In the music scene of 2015, Modest Mouse is indeed a stranger. The indie rock band’s latest album is its first in eight long years. Where has the group been and what has taken so long? Touring is part ...

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson surveys a few anticipated highlights of the coming year in music, including Screaming Females and The Lone Bellow. From Marling To Modest Mouse, A Look At 2015's New Music ...

Modest Mouse perfected an underground sound that melted angsty emo and light-hearted folk with experimental rock for something entirely their own. When the outfit – originally made up of frontman ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Seattle had a problem. Many of its music stars had died. Record executives had mined the region of all its musical acts and there was veritable carnage left behind ...