Three decades after Modest Mouse’s scrappy Northwest beginnings, Isaac Brock returns with “An Eraser And A Maze,” a new album ...

Modest Mouse's new album, An Eraser and a Maze, includes several songs one might interpret as being about grieving death. The track "Third Side of the Moon," for example, finds frontman Isaac Brock ...

Death looms large over the new Modest Mouse album. There is a particular cruelty to this, given that the Portland, ...

Modest Mouse has released a new album, but does it hold up well against the band's best? Longtime fans might be disappointed.

Isaac Brock takes stock and zones out on the band's enjoyable, messy new album An Eraser And a Maze ...

Here’s some good news for people who love good news: Modest Mouse are hitting the high seas. The indie rock legends and Sixthman, the “leader in festivals and music cruises,” have teamed up for Modest ...

Modest Mouse are once again parting ways with some gear and that includes giving away one of their most iconic instruments, the Hondo II banjo that they’ve had since the ’90s. “The banjo was collected ...

There’s something about one century concluding and another beginning that makes artists feel extra ambitious. As the end of the ’90s loomed, it became de rigueur for forward-thinking indie and ...

On the surface, Modest Mouse’s 22-year narrative might seem similar to the band’s still-active contemporaries who also originated in American first- and second-generation post hardcore or indie rock.

Countless indie darlings have made the jump from cred-laden buzz band to major label fixture. Just ask R.E.M., The Replacements, and Sonic Youth. A whole new generation of underground acts made the ...