The Mountain Goats

John Darnielle's 14th-ish Mountain Goats album bursts open with surging strums, seething intensity and a lyric - "Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive" - that grits teeth in the face of near-unendurable circumstances.

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Posted: Thu, Oct. 11, 2012, 12:00 AM

The Mountain Goats

Thu., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., $18-$24.50, with Matthew E. White, TLA, 334 South St.

K. Ross Hoffman

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