Modest Mouse plots summer dates with and without R.E.M.
Modest Mouse [ tickets ] has lined up a late-spring/early summer docket that includes a number of headlining shows worked into and about a run of support dates for R.E.M. [ tickets ]The Pacific Northwestward alt-rockers testament recreate their first-class honours degree show with R.E.M. Whitethorn 23 in George Vancouver, British people Columbia, followed by an coming into court the following day (5/24) at St. George, WA's Sasquatch! music fete.Once the band's opening duties ar fulfilled in mid-June, the group will tackle a elongate of pure headlining shows through early July. Details are below.Modest Mouse continues to financial support its fifth studio localise, "We Were Dead Ahead the Ship Even Sank," which collide with stores last March. The record is the band's number one since recruiting former Smiths guitarist Greyback Marr. Upon its liberation, the freshly album entered The Hoarding 200 graph at the No. 1 side, making it the band's highest-debuting exploit to date."We Were Dead ..." follows 2004's "Good News for People WHO Erotic love Badly News," which earned the band its first platinum-album certification and spawned the tally song "Float On."A recent photograph posted at the band's website shows frontman Isaac Brock and other members of the band working on freshly songs, according to the photo's caption. In a recent epoch issue of Rolling Gem mag, Brock told an interviewer that his stream precedence is to release a Modest Computer mouse EP including songs left off of the band's previous deuce albums.
