Mountain Goats

Not to be outdone, the Flaming Lips frontman performed "Life on Mars?" while seated atop Chewie's shoulders.

Led by Bowie's longtime producer Tony Visconti, the tribute concerts will also feature the Mountain Goats, Mumford and Sons, Perry Farrell and Amanda Palmer.

In honor of Opening Day, we call up 15 of the best baseball-themed songs (but we can't guarantee that none of the musicians used performance-enhancing drugs.)

Mountain Goats founder John Darnielle wrote a book, and now he's hitting the road to support it.

Mountain Goats primary player John Darnielle has won over many with his unique brand of folk songs. Often lo-fi, usually no longer than four-and-a-half minutes, they feature honest, evocative, highly descriptive lyrics and play out like mini narratives.

Hey, Mountain Goats fans, here's your chance to have your voice be heard by helping principal member John Darnielle have his voice be heard. An online petition has been launched to make Darnielle the U.S. Poet Laureate.

Mountain Goats records are more than collections of songs. They're tangles of short stories, as nerd-folk icon John Darnielle builds characters and moods with scatterings of words and chord progressions. He no longer records on a boombox -- here, the sound is rich with horns and bass -- but he remains as indie as it gets. On the 14th Mountain Goats album, ‘Transcendental Youth,’ he raises goosebum