After making music with Morrissey during the salad days of his well-chronicled career, music fans might think that Johnny Marr has never worked with a finer wordsmith. However, the former Smiths’ ...

When a band owns a catalog as deep and wide as Modest Mouse — seven full-length albums dating back 27 years, almost all of which contain around an hour's worth of music — fans are bound to hold their ...

In 2004, Modest Mouse released “Good News for People Who Like Bad News,” the album that propelled the alt-rock band from the indie underground into the mainstream. The group will be performing the ...

All day Friday, I kept an eye on the weather forecast, trying to determine if the show on the Waterfront would get rained out, but when I headed over, the sky was bright blue with promise. Being an ...

On March 17, Modest Mouse released its sixth studio album, the first to be released in eight years. Fans heard glimpses of some of the songs on Strangers to Ourselves before the release date at live ...

Since forming in Issaquah, Washington, in 1993, Modest Mouse has become one of the most successful and recognizable alternative-rock groups to come out to the Pacific Northwest. With its distinct ...

Modest Mouse is taking a victory lap 25 years after the fact, celebrating 1997’s “The Lonesome Crowded West” — widely considered to be one of the most important indie-rock records of all time — on its ...

Issac Brock, lead singer and guitarist of Modest Mouse, walked onto Roadrunner’s stage on Dec. 16 with a jean jacket and spiked hair, picked up his guitar, and began to perform a sloppy version of ...