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 […]

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It’s been eight years since the last time they managed to release a new LP, but Modest Mouse are a week away from releasing their new album Strangers To Ourselves. It’s looking like we won’t have to wait anywhere near that long before they come out with something new. Speaking to HMV, frontman Isaac Brock [&#823...

In March 1997, thousands of people in Phoenix saw lights in the sky, and the “Phoenix Lights” story is one of the great mythical UFO sightings in history. Isaac Brock was there. The Modest Mouse frontman recently told Studio 360’s Kurt Anderson the story: He was on his way to master the album The Lonesome [&#823...

Modest Mouse have announced tour dates to coincide with the March 17 release of Strangers to Ourselves