The summer festival scene grows ever more crowded, and now a fairly major new one called the Hudson Project Festival has announced that it’ll come to Winston Farm in Saugerties, New York (near the site of the original Woodstock) 7/11-13. Kendrick Lamar, Modest Mouse, the Flaming Lips, and dance music dude Bassnectar will serve as [...]

Arcade Fire have spent the better part of a decade growing into their own majesty. Funeral, for all its estimable sweep, existed very much in the context of early-’00s indie, with all the scraggly yelping and old-timey pianos that were so in vogue in that Modest Mouse/Bright Eyes era. The ambition and enthusiasm were very [...]

Modest Mouse grew up in public, but popular opinion is that they really truly figured it out with 2000′s The Moon & Antarctica, creating one of those of albums that points to some just-out-of-reach understanding of the world. Listening to it, I knew I would eventually understand what Isaac Brock was singing about, but I [...]

The band also pull all of their European and festival shows    

In between Weekend 1 and Weekend 2 of Coachella, Modest Mouse played a show at the Fox Theater in Pomona where they more performed new material after unveiling “Be Brave” during their first stint in Indio. Watch fan videos of “Shit In Your Cut” and “Sugar Boat” below, the latter being s...