Longtime indie rock bands Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips teamed up to dazzle the Santa Barbara Bowl for their appropriately named, It’s Summertime 2025 tour. A picture perfect Friday night (Sept. 5 ...

Modest Mouse is going to have a huge 2026, they hope. That includes a new album and a bunch of new tour dates.

The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse will spend the end of their summer on the road together. The two bands will co-headline an upcoming North American tour with support from guest openers Friko and Dehd ...

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Modest Mouse were the perfect “right time, right place” band for the early Aughts indie-rock gold rush. They had legit Nineties alt-rock bona fides (Beat Happening’s Calvin Johnson co-produced Mouse’s ...

Countless indie darlings have made the jump from cred-laden buzz band to major label fixture. Just ask R.E.M., The Replacements, and Sonic Youth. A whole new generation of underground acts made the ...