John Darnielle è un autore, musicista e podcaster americano acclamato, nato il 16 marzo 1967 a Bloomington, Indiana. È noto principalmente per i suoi romanzi horror e per il suo lavoro come membro principale del gruppo The Mountain Goats. Darnielle è cresciuto in California meridionale e ha avuto un'infanzia difficile a causa di un patrigno violento. Dopo la scuola superiore, si è trasferito a Portland, Oregon, dove ha sviluppato una dipendenza da droghe pesanti, tra cui metanfetamina.
Attualmente, Darnielle risiede a Durham, Carolina del Nord, con sua moglie, Lalitree, e i loro due figli. Oltre alla sua carriera musicale e letteraria, è anche un podcaster e attivista. La sua carriera musicale è iniziata negli anni '90 quando ha iniziato a registrare musica su un registratore a cassette. Ha guadagnato un seguito di culto ed ha infine firmato con la 4AD records nel 2002. Come membro principale dei The Mountain Goats, Darnielle è il compositore, chitarrista, pianista, cantante e cantautore della band.
Come autore, Darnielle ha avuto un impatto significativo nel genere horror. Il suo romanzo d'esordio, "Wolf in White Van", è stato finalista al National Book Award for Fiction nel 2014. Lo stile di scrittura di Darnielle è spesso descritto come poetico ed evocativo, in grado di immergere i lettori nei suoi mondi oscuri e contorti. Le esperienze personali e le lotte di Darnielle con la dipendenza hanno influenzato il suo lavoro, aggiungendo profondità e autenticità alle sue storie.
Oltre alle sue attività musicali e letterarie, Darnielle è anche un podcaster e attivista. Ha ospitato un podcast chiamato "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats" dal 2017, dove discute la sua musica e condivide storie della sua vita. Come attivista, Darnielle si è espresso su questioni sociali e politiche, utilizzando la sua piattaforma per sensibilizzare e promuovere un cambiamento positivo. Nel complesso, John Darnielle è un artista di talento e versatile che continua a ispirare e affascinare il pubblico con la sua musica e la sua scrittura.
Romanzi singoli
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1
Wolf in White Van
2014
2
Universal Harvester
2017
3
Devil House
2022
33⅓ Books
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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)