Modest Mouse has released a new album, but does it hold up well against the band's best? Longtime fans might be disappointed.

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Modest Mouse were the perfect “right time, right place” band for the early Aughts indie-rock gold rush. They had legit Nineties alt-rock bona fides (Beat Happening’s Calvin Johnson co-produced Mouse’s ...

On November 18, 1997, a trio of young punks from Issaquah, Washington named Modest Mouse released their second album, The Lonesome Crowded West. It was not an immediate sensation — by the time the ...

Modest Mouse perfected an underground sound that melted angsty emo and light-hearted folk with experimental rock for something entirely their own. When the outfit – originally made up of frontman ...

The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse will spend the end of their summer on the road together. The two bands will co-headline an upcoming North American tour with support from guest openers Friko and Dehd ...

Known in the mainstream for their 2004 YOLO anthem, “Float On,” Modest Mouse has churned out six albums in the last 12 years whose only constants are frontman Isaac Brock’s anguished yowl, abundant ...

Founded in Washington in the early 1990’s, Modest Mouse established itself as a band that helped define the sound of the Pacific Northwest indie rock scene. Their music is filled with quirky, ...