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Brand New and Modest Mouse will unite for a large show at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York on August 9. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow, April 30, at 10 a.m. EST. Check out the flyer below. The two bands will also be playing together in Cooperstown, New York, on May 24.

Modest Mouse and Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls are the second show announced for Brewery Ommegang's summer concert series. They'll be performing on Friday, May 23 in Cooperstown, NY. Brand New are supporting Modest Mouse the following day, but that has already sold out. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, March 14 at noon via Dan […]

Modest Mouse and Brand New are the first show announced for Brewery Ommegang's summer concert series on Saturday, May 24 in Cooperstown, NY. Both bands were previously announced for Boston Calling music festival taking place the same weekend. Tickets for Ommegang go on sale this Friday, March 7 at Dan Smalls Presents and are $45 for GA/$60 for […]

Boston Calling Music Festival will be back for a spring installment and although bands have not been officially announced, the fest’s Twitter released a picture with a record that revealed the spring 2014 lineup. Brand New, Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse, Jack Johnson, and Built To Spill will be playing at Boston Calling, along with […]

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic confirmed, in a recent interview with Spotify, that he recorded bass for one song set to appear on Modest Mouse's long-in-the-works new album. Novoselic described his contribution as a “pretty edgy, distorted bass riff,” and has apparently been jamming with the indie rockers since as far back as last summer. Modest Mouse […]

The Cribs In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull This review originally ran in AP 287. After getting a pretty substantial profile boost thanks to the addition of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr (who recorded and toured with the group for three years), U.K. indie-punk band the Cribs are back to being a trio for […]

Modest Mouse has announced a week of June tour dates, viewable below. 6/20 – Washington, D.C. @ 930 Club 6/21 – Washington, D.C. @ 930 Club 6/22 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE 6/23 – Atlantic City, N.J. @ Bader Airfield 6/24- Randall’s Island, N.Y. @ Randall’s Island Park 6/26 – Columbus, Ohio @ Lifestyle […]

More bands have been announced for Metallica's inuagural Orion Music & More festival, happening June 23-24 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Bands slated to perform include Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage The Elephant, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., Lucero, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, The Sword, A […]

Various Artists Live From Nowhere Near You: Volume Two   Compilations by nature have a strong odds & sods bent, and Live From Nowhere Near You is no exception. Extending across three discs, 65 tracks and almost four hours—and featuring recordings from more than 50 different artists—it’d hard for it to be otherwise. But it’s […]

Various Artists Rave On Buddy Holly It’s no small achievement that bespectacled ’50s rock icon Buddy Holly—who was tragically killed in a 1959 plane crash, aged 22—still inspires countless artists today. However, his impact runs much deeper than merely informing some retro, geek-chic fashion aesthetic or providing a kitschy, Happy Days-themed hook for a Weezer […]