Modest Mouse's "Whale Song" Gets cool Stop Motion VideoSource: 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.

This story first ran in the June issue of Chill Magazine.
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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 …

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.

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

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.

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.
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Brock, horror! Modest Mouse frontman gets one in the eyeSource: 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.
Apple Modest Mouse video contestSource: 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.

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.

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 …

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

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 …

"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.

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 Reveal Album DetailsSource: spin.com
In addition to featuring ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, the album will showcase Shins frontman James Mercer on three tracks

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.

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.

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
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