Modest Mouse

Twelve years ago this week: future platinum-selling Modest Mouse released their second full-length album, The Lonesome Crowded West , one of the best albums of the '90s. Read More

"I love the band, anyway," the Modest Mouse and former Smiths guitarist tells Billboard.com . "I was living in Portland, OR - which I still do some of the time - and Gary [Jarman] from the band lives there, too. We met and we just struck up a friendship and hung out together. We just got together to play as friends, really, to kind of see what would happen. We didn't have any 'Johnny Marr and the Cribs' kind of big agenda or anything. We got together and immediately we wrote the first song on the album, 'We Were Aborted.' The ideas came thick and fast. It was very organic." Read More

Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument retailer, today announced the unveiling of its innovative online "Wish List Poster Creator" ( www.guitarcenter.com/wishlist ). Read More

The first included the album version of "Ocean Breathes Salty", as well as a live studio recording of " Float On ". Read More

Only Modest Mouse could have released an album this awe-inspiring and have no one give a shit. Read More

Modest Mouse, a nearly two-decade old indie rock band highly criticized for their atheist lyrical themes, released their fifth album, No One's First and You're Next , on August 4, 2009. Read More

I had such high hopes for The Lonesome Crowded West . Read More

The indie rock band Modest Mouse is getting the royal treatment from Bent Image Lab director Nando Costa. Read More

A lovely new video for Modest Mouse , by Bent Image Lab 's Nando Costa . Read More

"I'm not sure. I guess it is because of our name." Read More