Roaring ’90s: Modest Mouse stays in tune with poetic, prose-inspired lyrics In 1993, Seattle-based band Modest Mouse took its name from an obscure line in Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall.” The ...

Washington-based rock band Modest Mouse has been making powerful and poetic music since 1993. On March 17, the band released their first album in eight years, Strangers to Ourselves. Though it's been ...