Articles tagged "modest mouse"

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Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (video collection)

by Tyler Gould

[23.Nov.09] :. Twelve years ago this week: future platinum-selling Modest Mouse released their second full-length album, The Lonesome Crowded West, one of the best albums of the ‘90s. It was a...

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Modest Mouse - “Whale Song” (video)

by Tyler Gould

[8.Oct.09] :. “Whale Song” comes from the odds-and-ends collection, No One’s First and You’re Next and proves that Modest Mouse throws away songs most bands would sell their soul to...

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Modest Mouse - “Satellite Skin” (video)

by PopMatters Staff

[21.May.09] :. ...

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Modest Mouse

by William Carl Ferleman

[14.Dec.07] :. Yes, faithful friends, Isaac Brock is human, however much he strives to achieve the persona of a deft, but thoroughly imbibed, alien.

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Modest Mouse is modestly happy

by Brian McCollum [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. "It's not fair to a record to go in married to one idea," he says. "You've got to keep it a little loose in case things want to develop in a different direction."

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Modest Mouse—Part 3: We Still Have the Radio

by Ryan S. Henriquez

[23.May.07] :. In the final installment of PopMatters' immodest Mouse debate, Ryan S. Henriquez gets down to brass tacks, using a recent live show to examine the Good News and see if the ship's really sunk...

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Modest Mouse’s gritty style intact after commercial hit

by Shay Quillen [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[23.May.07] :. "It's the most family-like this whole band's felt since it was just a three-piece when we were younger," Brock says. "I think the whole band is a lot more comfortable right now."

 

Modest Mouse—Part 2: Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine

by Ryan S. Henriquez

[22.May.07] :. In section two of PopMatters' internal battle royale for critical supremacy, the gloves come off and the great debate begins... with a pox for foul-weather friends.

 

Modest Mouse—Part 1: I miss you when you’re around

by Brian Bartels

[21.May.07] :. In section one of a three-part series chronicling recent chart topper Modest Mouse's rise and the fallout from their newfound flirtation with fame and fortune, PopMatters reexamines a pre-breakthrough concert bummer.

 

Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

by Michael Franco

[29.Mar.07] :. Having attained mainstream success -- and arguably the world's most coveted guitarist -- Modest Mouse are back. Surprisingly, they sound like neither event ever happened.

 

Modest Mouse

by Brian Bartels

[22.Dec.06] :. What happens when people who love bad news get it?

 

Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News

by Emily Sogn

[23.Apr.04] :. Modest Mouse are one of those rare bands whose fragile but spirited music constantly seems to teeter precariously between brilliance and catastrophe. Since their inception in 1993 the trio has...

 

Modest Mouse: Sad Sappy Sucker

by Jeremy Hart

[24.Apr.01] :. Taken on its own merits, Sad Sappy Sucker is pretty good, but the out-and-out strangeness of it all and the fact that it doesn’t hold together as a real album may throw off the uninitiated.

 

Modest Mouse: The Moon and Antarctica

by Andrew Johnson

[13.Jun.00] :. The scenario here is a familiar one. Guitar, bass, drums trio Modest Mouse, heroes of the indie scene and its self-appointed rock intelligentsia have signed with a major and everyone is mighty concerned that the band will turn sell-out and leave the kids sad and alone.