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Listen To All 32 Tracks From This Week's Print Feature "2011: The Songs I Heard...On KEXP"

sargenthouse.tumblr.comTreats!​While wrapping your morning's seafood catch, you may have noticed that one of the pages from this week's print edition featured a list of a ton of songs I heard over KEXP's airwaves this year. You may have even marveled at the exquisite descriptions that accompan ... More >>

After Fame & Fortune, There's Always DIY

​ Early this month, the absurdly talented comedian Louis C.K. made a leap into DIY-land and made a healthy wad of cash. The much-publicized move consisted of C.K. self-producing his latest comedy special and selling it for $5 directly to fans through his website. Apparently, the whole effort ... More >>

If You're a Modest Mouse Fan, Collect Vinyl, and Have a Couple Hundred Dollars on Hand, Go to Easy Street Records in West Seattle

A nice way to blow part of your paycheck: Easy Street Records' blog this morning informs us that they have in stock a copy of Modest Mouse's double LP The Lonesome Crowded West, released on Up Records in 1997, back when Calvin Johnson, not Big Boi, was producing the band's music. This rarity will ... More >>

Google is a Guitar Today, and You Can Play It

It looks like this: ​ And it sounds like its settings are tuned to "Modest Mouse"--I think I just re-recorded "Cowboy Dan" accidentally while trying to search for Doctor Who slashfic. (Update: It's actually in tribute to guitar innovator Les Paul, duh, who was born on this day in 1915.)

A Brief Critical Word About Those New Modest Mouse Songs

At Sasquatch! Festival this weekend, veteran NW indie howlers and recent Big Boi collaborators Modest Mouse debuted a couple new songs, soundboard recordings of which are rapidly making the blog rounds right now. Typically, what's not making the rounds along with the Youtube embeds is any sort of ... More >>

In Honor of Modest Mouse Working With Big Boi, 7 Other Unlikely Indie/Hip Hop Mash-Ups

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Grand Archives

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The Hood Internet

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Speaking of Sub Pop, the Label Has Signed Mister Heavenly, Featuring Members of Modest Mouse, Islands, and Man Man

​The new band features Nicholas Thorburn aka Nick Diamonds of the band Islands and Unicorns, Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse, and Man Man's Honus Honus. Sub Pop says the band's full-length debut is expected next year (no word yet on a key chain). If you're really hungry for a taste you can catc ... More >>

Modest Mouse's Sad Sappy Sucker and The Fruit That Ate Itself to be Re-issued by Glacial Pace Nov. 9

​Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock is using the power of his own record label to re-issue two of his band's old EPs. On Nov. 9, Glacial Pace Recordings will re-issue 1997's The Fruit That Ate Itself and 2001's Sad Sappy Sucker on vinyl and CD. Both albums were produced by Calvin Johnson and or ... More >>

Suicide Squeeze to Release Limited Edition Vinyl From The Coathangers with Dan Deacon, JEFF the Brotherhood, Iron & Wine, and More

​The local label Suicide Squeeze started releasing 7-inch singles fourteen years ago, putting out records for such Northwest luminaries as Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse, Pedro the Lion, and the Melvins, as well as out-of-area acts like HEALTH, Of Montreal, and School of Seven Bells. Now they're ... More >>

Modest Mouse to Reissue Their Best Album On Vinyl For Record Store Day

​Modest Mouse's 2000 record, The Moon & Antarctica, is still the best thing they've ever released. It's strange, gritty, and provoking in ways that much of their more recent music just isn't. In honor of the record's 10th anniversary, Epic/Legacy Records will re-release Moon on vinyl, with the ... More >>

Isaac Brock Will Be "Defriending Cancer" With James Mercer and Neil Hamburger at The Moore Next Month

Renee McMahonIsaac Brock will participate in the "Defriending Cancer" benefit on Feb. 11 at The Moore. Tickets are available for between $28 and $48.​It's a uncommon scene to see Isaac Brock shed his Modest Mouse bandmates. To see him do it on the same bill as The Shins' James Mercer is even r ... More >>

Remembering Monday at Bumbershoot: Black Eyed Peas, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand

Justin Dylan RenneyWatch a slideshow of Monday at Bumbershoot, featuring Black Eyed Peas, Modest Mouse, and others. For all our festival coverage, visit Bumbershoot.SeattleWeekly.com.​-- Say Hi Adds Bass Player, Banter to the Band -- The Lonely Forest Draws a Screaming, Pogo-ing Crowd -- The ... More >>

Bumbershoot Review: Is Metric's Emily Haines the Most Entertaining Frontwoman Ever?

Justin Dylan RenneyMetric, earlier in the day at KEXP's Bumbershoot Music Lounge. For all our festival coverage, visit Bumbershoot.SeattleWeekly.com.​Who: Metric When: 9:30 p.m. Where: Broad Street Stage Like pretty much everyone else in the world who's ever seen a Yeah Yeah Yeahs show, I am ... More >>

Bumbershoot: Monday’s Recommended Shows

Justin Dylan RenneyMetric, earlier in the day at KEXP's Bumbershoot Music Lounge. For all our festival coverage, visit Bumbershoot.SeattleWeekly.com.​Who: Metric When: 9:30 p.m. Where: Broad Street Stage Like pretty much everyone else in the world who's ever seen a Yeah Yeah Yeahs show, I am ... More >>

Dutchess and the Duke to Tour With Modest Mouse

​ It's gonna be a good year for local band the Dutchess and the Duke; I can just feel it. The new record is going to blow people away when it drops on October 6, and they are now poised to reach a much broader audience, thanks to a touring run with Modest Mouse (dates are below). Tonight is a ... More >>

SXSW: Saturday, Installment 2

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Reviewing the Reviews: Tapes 'n Tapes

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Saturday's Sasquatch! Fans of the Day

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Grand Hallway Snag Sasquatch Slot

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Sasquatch! According to Ear Candy: Cave Singers, Cops ... R.E.M.?

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

R.E.M., Modest Mouse Coming (Close) to Town

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

"Review:" Meatface at Deck the Hall Ball

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Download Festival: Or How I Didn't Learn to Stop Hating Incubus But Still Love the Thermals

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Downloads From Download 2007: Thermals, Arthur & Yu, Back Door Slam

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Wrecking-Ball Dodger Jeff Ofelt Has Employed Half the City's Rock Stars

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Modest Mouse Photos

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Last Night: Modest Mouse at the Paramount

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Not So Modest Sales

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Caught In A Trap

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Loose Lips Sink Ships

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Modest Mouse

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

The Old Mouse and the Sea

Weeell, I never made it to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas fest (where I was considering spending most of my day, originally, but as I've discovered with SXSW, plans change.) Ma'chell convinced me to go see Langhorne Slim, whose recorded sound simply does not do his awesome live show justice. He w ... More >>

Behind the Scene

Amanda Graham of Luckyhorse Industries

New Modest Mouse Song

Amanda Graham of Luckyhorse Industries

Blasphemy

Amanda Graham of Luckyhorse Industries

Sasquatch at the Gorge

Amanda Graham of Luckyhorse Industries

Ticktock, Ticktock

Running down the clock toward the end times with Modest Mouse.

Countdown

Running down the clock toward the end times with Modest Mouse.

Countdown

Running down the clock toward the end times with Modest Mouse.

Countdown

Top-selling records at local independent record stores

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Top-selling Northwest albums at local independent record stores

My time

Top-selling Northwest albums at local independent record stores

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TOP ROCK RECORDS SALES

Must-see B-V

Five Bumbershoot acts that you absolutely, positively can't miss.

New local releases

Five Bumbershoot acts that you absolutely, positively can't miss.

Mouse in the house

If you were Isaac Brock, you'd be home by now.

Beyond Sup Pop

3 local labels on the verge, and two dozen more that matter