, and Mountain Goats.
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Stretching and moving your limbs—perhaps by taking a walk, or doing some mountain climbing (if you haven't seen photos of mountain goats scaling mountains, Capricorn, you're missing out on a whole lot of inspiration)—are good things to do during this new moon.
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Noisey has covered some standouts—John Darnielle taking The Mountain Goats back to its grainy roots, Mitski fuzzing up One Direction's "Fireproof," Strand Of Oaks descending into madness, Julien Baker making people cry—but even in the last two weeks, some stunning tracks have slipped through.
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When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980 and vaporised 600 square kilometres (230 square miles) of the Cascade mountains in Washington state, the small mammal hunkered down in its burrow, and—unlike elk, mountain goats and coyotes, which perished in their thousands—emerged from the conflagration intact.
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The Roots, Cyndi Lauper, the Mountain Goats, Heart's Ann Wilson, Perry Farrell, Jakob Dylan were all scheduled to take part in The Music of David Bowie at Carnegie Hall concert, with Bowie's longtime collaborator Tony Visconti in charge of the house band, the New York Times reports.
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For a group whose songs touch on everything from '70s reggae stars to LSD-slinging high school quarterbacks – with the occasional detours for the Bible, vampires and Texan death metal bands along the way – the Mountain Goats have amassed one of indie rock's most devoted followings.
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SummerStage is similarly international and cross-generational, bringing the psychedelic legends George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, on their farewell tour (Central Park, June 4), the Colombian rock band Aterciopelados (Queensbridge Park, July 11), and the long-running folk-rock outfit the Mountain Goats (East River Park, Aug. 10).
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Titled Guitar Center and Bain Capital: Let Workers Unite for a Fair Workplace, the petition has drawn support from a massive list of prominent musicians (including Kathleen Hanna, Tom Morello, Ian MacKaye, Laura Jane Grace, Roger Waters, Ted Leo, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, and dozens more).
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Over three years, Mr. Sarmento and his thesis adviser, Joel Berger, a scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and a professor at Colorado State University, closely observed mountain goats near and away from tourist-heavy areas in Glacier National Park, noting where the goats got their minerals and how cautiously they behaved.
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Toys, comics, and books litter his office, the shelves containing a range of topics: the occult, Polish poetry, 1970s experimental science fiction, and at least six books on boxing (Darnielle has written songs about fighters Muhammad Ali and Pinklon Thomas, and there's a boxer on the cover of the Mountain Goats' 2006 album, Get Lonely).
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It's distinctly more urban than the other Alpine spa resorts, but its position — secluded on a promontory 4,000 feet above Merano, along a steep country road winding past apple orchards, flocks of grazing mountain goats, a lovely 14th-century Romanesque church and antique castles — is still detached from the hustle and bustle seen vertiginously below.
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As the scenery changes from green valleys and farm land to the dry, desert-like terrain of Ashcroft, British Columbia, you'll look out the domed windows (or view from the open-air vestibule) and see anything from giant osprey nests and big-horned sheep to mountain goats and bald eagles as the train chugs into Kamloops.
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We took the shuttle bus up to the amphitheater, where a strong wind was blowing, and where — as their parents and grandparents sat on the stone benches encircling the theater and took in the view — the girls ran up and down the levels like graceful little mountain goats and treated the ancient theater as their personal terraced playground.
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The Empty Bottle Chicago: 21+ Years Music / Friendly / Dancing, due out June 7 via publisher Curbside Splendor, collects memories from figures that include everyone from owner Bruce Finkelman to big-name indie musicians like Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips and Damian Kulash of OK Go. John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats wrote the introduction, which sheds some light on his own early career as well.
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It's appropriate, and a little bit of an elbow jab to the band themselves, who have made a career of being an opening band for everyone from Benjamin Booker and The Mountain Goats to Alice in Chains and the Drive-By Truckers (though, if you're one to want a deeper or more nuanced read of songs, you could say life on Earth is like being the opening band for God's main act, or something).
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