John Darnielle

John Darnielle ist ein preisgekrönter amerikanischer Autor, Musiker und Podcaster, der am 16. März 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, geboren wurde. Bekannt ist er vor allem für seine Horror-Romane und seine Tätigkeit als Hauptmitglied der Band The Mountain Goats. Darnielle wuchs in Südkalifornien auf und hatte eine belastende Kindheit aufgrund eines gewalttätigen Stiefvaters. Nach der Schule zog er nach Portland, Oregon, wo er eine Abhängigkeit von harten Drogen, einschließlich Methamphetamin, entwickelte.

Darnielle lebt derzeit in Durham, North Carolina, mit seiner Frau, Lalitree, und ihren beiden Söhnen. Neben seiner musikalischen und schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit ist er auch Podcaster und Aktivist. Seine musikalische Karriere begann in den 1990er Jahren, als er damit begann, Musik auf einem Kassettenrekorder aufzunehmen. Er gewann eine Kult-Anhängerschaft und unterschrieb schließlich bei 4AD-Platten im Jahr 2002. Als Hauptmitglied von The Mountain Goats ist Darnielle der Autor, Komponist, Gitarrist, Pianist und Sänger der Band.

Als Autor hat Darnielle in dem Genre Horror ein bemerkenswertes Standing. Sein Debütroman "Wolf in White Van" war 2014 Finalist für den National Book Award für Fiktion. Sein Schreibstil wird oft als poetisch und einprägsam beschrieben, wodurch Leser in seine düsteren und verzerrten Welten gezogen werden. Darnielles persönliche Erfahrungen und Kämpfe mit der Abhängigkeit haben seinen Werdegang beeinflusst, was seinen Geschichten Tiefe und Authentizität verleiht.

Neben seinen musikalischen und literarischen Unternehmungen ist Darnielle auch Podcaster und Aktivist. Er hat seit 2017 einen Podcast mit dem Titel "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats", in dem er über seine Musik spricht und Geschichten aus seinem Leben teilt. Als Aktivist setzt sich Darnielle für soziale und politische Anliegen ein und nutzt seine Plattform, um auf Probleme aufmerksam zu machen und positive Veränderungen zu fördern. Insgesamt ist John Darnielle ein talentierter und vielseitiger Künstler, der sein Publikum nach wie vor mit seiner Musik und seinen Geschichten begeistert und fesselt.
Einzelromane
# Titel Jahr
1 Wolf in White Van 2014
2 Universal Harvester 2017
3 Devil House 2022
33⅓ Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Smiths' Meat is Murder (By: Joe Pernice) 2003
2 The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (By: Andy Miller) 2003
3 Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis (By: Warren Zanes) 2003
4 Neil Young's Harvest (By: Sam Inglis) 2003
5 Love's Forever Changes (By: Andrew Hultkrans) 2003
6 Abba's Abba Gold (By: Elisabeth Vincentelli) 2004
7 Prince's Sign 'O' the Times (By: Michaelangelo Matos) 2004
8 The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (By: Joe Harvard) 2004
9 Unknown Pleasures (By: Chris Ott) 2004
10 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland (By: John M. Perry) 2004
11 The Replacements' Let It Be (By: Colin Meloy) 2004
12 James Brown's Live at the Apollo (By: Douglas Wolk) 2004
13 Jethro Tull's Aqualung (By: Allan F. Moore) 2004
14 The Beatles' Let It Be (By: Steve Matteo) 2004
15 Radiohead's OK Computer (By: Dai Griffiths) 2004
16 Pet Sounds (By: Jim Fusilli) 2005
17 The Ramones' Ramones (By: Nicholas Rombes) 2005
18 Led Zeppelin IV (By: Erik Davis) 2005
19 The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (By: Bill Janovitz) 2005
20 Grace (By: Daphne A. Brooks) 2005
21 Armed Forces (By: Franklin Bruno) 2005
22 Murmur (By: J. Niimi) 2005
23 Low (By: Hugo Wilcken) 2005
24 Endtroducing (By: Eliot Wilder) 2005
25 Kick Out the Jams (By: Don McLeese) 2005
26 Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (By: Geoffrey Himes) 2005
27 The Band's Music From Big Pink (By: John Niven) 2005
28 Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (By: Kim Cooper) 2005
29 The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses (By: Alex Green) 2006
30 Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On (By: Miles Marshall Lewis) 2006
31 The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (By: Dan LeRoy) 2006
32 Doolittle (By: Ben Sisario) 2006
33 Nirvana's In Utero (By: Gillian G. Gaar) 2006
34 Highway 61 Revisited (By: Mark Polizzotti) 2006
35 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (By: David Barker) 2006
36 The Who's The Who Sell Out (By: John Dougan) 2006
37 Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand (By: Marc Woodworth) 2006
38 My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (By: Mike McGonigal) 2006
39 The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (By: L.D. Beghtol) 2006
40 Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II (By: Eric Weisbard) 2006
41 Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (By: Zeth Lundy) 2006
42 Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark (By: Sean Nelson) 2006
43 Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation (By: Matthew Stearns) 2007
44 The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers (By: Ric Menck) 2007
45 Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (By: Kevin Courrier) 2007
46 The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (By: Michael T. Fournier) 2007
47 A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (By: Shawn Taylor) 2007
48 Brian Eno's Another Green World (By: Geeta Dayal) 2007
49 Steely Dan's Aja (By: Don Breithaupt) 2007
50 Rid of Me (By: Kate Schatz) 2007
51 PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story (By: Kate Schatz) 2007
52 U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall (By: Stephen Catanzarite) 2007
53 Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister (By: Scott Plagenhoef) 2007
54 Pink Moon (By: Amanda Petrusich) 2007
55 Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (By: Carl Wilson) 2007
56 Swordfishtrombones (By: David Smay) 2007
57 Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (By: Drew Daniel) 2007
58 Master of Reality 2008
59 Patti Smith's Horses (By: Philip Shaw) 2008
60 Slayer's Reign in Blood (By: D.X. Ferris) 2008
61 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future (By: Dan Kois) 2008
62 Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights (By: Hayden Childs) 2008
63 The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen (By: Bob Gendron) 2008
64 The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (By: Jeffrey T. Roesgen) 2008
65 Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin (By: Bob Proehl) 2008
66 Wire's Pink Flag (By: Wilson Neate) 2008
67 Big Star's Radio City (By: Bruce Eaton) 2008
68 Elliott Smith's XO (By: Matthew LeMay) 2009
69 Illmatic (By: Matthew Gasteier) 2009
70 Madness' One Step Beyond... (By: Terry Edwards) 2009
71 Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (By: Mark Richardson) 2009
72 Fleetwood Mac's Tusk (By: Rob Trucks) 2009
73 AC DC's Highway To Hell (By: Joe Bonomo) 2010
74 Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (By: Christopher R. Weingarten) 2010
75 Pavement's Wowee Zowee (By: Bryan Charles) 2010
76 Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle (By: Richard Henderson) 2010
77 Slint's Spiderland (By: Scott Tennent) 2010
78 Radiohead's Kid A (By: Marvin Lin) 2010
79 Johnny Cash's American Recordings (By: Tony Tost) 2011
80 Ween's Chocolate and Cheese (By: Hank Shteamer) 2011
81 The Rolling Stones' Some Girls (By: Cyrus R.K. Patell) 2011
82 Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine (By: Daphne Carr) 2011
83 Talking Heads' Fear of Music (By: Jonathan Lethem) 2011
84 Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me (By: Nick Attfield) 2011
85 Television's Marquee Moon (By: Bryan Waterman) 2011
86 Portishead's Dummy (By: R.J. Wheaton) 2011
87 Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (By: Aaron Cohen) 2011
88 Dangerous (By: Susan Fast) 2012
89 Flood (By: Elizabeth Sandifer, S. Alexander Reed) 2013
90 Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (By: Darran Anderson) 2013
91 Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (By: Kirk Walker Graves) 2014
92 Sigur Rós's (By: Ethan Hayden) 2014
93 Andrew W.K.'s I Get Wet (By: Phillip Crandall) 2014
94 Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II (By: Marc Weidenbaum) 2014
95 Entertainment! (By: Kevin J.H. Dettmar) 2014
96 Smile (By: Luis A. Sanchez) 2014
97 Blank Generation (By: Pete Astor) 2014
98 J Dilla's Donuts (By: Jordan Ferguson) 2014
99 Oasis' Definitely Maybe (By: Alex Niven) 2014
100 Exile in Guyville (By: Gina Arnold) 2014
101 The Grey Album (By: Charles Fairchild) 2014
102 Beat Happening (By: Bryan C. Parker) 2015
103 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (By: Michael Stewart Foley) 2015
104 Freedom of Choice (By: Fred Armisen, Evie Nagy) 2015
105 Workingman's Dead (By: Buzz Poole) 2015
106 A Live One (By: Walter Holland) 2015
107 Metallica (By: David Masciotra) 2015
108 Bitches Brew (By: George Grella Jr.) 2015
109 Parallel Lines (By: Kembrew McLeod) 2016
110 The Geto Boys (By: Rolf Potts) 2016
111 Psychocandy (By: Paula Mejia) 2016
112 Hangin' Tough (By: Rebecca Wallwork) 2016
113 Dig Me Out (By: Jovana Babovic) 2016
114 Donny Hathaway's Donny Hathaway Live (By: Emily J. Lordi) 2016
115 Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (By: Clare Nina Norelli) 2017
116 Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth (By: Michael Blair) 2017
117 Uptown Saturday Night (By: William Fulton, Patrick Rivers) 2017
118 The Suburbs (By: Eric Eidelstein) 2017
119 Bob Mould's Workbook (By: Walter Biggins, Daniel Couch) 2017
120 Homogenic (By: Emily MacKay) 2017
121 The Raincoats (By: Jenn Pelly) 2017
122 Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (By: Ronen Givony) 2018
123 Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker (By: Joe Gross) 2018
124 Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera (By: Rien Fertel) 2018
125 Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (By: Samantha Bennett) 2018
126 Tori Amos's Boys for Pele (By: Amy Gentry) 2018
127 dc Talk’s Jesus Freak (By: Will Stockton, D. Gilson) 2018
128 Odetta’s One Grain of Sand (By: Matthew Frye Jacobson) 2019
129 Tom Petty’s Southern Accents (By: Michael Washburn) 2019
130 The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las (By: Ada Wolin) 2019
131 Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible (By: David Evans) 2019
132 Massive Attack’s Blue Lines (By: Ian Bourland) 2019
133 The Wild Tchoupitoulas’ The Wild Tchoupitoulas (By: Bryan Wagner) 2019
134 Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach (By: Roshanak Kheshti) 2019
135 Murder Ballads (By: Santi Elijah Holley) 2020
136 D’Angelo’s Voodoo (By: Faith Pennick) 2020
137 David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (By: Glenn Hendler) 2020
138 Elton John's Blue Moves (By: Matthew Restall) 2020
139 Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall (By: Manuel Betancourt) 2020
140 Suicide's Suicide (By: Andi Coulter) 2020
141 Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (By: Ray Padgett) 2020
142 Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope (By: Ayanna Dozier) 2020
143 Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis (By: Eric Wolfson) 2020
144 24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (By: Zach Schonfeld) 2020
145 Carole King's Tapestry (By: Loren Glass) 2021
146 Pearl Jam's Vs. (By: Clint Brownlee) 2021
147 Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time (By: Alex Jeffery) 2021
148 Duran Duran's Rio (By: Annie Zaleski) 2021
149 Roxy Music's Avalon (By: Simon A. Morrison) 2021
150 Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (By: Colin Fleming) 2021
151 Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (By: Alyssa Favreau) 2021
152 Lyric and Coloratura Arias (By: Ginger Dellenbaugh) 2021
153 Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (By: Sequoia Maner) 2022
154 Britney Spears's Blackout (By: Natasha Lasky) 2022
155 Earth, Wind & Fire's That's the Way of the World (By: Dwight E. Brooks) 2022
156 Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (By: Brittnay L. Proctor) 2022
157 Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle (By: Selena Chambers) 2023
158 Madvillain's Madvillainy (By: Will Hagle) 2023
159 BBC Radiophonic Workshop (By: William L. Weir) 2023
160 Body Count (By: Ben Apatoff) 2023
161 Erotica (By: Michael Dango) 2023
162 Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love (By: Leah Kardos) 2024
163 John Cale's Paris 1919 (By: Mark Doyle) 2025
164 Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll (By: Chris Tapley) 2025
165 The B-52s' Cosmic Thing (By: Pete Crighton) 2025
Sachbücher
# Titel Jahr
1 Master of Reality 2008
John Darnielle Anthologies
# Titel Jahr
1 Topograph: New Writing from the Carolinas and the Landscape Beyond 2010