After making music with Morrissey during the salad days of his well-chronicled career, music fans might think that Johnny Marr has never worked with a finer wordsmith. However, the former Smiths’ ...

When a band owns a catalog as deep and wide as Modest Mouse — seven full-length albums dating back 27 years, almost all of which contain around an hour's worth of music — fans are bound to hold their ...

In 2004, Modest Mouse released “Good News for People Who Like Bad News,” the album that propelled the alt-rock band from the indie underground into the mainstream. The group will be performing the ...

All day Friday, I kept an eye on the weather forecast, trying to determine if the show on the Waterfront would get rained out, but when I headed over, the sky was bright blue with promise. Being an ...

Since forming in Issaquah, Washington, in 1993, Modest Mouse has become one of the most successful and recognizable alternative-rock groups to come out to the Pacific Northwest. With its distinct ...

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Modest Mouse recently announced a tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album Good News for People Who Love Bad News. The expanded edition of the album arrived on April 5 ...

Modest Mouse is taking a victory lap 25 years after the fact, celebrating 1997’s “The Lonesome Crowded West” — widely considered to be one of the most important indie-rock records of all time — on its ...

Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington and over the last decade has become the indie rock standard and one of the few bands capable of treading the narrow path where massive ...

For Johnny Marr, one moment crystalizes his brief tenure with Modest Mouse. It was 2006, and the British guitarist, long revered for co-founding the Smiths, now found himself in a situation unsuited ...