Last November, Ben Gibbard and Mark Kozelek shared a chain of email exchanges about alienating their fans, living in California, and the gentrification of San Francisco. In the latest installment of The Thread, Ben Gibbard and Kozelek correspond about their lives on the road and the difficulties of touring (Kozelek claims to be “Europe...

Modest Mouse have shared a new song called “Lampshades On Fire,” the lead single to their new album Strangers To Ourselves, their first full-length since 2007′s We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. The track was sent to fans via a limited-edition 7″ over the weekend, and it debuted on radio earlier this...

Modest Mouse have been working on the follow-up to 2007′s We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank for what feels like an eternity — news of an as yet unheard collaboration with Big Boi arrived well over three years ago — but it seems like Isaac Brock might finally be giving us some new [...]

On Thursday night, Big Boi DJed a Coachella party in advance of his second reunion performance as Outkast (which was apparently much better, if you believe music critic Twitter) and dropped some hints to The Hollywood Reporter about what he’ll be up to for the rest of the year. On the rumored Modest Mouse collaboration [...]

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 [...]