Modest Mouse’s new video for their Strangers To Ourselves single “Lampshades On Fire” is a dizzy barrage of fucked-up and surreal imagery, presented almost entirely without context. A needle pierces a cheek. A mousetrap snaps on some guy’s tongue. A naked man jumps on a bed while Orange Is The New Black st...

To accompany their new album Strangers To Ourselves, Modest Mouse have released what they’re calling a “linguistic remix generator.” If you head over to this website and type in a phrase of up to 96 characters, it’ll generate a visualizer and a short looped remix based on samples from the album, supposedly...

During all the years they spent between albums, Modest Mouse never really stopped touring. So now that it’s time to promote their new Strangers To Ourselves, they’re a polished and locked-in live band. Last night, they squeezed their full nine-piece touring lineup onto Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show stage and played &a...

The band will play a series of UK shows in July

It feels like Modest Mouse have been away forever, so it’s easy to forget that their decline into mediocrity is only one or two albums deep. (If you think The Moon & Antarctica is less than a masterpiece, you’re reading the wrong review.) Whether they fell off one or two albums ago depends on how […]