The Mountain Goats announce their new album, Days, will arrive on August 7th, 2026 via along with the announcement, the band is sharing lead single “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds.”

The band has announced world tour dates through the end of 2026. The 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, NY.

“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.’ 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. Most songs here are in major keys but don’t let that fool you. If you do let that fool you I have a bridge to sell you; there is nothing on the other side of the bridge. Still, you shouldn’t let that deter you. Who am I to tell you what kind of bridge you need, or where the bridge you need should lead? Nobody, really. Nobody at all,” says John Darnielle.

Days was produced by John Congleton and recorded at Sear Sound in Manhattan. The sessions featured Rob Jost on bass and French horn, group backing vocals from Catherine Russsell, Jamie and Carolyn Leonhart, and layered backing vocals by Janis Siegal of The Manhattan Transfer on “Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums.” Additionally, old friend Matt Nathanson contributed vocals to “Candlebox,” and Mikaela Davis added harp to “Going to Fennario.”

The Mountain Goats
Days
Tracklisting
Cadmean Dawn Records

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

The Mountain Goats 2026 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 – SOLD OUT
07/10 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre ^
08/08 – Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square *
08/09 – Seattle, WA @ ZooTunes at Woodland Park Zoo *
08/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
08/15 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
08/16 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
08/17 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
08/19 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom
08/20 – Lititz, 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, DE @ 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

Pre-order Days by The Mountain Goats HERE