Modest Mouse

Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend: Merle Haggard, Modest Mouse, and More

Of all the things Merle Haggard and Sigur Rós have in common, this is perhaps the most important: They're both playing in Arizona on Friday. But that doesn't guarantee they'll end up in today's Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend. Of course, if you're at Country Thunder this weekend, ... More >>

Modest Mouse @ Crescent Ballroom

Modest Mouse is Coming to Phoenix

It's been a hot minute since Portland-based indie rock stalwarts Modest Mouse put a record out (the band's latest EP, No One's First and You're Next came out in freaking 2009). Songwriter Isaac Brock insists new material is coming (but you know, he named his record label Glacial Pace), but for now i ... More >>

Ricky Brindley, What Are You Listening To?

Ricky Brindley Brindley performs with sketch comedy troupe Bully Mammoth tonight at the Tempe Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. For more information, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? The station that plays my iPod or 91.5-FM (NPR ... More >>

Coachella 2013 Official Lineup is Posted

The wait, as they say, is finally over. You can cease all the speculation of who the hell is officially playing this year's Coachella as Goldenvoice unveiled the lineup in grand fashion. See also: -Who Is Really Playing Coachella This Year? -The Rolling Stones Aren't Playing Coachella, but Some ... More >>

Grouplove @ Crescent Ballroom

Field Tripp @ Long Wong's at the Firehouse

Lady La, What Are You Listening To?

Lady La Lady La is the morning show host for 101.5 JAMZ FM Monday-Friday from 6-10 a.m. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? KOOL 94.5 FM. What's the first album you bought? Timbaland & Magoo. What's the first concert you saw? E ... More >>

It's Easter: Here Are Five Musicians Whose Careers We Would Resurrect

Easter Weekend is upon us my friends. Yes, the charming time of year when we hide plastic eggs filled with jelly beans and chocolate underneath rocks and behind trees. When children will spend hours devouring choco-bunnies and woofing down Starbursts while you get sauced on lite beer in folding dec ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our April 5 Issue

This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. Who are the hottest women in metal? Want to hear exclusive music from Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse? What local ban ... More >>

Queens of Country Soundtrack to Feature Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Wanda Jackson, and Classic Country

Lizzy Caplan as Jolene Gillis​Directors Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke (of Phoenix bands Less Pain Forever and Runaway Diamonds) are no strangers to "music movies." The pair's documentaries, Moog, The Heart Is a Drum Machine, and Blood Into Wine are all insightful looks at the various way ... More >>

10 Summer Songs

​It's now June, and the heat is on. Between the backyard barbeques and triple-degree temperatures, summer is here to stay.Pop music is littered with songs about summer, including "Summer Lovin'" "Summertime Blues", "Summer of '69", and how could we forget that "School's Out" for summer?Pull up a l ... More >>

PBS Website Hacked, Fake Tupac Story Posted

​One of the most awesome, hilarious, ridiculous hacking pranks has gone down. A group of hackers recently got into PBS' web system and posted an unusual story about deceased rapper Tupac Shakur, according to Yahoo News.The hacker group, which calls itself Lulzsec and the Lulz Boat, posted a fake s ... More >>

Keith Richards Reportedly Recording New Material

​Keith Richards is said to be recording new material at a studio in New York City, according to Spinner.There's no word yet on whether he's been working on material for the Rolling Stones, a solo project, or producer and drummer Steve Jordan's side project band, the Verbs.Rumors have been floating ... More >>

Radar Bros.

Your Guide to Navigating Blogger-Created Genre Names

​ "What the fuck is chillwave?????" Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast tweeted back in April, when MTVU blogger Lindsay Hood described her band as "chillwave," after dismissing genres like "lo-fi," "glo-fi" and "Gorillavsbearcore" in her blurb advancing the video for the band's single "When I'm Wi ... More >>

Polysics Q&A On Absolute Polysics, Kayo's Departure From the Band and Modest Mouse's Vulgarity

Fumi, Hiro, Kayo, and Yano of Polysics​Listening to Polysics is like doing a hit of acid in a vat of extra-sugar-coated Jujubes. Choose your album. Whether its 2008's We Ate the Machine, this year's Absolute Polysics, or any of the older albums in their catalog, the candy-sweet, frenetic energy th ... More >>

What's Spinning: The Blaze 1330 AM

<​The Blaze is, according to our Best of Phoenix issue, the station of choice for those jonesing to hear what's happening in local music. Here's the chart documenting what ASU's Original Alternative played over the past week.1. Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band2. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug3. Grand Ar ... More >>

Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse Coming To Marquee on Feb. 25

Did you hear that?! Modest Mouse is coming to Tempe on February 25. Like, less than a month from now. And tickets go on sale tomorrow. The Issaquah, Washington six-piece sold out the 5,000-seat Mesa Amphitheatre in May 2007, so these tickets for a room half that size will go fast. There's simply n ... More >>

The Academy Is . . ., Hello Monday, & We the Kings

fU, mtvU

Singer Josh Grier puts his spin on Tapes 'N Tapes' recent reviews

Emperors of Japan

Your Freak Majesty
(Dark Black Records)

Modest Mouse

We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
(Sony)

Dilated Pupils

Producing the future

When Worlds Collide

A Change of Pace

Prepare the Masses
(Immortal Records)

Wolf Parade

Apologies to the Queen Mary
(Sub Pop)

Panic! at Andersons

The madness is back -- with prizes inside

Pinback

Blood Brothers

Crimes
(V2)

Mixed Up

"I'm retiring from the humiliating art of wooing girls with music."

Mouse Trap

Modest Mouse: On the Mellow Tip

What's Selling

What's Selling

What's Selling

A list of the top sellers

Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Funeral for a Friend (Ropeadope)

A Modest Success

Ugly Casanova may fail as a hoax. But as an offering from Modest Mouse's enigmatic front man, it works just fine.

Ugly Casanova

Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop)

Unlikely Hero

Seattle indie trio makes glorious guitar rock, but it can't escape comparisons to another stellar northwestern band

Fruit Bats

Echolocation (Perishable)

Mouse on the Moon

Modest Mouse, the band that would be indie rock's king, navigates a major-label existence

Modest Mouse

The Moon and Antarctica
(Epic Records)

Hero Worship

Seattle's 764-HERO expands its lineup, abandoning the ranks of the Northwest's great indie duos

Mouse That Roared

The members of Modest Mouse make brilliant music, but they'd rather not talk about it

Dropout Rock

Illinois foursome Braid proves itself the happy exception to the college-town rule

Indie Outings

The highs and lows of another adventurous year in the world of indie rock

Promise Keepers

Recovering from a badly produced debut, the Promise Ring finally delivers the goods

Indie Rockers Do It Better