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New Releases: Modest Mouse, R. Kelly, Joss Stone, C-Murder, El-P & More (MTV ...
Modest Mouse team up with the Shins' James Mercer on their new album. Also hitting stores this week: R. Kelly, Joss Stone, C-Murder and El-P.
Billboard CD reviews: Modest Mouse, Stephen Marley (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Modest Mouse is in top form on the follow-up to 2004's commercial breakthrough "Good News for People Who Like Bad News.
Modest Mouse (Seattle Weekly)
Modest Mouse are a wonderfully wonky band. I've always likened them to an untamed animal. But musically, they are more akin to a bag full of instruments; turn them upside down and shake them just a little, and the whole mess will crash to the floor.
Audio of the week, March 20 (Rocky Mountain News)
Wilco is cited as a daring experimental band, but this album puts Modest Mouse in a whole new league. Where Wilco's occasional stabs at sonic weirdness sometimes seem indulgent, Isaac Brock weaves intricate sounds with fascinating if oblique lyrics.
This week's reviews: Mouse, Joss, Rich, Elliott and more (USA Today)
The pace of significant releases is picking up. Here's what our critics reviewed this week: Modest Mouse is better when the band errs on the immodest side, Edna Gundersen feels. Joss Stone's emancipation isn't quite all it's been hyped up...
Concert Review: No modesty for Mouse on eve of release (Fargo Forum)
Its most recent albums may highlight Modest Mouse?s pop sense, but it?s not the band?s ear for the catchy that grabs you in concert.
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Pitchfork)
For all of the pandemonium over the indie rock gold-record mainstream-radio-play explosion, few of the bands who breached Clear Channel's glass ceiling were actually longtime members of the small-label fraternity.
Give the 'Mouse' a cookie (Michigan Daily)
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004) created quite a predicament for Modest Mouse. It fashioned two varied groups of listeners - one being the purists, pissed off with the departure of the band from relative indie rock obscurity, and the other: teen girls, shouting "Oh my God! Modest Mouse!" when they heard "Float On" on the radio.
Modest Mouse returns - humbled (The Argus Leader)
As they say, first impressions can last a lifetime. And if Modest Mouse's 2005 concert at the Ramkota Exhibit Hall was your first taste of the band's frontman, Isaac Brock, you still might be thinking the guy comes off kind of like a temperamental snot.
Enter to Win Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Blogcri...
BC Magazine is proud to team with Epic records and give a luck reader a chance to win We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank , the newest release from Modest Mouse , available March 20. The indie rock band formed in 1993 and has released seven previous full length albums. The most recent, Good News for People Who Love Bad News , contained the chart topping singles "Float On" (#1 on the ...