Modest MouseGood News For People Who Love Bad Newsoffers a unique blend of existential lyricism and innovative soundscapes. The album, viewed as an alternative classic in theearly 2000s, continuesto resonate with listeners years later. In addition to the hit songs “Float On” and “Ocean Breat...
Founded in Issaquah, Washington by singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy, Modest Mouse is one of the most influential indie rock bands in recent memory. While best known for their crossover hit “Float On,” the band has built a re...
Remembering Greg Lake: From British Invasion to Honorary Doctorate in 8 Songs Greg Lake, the pioneering prog rocker known for his work with King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passed away Tuesday at the age of 69. Lake’s career spanned a wide chunk of 20th century, and he was ...
Modest Mouse - Float On Piano Tutorial "Float On" was released in March 2004 as the lead single from Modest Mouse's fourth album "Good News for People Who Love Bad News". It became their greatest hit and topped Billboard's "Modern Rock Tracks" chart! Share: Facebook Twitter ...
Wrapping a wordy, darkly whimsical title around a bunch of songs many will find catchy and none will find pretty, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank takes after Modest Mouse's other four albums, even with guitarist Johnny Marr added to the equation. Like everything the band has release...
On their seventh album,The Golden Casket, Modest Mouse sounds primed for the summer festival season. The band’s music, once defined by its rambling, existential guitar rock, now aims for bombastic anthems tailor-made for arenas. While these songs’ edges aren’t quite as sharp and the hi...
Modest Mouse, “The Golden Casket” (Epic) It seems like it was just yesterday when Modest Mouse was a cult favorite indie band from the Pacific Northwest. But its last two major-label releases (“Strangers to Ourselves” and “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank”...
Modest Mouse was mentioned by name in the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of MGM v. Grokster. Justice David Souter wrote that on the Grokster P2P network, "Users seeking Top 40 songs, for example, or the latest release by Modest Mouse, are certain to be far more numerous...
Billboard.com has learned Modest Mouse, which now features former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, will play some West Coast U.S. dates in March and then hit the road for a world tour upon release of the album. Here is the track list for “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank”: ...
We hit it off and wrote three great songs straight away, something clicked, it felt right from the off. “I have a new Healers album pretty much done, but we’ve been having such a good time playing these new Modest Mouse songs. When people hear the record they’ll see why, we’re...