In March 2026, the band released their first single since 2021, titled “Look How Far…”. A month later, in April 2026, the band announced fall tour dates and their eighth studio album An Eraser and a Maze , which was released on June 5, 2026. A second single, “Picking Dragons’…
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In April 2024, Brock announced that he was planning on reuniting the band’s 2004 line-up which recorded Good News for People Who Love Bad News for a tour in celebration of the record, which resulted in former drummer Benjamin Weikel briefly returning to the band in 2024. The other band…
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In mid-2023, they opened several shows for Weezer during their Indie Rock Road Trip tour. The band co-headlined a North American tour with the Pixies in the Summer of 2024.
In July 2022 the band was mixing a nine-song companion EP to The Golden Casket , with Marr confirmed to appear on one of the tracks.
In an interview in 2022, celebrating 15 years of We Were Dead before The Ship Even Sank , Isaac Brock and Johnny Marr revealed that they were writing songs together again, the first of which is called “Rivers of Rivers”. The writing took place in a “pen pal” kind of…
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In the midst of a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Lonesome Crowded West , drummer and founding member Jeremiah Green took an unannounced leave of absence. Days after his Stage IV cancer diagnosis was revealed to the public, Green died on December 31, 2022.
Modest Mouse released their seventh studio album, The Golden Casket , on June 25, 2021. The album’s first single, “We Are Between”, was released on May 5, followed by its second single, “Leave a Light On”, released on May 24. Writing for the Wall Street Journal , music critic Mark…
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Throughout 2019, the band released three standalone singles; “Poison the Well” on March 29, “I’m Still Here” on April 18, and “Ice Cream Party” on November 15.
Eight years after the release of We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank , Modest Mouse released Strangers to Ourselves on March 17, 2015. On December 15, 2014, they released the lead single “Lampshades on Fire” which debuted on Twin Cities public radio station 89.3 The Current . On…
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In 2015, Brock described the follow-up album to Strangers to Ourselves as being like a part two to the latter album that they would try to release as soon as legally possible. The follow-up album has also been said to feature at least one song with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic…
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