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Modest Mouse — No One's First, And You're Next

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) August 17, 2009 2:01 pm
No One's First, And You're Next is a collection of unreleased material from Modest Mouse's last two studio records, 2004's Good News For People Who Love Bad News and 2007's We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank and as cast-offs they're quite good, but as a cohesive set of songs, they crumble like uncured concrete. Lead-off single "Satelite...
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Isaac Brock's BSS Cameo

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By John Papamarko (CHARTattack) November 28, 2008 5:29 pm
It's a bit strange to write a review of a show by a band who haven't released a proper album since 2005. It's even more strange for that group to sell out two nights at the cavernous Sound Academy, but Broken Social Scene aren't your average band. With almost 20 members rotating in and out based on availability, they operate more like an extended...
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Broken Social Scene (photo by Joe Fuda)

R.E.M. Have Setlist Issues

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) June 9, 2008 2:30 pm
I haven't seen R.E.M. since they played a free show in downtown Toronto seven years ago. That show was a promotion for their second post-Bill Berry album, Reveal, also known as the first confirmation that Up's myriad weaknesses were no fluke. But so powerful was the goodwill at the free concert that it was practically impossible to notice how...
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Sasquatch 2008 Day One

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By Quinn Omori (CHARTattack) May 28, 2008 2:00 pm
For the first time in it's seven-year history, the Sasquatch Music Festival stretched over a full three days. Memorial Day might not sound like an appropriate excuse to party, but with nearly 100 artists and comedians sharing three stages, our American neighbours and hosts did a fine job of demonstrating how to properly celebrate a long weekend...
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Modest Mouse's Bass Troubles Hinder Set

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) April 25, 2007 3:00 pm
For all the griping Modest Mouse's longtime fans (see: me) might do about their descent into commercial pop, you have to give the band credit for keeping their live set lists as diverse as their records. Unfortunately, that was about the only thing that went right for the rockers Tuesday night as they packed the grandiose Hummingbird. Frontman...
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Modest Mouse — We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 20, 2007 7:57 pm
Modest Mouse, even at their least artistic, are still more entertaining than 90 per cent of the acts who rule the charts. We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank takes them even further into the pop world than Good News For People Who Love Bad News did. So if you gave up on Modest Mouse when you couldn't reconcile "Ocean Breathes Salty"...
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Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read

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By Shaun Hatton (CHARTattack) November 16, 2006 10:47 am
This unauthorized biography of Modest Mouse centres more on frontman Isaac Brock than on the rest of the band. Piecing together tons of articles about the indie-to-international group, Goldsher does a great job at maintaining a seamless narrative, with the exception of interlude chapters about the writing process where he often comes across as...
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Sun Kil Moon — Tiny Cities

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) November 1, 2005 2:56 pm
Ever wondered what Modest Mouse would sound like if they were an alt.country group and Isaac Brock could sing? If so, your curiosity will be highly satisfied by Sun Kil Moon's Tiny Cities, an 11-track LP entirely composed of MM covers. Singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek takes some of Brock's best known tunes and dramatically reworks them into the alt....
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Modest Mouse — Good News For People Who Love Bad News

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) April 6, 2004 10:17 am
Modest Mouse fans have been waiting patiently. While the band released an EP and a reissue of early recordings in 2001 and singer Isaac Brock — the man largely responsible for the Mouse’s distinctive sound — put out a solo album as Ugly Casanova last year, Good News is the first proper Modest Mouse album since 2000’s The Moon And Antarctica. Four...
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Modest Mouse — The Moon And Antartica

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 13, 2000 2:51 pm
Like fellow former Up Records labelmates, Built To Spill (who signed to Warner and have since released three albums), the move of Issaquah, WA's Modest Mouse to Epic has not curbed the trio's quirky, disjointed sound that densely inhabited earlier records like The Lonesome Crowd West. Like BTS, Modest Mouse combine the No Wave staccato vocal...
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WATCH: St. Vincent and Isaac Brock guest star on Portlandia

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) February 4, 2012 5:24 pm
Last night, hipster send-up comedy show Portlandia welcomed Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock and St. Vincent's Annie Clark to its ever-growing list of awesome guest stars.When Eddie Vedder first appeared on the show, it was hard to believe it could get much better. But last night, Clark performed as a model for Portland Police Department's new...
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WATCH: Mister Heavenly "Bronx Sniper" official music video

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By Kate Killet (CHARTattack) November 5, 2011 1:08 pm
Indie supergroup Mister Heavenly is comprised of Honus Honus (of experimental rock outfit Man Man), Nicholas Thorburn (of defunct Canadian indie-pop groups Islands and The Unicorns), Joe Plummer (of Modest Mouse and The Shins), and sometimes actor/bassist Michael Cera too. The music video for their reckless rock song  "Bronx Sniper"...
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Song Of The Day: Mister Heavenly's "Bronx Sniper"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 22, 2011 2:51 pm
In case you forgot, Mister Heavenly is the collaboration between Islands' Nick Thorburn, Man Man's Honus Honus and Modest Mouse's Joe Plummer (no, not Joe The Plumber). "Bronx Sniper" is the opening track to their Out Of Love debut album, which comes out Aug. 16. It definitely sounds like a combination of all three bands, though the beat and weird...
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I Read The News Today... For June 27, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 27, 2011 3:59 pm
Toronto alt.country band Cuff The Duke will return with a new album dubbed Morning Comes, which will come out through Paper Bag Records on Oct. 4. The first single is "Count On Me," and the LP reportedly includes an eight-minute tune dubbed "Bound To Your Advice." And it's the first part of a two-part album. Pixies frontman Black Francis will...
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I Read The News Today... For May 31, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 31, 2011 2:33 pm
Gagetown, N.B. will host a three-day music festival dubbed Folly Fest from June 30 to July 2. Hey Ocean!, Old Man Luedecke, Paper Lions, The Olympic Symphonium, The Mark Inside and That 1 Guy are among those who'll play. English singer/songwriter Frank Turner's just announced a gigantic North American tour in support of his upcoming England Keep...
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I Read The News Today... For April 25, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 25, 2011 4:21 pm
Who's on The Lonely Island's new album? Why, only Akon, Beck, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Nicki Minaj, John Waters, Santigold and... Michael frickin' Bolton. —Los Angeles Times Our Lady Peace are working on their next album and have been uploading short studio videos to YouTube. Like this one: Former Guns N' Roses member Duff...
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Together At Last: Man Man + Islands + Modest Mouse = Mister Heavenly

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 30, 2010 1:04 pm
Some of you might remember that Man Man frontman Honus Honus and Islands' Nick Thorburn were working on some kind of collaborative project late last year. It turns out Modest Mouse drummer Joe Plummer (no, not this guy) got in on this, too. The band are called Mister Heavenly, and they've just signed to Sub Pop. Their as-yet-untitled debut album...
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Mister Heavenly (Photo by Johnny Le)

I Read The News Today... For Oct. 21, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 21, 2010 1:35 pm
Looks like 102.1 The Edge and Dean Blundell are in some trouble again. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said Wednesday that comments Blundell made suggesting Justin Bieber was "gay" and that his fans were "likely 12 years old" violated part of the council's "equitable portrayal code" because they had "inappropriately sexualized children."...
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I Read The News Today... For June 4, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 4, 2010 1:40 pm
Two Hours Traffic's Territory was released in Australia today (June 4), and the band will tour Australia in support of it next week. It's coming out south of the 49th parallel on Sept. 7. Two Hours Traffic Apparatjik, the band that features members of Coldplay, A-Ha and Mew, have made available their free 4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead...
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Modest Mouse — "The Whale Song"

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By CHARTattack Staff October 9, 2009 12:30 pm
Here's Modest Mouse's effects-filled video for No One's First, And You're Next's "The Whale Song." It was directed by Nando Costa. Modest Mouse have become known for their trippy, weird and awesome videos over the last few years. You can check out one of those, the animated, Heath Ledger-directed video for "King Rat," in our...
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