Roaring ’90s: Modest Mouse stays in tune with poetic, prose-inspired lyrics In 1993, Seattle-based band Modest Mouse took its name from an obscure line in Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall.” The ...

Over the past 20 years or so, Modest Mouse has come out with some unforgettable, inimitable tunes. Distinguished through its lead singer Isaac Brock's aggressive voice and an arsenal of odd ...

Doubt can be experienced in one of two ways. Either it’s a deliberate doubt – upheld by persistent questions railroaded at your reality – or it’s an emotional doubt – anxiety compelled by the ...

Bands like Modest Mouse aren’t supposed to have lingering hits that captivate the nation. Bands like Modest Mouse play music that’s a bit too prickly for mass consumption while still cultivating a ...

With song titles like "Shit Luck," "Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset" and — from his band's latest album, Strangers to Ourselves — "Shit in Your Cut," it's safe to say Modest Mouse frontman Isaac ...

Modest Mouse headlines the Project Pabst music festival at Zidell Yards in Portland, Oregon on Sept. 28, 2014. (David Greenwald/The Oregonian) Modest Mouse's new album has a name: "Strangers to ...

Issac Brock, lead singer and guitarist of Modest Mouse, walked onto Roadrunner’s stage on Dec. 16 with a jean jacket and spiked hair, picked up his guitar, and began to perform a sloppy version of ...

Modest Mouse are wrapping up their tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of Good News For People Who Love Bad News; they hit Brooklyn Steel on Thursday night (11/21) for the first of three shows at ...

This week Modest Mouse announced it would be releasing a full studio album in 2015. Seeing this news put my world on pause for a few minutes until I could internalize every word of it. The world ...

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