Given the unlikely, phenomenal success of Modest Mouse's 2004 disc "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," the story line on the new album seemed sure to focus on the long-indie band's response to ...

Modest Mouse has announced a tour of the US without guitarist Johnny Marr, who is busy working on an album with The Cribs. No word is he is still an official member of the band or not. I hope he is.

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Johnny Marr played to a sold-out crowd at the Eastern on Thursday evening. Marr, who rose to fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of The Smiths, has also ...

Manchester guitar god Johnny Marr, who turned 60 on Halloween, is best-known for his work in a bunch of different bands — the Smiths, obviously, but also Electronic, Modest Mouse, and a bunch of ...

For you Smiths fans out there, be advised that a certain guitarist will not be touring with Modest Mouse this time, though they insist he’s still in the band. Even without Johnny Marr, though, Isaac ...

The Smiths had split but Marr’s phone would not stop ringing. He would go on to play with Talking Heads, the Pretenders, Modest Mouse, the Cribs, dropping in every now and again for a cameo with ...