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 ...

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When are The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse touring? The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse will head out for a 20-date tour this summer that begins on August 1, 2025 in Atlanta and ends Sep. 11, 2025 in ...

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 ...

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

Whenever championed indie rock outfit Modest Mouse releases a new record and heads out on the road, the same question inevitably comes up in one form or another: “How’s Isaac Brock doing?” The witty, ...

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 ...

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 When the outfit – originally made up of frontman ...

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 ...