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Modest Mouse have announced plans for a 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Good News For People Who Love Bad News’.READ MORE: Modest Mouse on their most hopeful album yet: “I found optimism – because I needed it”The release comes with eight additional remixes from the likes of MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden (‘The View’), Jacknife Lee (‘Bury Me With It’), Dan the Automator (‘Float On’), and Justin Raisen (‘The Good Times Are Killing Me’).The band have shared a remix of ‘Ocean Breathes Salty’ by Poolside, which you can listen to below.The digital expanded edition is out April 5, and a vinyl reissue will follow on May 17. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.The band have also finally shared the video for ‘The World At Large/Stiff Animal Fantasy’, which Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock co-directed with Jason Foster.

Modest Mouse have been “tentatively” planning an anniversary tour to celebrate 20 years of their landmark album ‘Good News For People Who Love Bad News’.The band celebrated the album’s 20th birthday with a reissue and expanded edition featuring eight additional remixes from the likes of MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden (‘The View’), Jacknife Lee (‘Bury Me With It’), Dan the Automator (‘Float On’), and Justin Raisen (‘The Good Times Are Killing Me’).Now, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has told Rolling Stone in a new interview that he was hoping to tour the album with the original members of the band who played on the album.“It’s the only record where I can do a tour with all the living members, all the exact same members,” he said. This is the case because it is the band’s only record to not feature late drummer Jeremiah Green due to his temporary departure from the band.

Pixies and Modest Mouse have announced their joint 2024 US tour with Cat Power which is set to kick off later this year.The co-headlining tour will see Power provide opening support and is set to kick off on Friday, May 31 at the Firefly Distillery in Charleston, South Carolina. From there, the are set to make stops in major cities such as Nashville, Atlanta, Pittsburg, Toronto, Philadelphia, Queens, Mansfield, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin, Irving and more.The tour will wrap up on Sunday, June 30 at Fiddler’s Green in Denver, Colorado.

Pixies, Modest Mouse and Cat Power have announced a joint tour of North America – see all the dates below and buy tickets here.The three bands will hit the road in August and September, and they come in addition to upcoming May dates for Pixies in support of their new album ‘Doggerel’.The tour begins in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 20, running for the following month before finishing up in San Diego, California on September 16.See the full list of tour dates below. Tickets are on sale on Friday, March 31 at 10am local time.

Rivers Cuomo finally made a duet with TikToker Evan Marselli, who has been playing the ‘Buddy Holly’ riff every day for the past three years.Marselli started the project in 2020 as a challenge for Cuomo to duet with him. As of February 26, he has played the riff 990 days in a row. The challenge has garnered him over 15,000 followers and 934,500 likes on the platform.Cuomo dueted with Marselli on day 990, along with the text, “Challenge you to come play this live on Weezer’s Indie Rock Road Trip Tour this summer.

Modest Mouse have announced a North American tour celebrating two and a half decades since they released their breakthrough second album, 1997’s ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’.Kicking off in November, the band will tour as a four-piece on the road, with founding members Isaac Brock and Jeremiah Green joined by Russell Higbee and Simon O’Connor – who joined the band in 2012 and 2021 respectively.The 20-date tour will begin at the Wilma Theater in Missoula on November 18 and will continue along to Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and more before wrapping up on December 17 at Terminal 5 in New York. See dates and venues below – tickets go on sale this Friday (September 9) at 10am local time.For the tour, Modest Mouse are reissuing ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’ as a picture disc.

Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has covered ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ for a new documentary. Check out his cover below.The song is being used in the upcoming documentary Claydream, which follows the life of Oscar-winning claymation pioneer Will Vinton.A synopsis of the film reads: “A modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential.

The Cribs have spoken to NME about how “perverse” it seems that their first three albums have re-entered the Top 10, as well as sharing some thoughts on the “indie sleaze” phenomenon.The Wakefield indie-punk trio are currently playing a run of intimate shows across the UK after re-issuing their first three records – 2004 debut ‘The Cribs’, 2005 follow-up ‘The New Fellas’ and 2007’s ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’.Now in the midweek album charts, their debut is at Number Eight, ‘The New Fellas’ is at Number Seven, and their breakthrough third album has crashed into the Top Five at Number Four – just beneath new releases by Maggie Rogers and Harry Styles, and Beyoncé’s latest effort ‘Renaissance’.“We’ve been so busy playing multiple shows a day and haven’t really had any days off, so we haven’t really had chance to process it yet – but it’s certainly not what we were expecting when we did these reissues,” frontman Ryan Jarman told NME. “The fundamental reason for doing these reissues was because the vinyl had been out of print for such a long time.“We didn’t expect anything like this, but it’s amazing.

Modest Mouse have announced details of three special UK headline shows that they’ll play in July.The band will tour this summer in support of their seventh album ‘The Golden Casket’, which was released in June 2021.Modest Mouse will head to the UK for a string of tour dates in July, with three headline shows set to take place in London, Glasgow and Manchester following a run of European gigs.“We’re very lucky to get to be here, on any trip,” Modest Mouse lead singer and guitarist Isaac Brock said of the announcement. “Whatever this is and whatever we all are, it’s kind of beautiful that we get to do it.”A post shared by Modest Mouse (@modestmouse)You can see details of Modest Mouse’s upcoming UK tour dates below, with tickets set to go on sale on Friday (March 4) from here.July18 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London20 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow21 – Albert Hall, ManchesterModest Mouse were also announced as part of the line-up for Latitude 2022 earlier today (March 1), with Foals, Lewis Capaldi and Snow Patrol headlining.The band are already set to perform at a number of European festivals, including Roskilde, Rock Werchter and Mad Cool Festival, this summer.

Modest Mouse have announced a new North American tour with The Cribs, due to take place this spring.The two bands have long had a link, with the Wakefield trio recruiting the Portland band’s Joe Plummer to add some percussion to some tracks in 2007. Later, in 2008, Johnny Marr completed his touring duties with Modest Mouse and left the line-up to join The Cribs, with whom he played for three years.Now the groups are hitting the road together for a number of gigs across North America, which will begin in Baltimore in April.

EMA (aka Erika Anderson) has shared a dizzying cover of Modest Mouse’s 1997 track ‘Trailer Trash’.She puts an emotive spin on the tune – which first appeared on the band’s second album, ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’ – by trading its scratchy, straightforward guitar riffs with chimey, melancholic piano chords stacked spatially under Anderson’s warm, droning vocal.Have a listen to the cover below, then compare it to the Modest Mouse version.Anderson’s new take on ‘Trailer Trash’ is the second track

Modest Mouse performed the majority of their second album ‘The Lonesome Crowd West’ at a benefit show in Seattle last week – you can see footage below.The band appeared at the annual Seattle Musicians for Children’s Hospital (SMooCH) last Friday (December 11), delivering a throwback set that included songs they haven’t played live in more than a decade: ‘Polar Opposites’ and ‘Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine’ were performed live for the first time since 2001 and 2008, respectively.Their set at the

Modest Mouse have shared details of new 2022 tour dates, taking place across the US and Europe – see the full schedule below.The shows, which come on the back of the band’s recent album ‘The Golden Casket’, which came out earlier this year, begin in the United States in April and feature a slot at next year’s Just Like Heaven festival in California, headlining alongside Interpol, The Shins and M.I.A.After the mix of headline shows and festival dates in the States, the band will then head to

Modest Mouse made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote their forthcoming seventh album, ‘The Golden Casket’, performing lead single ‘We Are Between’.Playing from an apartment set-up littered with foliage (and a pink statue of an elephant), the band delivered a sharp and impassioned performance that makes the track sound even more enormous than it does on disc.Check it out below:‘The Golden Casket’ is set to land tomorrow (June 25) via Epic/Sony, marking the band’s

Johnny Marr has responded to the possibility of returning to Modest Mouse, after the band’s Isaac Brock told NME “the option’s available” should the former Smiths guitarist wish to rejoin.Marr was part of the Modest Mouse set-up between 2006 and 2008, playing on the band’s album ‘We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank’ in 2007.Marr previously told NME in 2018 that he’d be open to reuniting with the band, saying: “I’ve got a feeling that Modest Mouse is a chapter that’s yet to be

Modest Mouse have said that “the option’s available” for Johnny Marr to return to the band one day.The former Smiths guitarist was part of the Modest Mouse set-up between 2006 and 2008, playing on the band’s ‘We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank’ album in 2007.Marr previously told NME in 2018 that he’d be open to reuniting with the band, saying: “I’ve got a feeling that Modest Mouse is a chapter that’s yet to be finished.”Speaking to NME for a new interview ahead of the release of their latest

Modest Mouse have shared a third preview of their new album – listen to the poppy ‘The Sun Hasn’t Left’ below.The band will release new album ‘The Golden Casket‘, their first album in six years, next week (June 25) via Epic Records.After sharing singles ‘We Are Between’ and ‘Leave A Light On’, the duo – frontman Isaac Brock and drummer Jeremiah Green – have now returned with a psychedelic final preview of the record.Listen to ‘The Sun Hasn’t Left’ below.To launch ‘The Golden Casket’, the band

Modest Mouse have shared a video for recent single ‘We Are Between’ – you can watch it below.Directed by Kyle Thrash, the video features lead singer Isaac Brock stranded amongst a field of cars, with various characters, some real and some not, flashing in and out of view.‘We Are Between’ is taken from Modest Mouse’s upcoming seventh album, ‘The Golden Casket’, their first new album in six years; it arrives on June 25.Produced with Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee in Los Angeles and Modest Mouse’s

Modest Mouse have shared their second single of 2021, ‘Leave a Light On’.The new follows the release of ‘We Are Between’ at the start of the month, which was the band’s first official single in two years.

Future Islands have announced details of a huge 60-date tour of the UK, Europe and North America – see the dates below.The ‘Calling Out In Space’ tour comes on the back of the band’s 2020 album ‘As Long As You Are’, and will take place across the end of this year and into the first half of 2022.The US leg of the tour, which begins in early September, will see the band joined by Modest Mouse and Hinds on select dates.Future Islands will then come to the UK and Europe in 2022, with a huge London

Modest Mouse have announced they will return in June with ‘The Golden Casket’, marking their first new album in six years.The seventh record from the ‘Float On’ band will arrive on June 25, and has been previewed today (May 5) with the anthemic new single ‘We Are Between’.Produced with Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee in Los Angeles and Modest Mouse’s Portland studio, the record is said to reflect “the liminal space between raw punk power and experimental studio science,” according to an official