Formerly signed to Matador and fronted by eccentric singer Issac Brock, Modest Mouse finally broke into the American mainstream in spring 2004 with the hit album Good News For People Who Love Bad News, and massive airplay single (plus featuring on a car advert can't have damaged it too much) 'Float On'.

Albums to date:

This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
The Fruit That Ate Itself(1997)
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
Sad Sappy Sucker (2001)
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)

Photograph by Autumn de Wilde from the band's MySpace page, here.

Releases

• We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank - album, out 02/04/2007 on Columbia Records. 1 review (read/post)
• Dashboard - single, out 26/03/2007 on Columbia Records. (post review)
• Good News For People Who Love Bad News - album, out 12/07/2004 on Epic Records. (post review)
• Float On - single, out 05/07/2004 on Epic Records. (post review)

Past events

• Mon 03 Sep at London Kentish Town Forum. 1 review (read/post)
• Connect Music Festival - Saturday, Sat 01 Sep at Inveraray Inverary Castle. (post review)
• Wed 20 Jun at Paris L' Elysée Montmartre. (post review)
• Wed 23 May at London Royal Albert Hall. (post review)
• Tue 21 Nov at London Koko. (post review)
• Thu 28 Jun at London Highbury Garage. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 23/10/2007: WIN! Pat Graham's Silent Pictures photography book
• 24/08/2007: Modest Mouse announce two new dates
• 06/07/2007: Primavera confirms first few acts: Slint, Isis and more, plus ATP stage!
• 06/07/2007: Reading/Leeds adds: Kaisers, Distillers, Bad Things, Shins, Oliveri...
• 05/06/2007: Hove Festival 2007: final line-up confirmed
• 14/05/2007: ATP Versus The Fans: running order announced
• 17/04/2007: Modest Mouse: new single, tour dates
• 28/02/2007: The Weekly DiScussion: The Charts, or why we're obsessed with numbers
• 20/02/2007: Primavera: bill almost full!
• 02/02/2007: DiS in digest: our pick of the week's news

Features

• 23/12/2007: The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007
• 06/12/2007: DiS's albums of 2007: 10-6
• 26/11/2007: DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
• 16/08/2007: SummerSonic 2007: the DiS review
• 18/07/2007: Hove Festival 2007: the DiS review
• 18/07/2007: Primavera Sound 2007: the DiS Review
• 18/07/2007: ATP Versus The Fans: DiS Versus The Fans!
• 02/05/2007: A Month In Records: April 2007
• 12/07/2004: Only the squeak survive

Links

• Modest Mouse - official site
• Modest Mouse on MySpace

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