Modest Mouse Announces May Tour Dates

By China Reevers at 12:30 PM on March 23, 2011

Modest Mouse will return to the road this May with a three-show run leading to their appearance at the sold-out Sasquatch! Music Festival in George, Wash. on May 29....  read more

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Download Two Mister Heavenly Songs

By Paste Staff at 12:41 PM on January 14, 2011

Download two Mister Heavenly songs via the widget below. The Man Man/Islands/Modest Mouse supergroup will have an album out via Sub Pop this year....  read more

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Islands, Man Man, Modest Mouse Supergroup Tours, Readies Album

By Beca Grimm at 12:00 PM on December 1, 2010

Back in January, Islands’ Nick Diamonds and Man Man’s Honus Honus united under their self-created genre doom-wop. Only now do the two announce the addition of Modest Mouse’s Joe Plummer and the birth of their powerful trio, Mister Heavenly....  read more

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Modest Mouse to Reissue Album, EP

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 1:09 PM on October 20, 2010

On Nov. 9, Modest Mouse will reissue their The Fruit That Ate Itself EP as well as their 2001 album Sad Sappy Sucker....  read more

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A Playlist for Alaska's 98th Birthday

By Beca Grimm at 3:41 PM on August 24, 2010

All right, so maybe 98 years ago today Alaska merely became a U.S. territory. (It wasn’t until almost 50 years later that President Eisenhower actually declared AK the 49th state.) But why not go ahead and celebrate the inclusion of this frosty state beneath the stars and stripes?...  read more

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The 23 Greatest Sci-Fi Songs of All Time

By Josh Jackson at 7:00 AM on August 19, 2010

Good sci-fi stories can easily be found in movies, TV, books and video games, but what about music? The following 23 songs tell tales of woe, wonder and alien love. And there will be robots.  read more

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Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 Photos Ft. Modest Mouse, Raekwon, Pavement, Best Coast, Many More

By Paste Staff at 4:37 PM on July 19, 2010

Photos by Gavin Paul...  read more

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Modest Mouse Announces U.S., UK Tour

By Kristen Callihan at 2:00 PM on April 15, 2010

Since the release of last year’s No One’s First and You’re Next EP, it’s been pretty quiet on the Modest Mouse front. But the band is getting back into the swing of things, with a vinyl reissue of 2000’s The Moon and Antarctica for Record Store Day and a recently-announced summer tour....  read more

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Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 Finalizes Lineup

By Kristen Callihan at 2:26 PM on April 12, 2010

We knew that Modest Mouse, Pavement and LCD Soundsystem had signed on to play this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, but late last week, the Pitchforkers announced the rest of the three-day fest’s lineup. Added were Broken Social Scene, Liars, Panda Bear, Wolf Parade, Big Boi, Beach House, Major Lazer and many more....  read more

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Eugene Mirman, Isaac Brock, James Mercer, Todd Barry to Play Cancer Benefit in Seattle

By Rachel Bailey at 2:00 PM on February 9, 2010

Getting defriended sucks. As we rack up friends on Facebook, Twitter and all the other myriad social media outlets cropping up, defriending is reserved for the worst of the worst—the scourge of the earth. Really, who could deserve such a fate more than cancer?...  read more

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