The Mountain Goats have released “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds,” the lead single off their 24th full-length album, “Days,” out August 7th, 2026.
The Mountain Goats, AKA John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster have also announced a world tour, with dates through the end of 2026.
“This album began life as Grunges, a sequel to Goths, after I made a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn,’” Darnielle said. “A few months later my wife left town for a two week residency in Virginia. My wife leaving town to play hockey in Banff is how ‘All Hail West Texas’ happened.
“These songs are loosely about the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, which is to say they’re about the accumulation of days, each one a little further back than the next, sometimes miraculously seeming clearer as they recede and sometimes blurring into unrecognizable shapes which are sometimes pleasant and sometimes troubling.”
The world tour kicks off May 15 at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, Md., and includes stops throughout North America, Europe, United Kingdom and concludes with stops at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA and Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York, N.Y. For more info go here.
| TOUR DATES:
05/15 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring 05/16 – Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater – SOLD OUT 05/17 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall 05/19 – Boston, MA @ Citizens House of Blues 05/21 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall 05/22 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Beer Garden 05/23 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue Theatre 05/24 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall – SOLD OUT 05/26 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville 05/28 – Lexington, KY @ Manchester Music Hall 05/29 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre 05/30 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club 05/31 – Charleston, SC @ Spoleto Festival USA 06/25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest 06/26 – Berwyn, IL @ Fitzgeralds Outdoors 07/10 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 08/08 – Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square ^ 08/09 – Seattle, WA @ ZooTunes at Woodland Park Zoo * 08/15 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame * 08/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre 08/16 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls 08/17 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Hall Ballroom 08/19 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom 08/20 – Litiz, PA @ Mickey’s Black Box 08/21 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva 08/22 – Durham, NC @ DPAC 10/05 – Helsinki, FI @ Kuudes Linja # – SOLD OUT 10/07 – Stockholm, SE @ Nalen # 10/08 – Oslo, NO @ Vulkan Arena # 10/10 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset 10/11 – Berlin, DE @ Metropol 10/12 – Hamburg, Germany @ Pop Seasons at Christianskirche 10/13 – Ghent, BE @ De Centrale # 10/14 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg # 10/16 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall # 10/18 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street # 10/19 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom # 10/21 – London, UK @ Hackney Church # – SOLD OUT 10/22 – London, UK @ Hackney Church # 10/23 – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon # 11/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall 12/10 – New York, NY @ Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall 12/11 – New York, NY @ Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall – SOLD OUT ^ w/ The Avett Brothers * w/ The Hold Steady # w/ Craig Finn @ Expanded Line-Up |
| TRACK LIST:
1. Song for Layne Staley 2. Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds 3. Shallow Grave 4. Candlebox 5. Annie Haslam Imperial Phase 6. Crying on Eddie Nash’s Grave 7. Days 8. Best Hard Rock Albums 2013 9. Going to Fennario 10. Woodstock 11. Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums 12. Last Day |
Check out the new single here: