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Modest Mouse video directed by Heath Ledger debuts

Heath Ledger's latest directorial work has been released.

Heath Ledger-directed music video set for release

A Modest Mouse music video directed by the late Heath Ledger is set for release this year.

Modest Mouse Returns Post-Breakthrough

Given the unlikely, phenomenal success of Modest Mouse's 2004 disc "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," the story line on their new album seemed sure to focus on the long-indie band's response to their sudden popularity.

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Modest Mouse's "Whale Song" Gets cool Stop Motion Video
Source: vimeo.com

The indie rock band Modest Mouse is getting the royal treatment from Bent Image Lab's new director/partner Nando Costa. Just completed, the band's new music video is a dark and expressive piece of film-making.

Rock Arithmetic: Hot Hot Heat = The Cure + The Killers and a couple other hot equations

This story first ran in the June issue of Chill Magazine. Rock Arithmetic - -Where Easy Math Helps You Make Snappy Sense of Bands You Might Dig

"Gotta Go To Work, Gotta Get a Job" : Modest Mouse and Globalization

I will be writing about Modest Mouse's song track "Custom Concern." I believe the song is about how people shut themselves out these days, and how globalization has made us become isolated to the point where interaction is limited, where doing things has become this routine witho …

Coalition of indie bands promises music that is "less annoying"

Several indie bands gathered during the week to discuss the formation and policies of a coalition of musicians (which has not yet been named) intending to make music better.

The bottom half of the Top Ten albums of 2007

One of the most basic human instincts, aside from seeking warmth and food, is making lists. We love lists.

Back together again: Five bands we can't live without

Not a lot of people know this, but when Bob Dylan infamously declared "I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really," he wasn't referencing the changing sound of music as it entered the digital age, like is widely believed.

Why Portland Is America's Indie Rock Mecca
Source: Slate

I never paid much attention to the band-rehearsal squawk that used to waft through the open windows of my house in the early evenings.

Religion's Fundamental Threat to Humanity

Ocean Breathes Salty, Modest Mouse: Your body may be gone, I'm gonna carry you in. In my head, in my heart, in my soul. And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again. Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Don't think so. ...

Brock, horror! Modest Mouse frontman gets one in the eye
Source: drownedinsound.com

Nope – this is isn't Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock's attempt at giving a literal spin to the nautical themes of his band's latest LP, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Instead, it's what happens when someone lobs a bottle at his head.

Checkout The New Modest Mouse Video - "Dashboard"
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Checkout The New Modest Mouse Video - "Dashboard"

Apple Modest Mouse video contest
Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

This is a pretty nifty video competition from Apple and the band "Modest Mouse". The later wants a video for their new song "Missed the Boat," so they have placed online 12 videos of the band performing the song in front of a green screen with different angles and camera shots.

Lollapalooza 2007 : August 3-5, 2007 : Chicago : Grant Park : Lineup announced
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Lollapalooza has announced the lineup for this year's festival. Some highlights: Pearl Jam Iggy and the Stooges Modest Mouse My Morning Jacket Snow Patrol The Roots Patti Smith Regina Spektor Pete Yorn Paolo Nutini Amy Winehouse Son Volt

What do you get when you cross ABC's Lost with Modest Mouse?
Source: YouTube

An interesting YouTube mashup, if I do say so myself.

This Month in Music: March 2007

At the end of 2006, reflecting on the year in music, I was hard pressed to come up with a list of ten records I found to be outstanding. Since that time I've come across so many fantastic records from 2006 that I have to wonder where the hell I was for most of last year.

Yet Another Look at the New Modest Mouse Album. Yes, It's Great.

When one of indie rock's favorite names comes out with a new album bolstered by the addition of ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and including several guest vocals by Shins frontman James Mercer it's expected that there will be a lot of overblown hype prior to the record's r …

New Music Buffet: Ours, Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, Bright Eyes

This spring will be loaded with incredible releases. Here I highlight four of them:

Modest Mouse rolls up its sleeves on 'We Were Dead'

About three and half minutes into "Parting of the Sensory," the fifth track off Modest Mouse's soon-to-be released We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, slow, sparse, dark instrumentation gives way to an explosive banjo and fiddle-filled drunken cowboy freakout over which lead  …

Latest Modest Mouse, Indie Goodness for All

"We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" is the fifth full length from underground favorites Modest Mouse, and the band's second release on the major label Epic.

Album Review/Preview: Modest Mouse "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"

etween Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arcade Fire's upcoming album and this, it's been a great first quarter for Indie Rock. Bottom line is this album is solid too.

Modest Mouse - Satin in a coffin
Source: YouTube

Are you dead or are you sleeping?

Modest Mouse Reveal Album Details
Source: spin.com

In addition to featuring ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, the album will showcase Shins frontman James Mercer on three tracks

Ten Songs You Must Hear Before You Die

10. Built to Spill-"Car": Perhaps one of the oddest indie-pop songs ever. Big fuzz guitars. Elf-like vocals. Pure joy and heartache. Haunting and boppable.

2007 Sounds Pretty Good to Me

The last 30 to 60 days has seen every major and minor publication in print and online, including Newsvine scrambling to put together "the best" music of 2006.

Live 105 NSSN - Not So Silent Night - The Killers, Modest Mouse, The Raconteurs, The Shins, Silversun Pickups

PODCASTS from San Francisco's own Live 105's "NOT SO SILENT NIGHT" Concert featuring The Killers, Modest Mouse, The Raconteurs, The Shins, and the winner of the local band contest - Silversun Pickups Click here to listen to Live 105's Madden interview The Killers at NSSN '06

Johnny Marr & David Cross - One: Bank of America Cover [Video]
Source: YouTube

On November 18th before Modest Mouse hit the stage at the Bowery Ballroom, Johnny Marr and David Cross came out and covered the Bank of America guys covering U2's One.

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