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 should be one of your favorite alternative bands of the past few decades. Not all their songs are for everyone, and all might be for none, but if you understand the band, it's a gift.

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 ...