The inaugural Orion Music + More festival will be held on June 23 & 24 at Bader Field, a Municipal Airport just outside Atlantic City, NJ.

Metallica will be headlining both nights of the festival, during which they will be performing their Black album in its entirety on one of the nights.

Metallica will also be curating the event, having selected 22+ of their favourite artists to join them, Modest Mouse being one of the confirmed acts so far. Other bands announced include the Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Fucked Up and Best Coast.

Little info otherwise is known as of now. We're not sure yet if Modest Mouse will be performing on both nights, and if not, then which night they will be performing on.

Presale tickets for Met Club fan club members go on sale Wednesday (February 8) at 10:00 am ET until Friday (February 10) at 10:00 pm ET. General admission tickets for the two-day festival will be priced at $125 and Ultra Passes will be priced at $225. Public tickets go on sale Saturday (February 11) at 10:00 am ET on the festival's official site. Early bird tickets will be priced at $150 and advance tickets will be priced at $175. VIP passes and travel packages will be announced Saturday.

We will update as we hear more.

Source: Orion Music + More | June 23 & 24 | Atlantic City, NJ

As previously mentioned, Isaac Brock will be staring in this coming Friday's (Feb 3) episode of Portlandia entitled "Cops Redesign". In the episode, Isaac will portray an excited donor that donates his old music LPs to an elite preschool, but protective parents Brendan and Michelle question his sonic sensibilities.

The episode will also feature guest appearances by Kyle MacLachlan, Annie Clark and Sean Hayes.

Portlandia airs at 10pm on IFC.

Source: Portlandia - Cops Redesign – IFC

We're a little behind on this live date that was quietly added to Modest Mouse's website about a week ago.

The band will be heading to Mexico in March to perform at Festival 72810. A festival being held in the shadows of the Great Pyramid of Cholula in San Andrés Cholula on March 10.

They will be joined by acts like Public Enemy, Bauhaus's Peter Murphy, Blonde Redhead and more. Tickets are already on sale through the festival's website.

Source: Modest Mouse (Issaquah, Washington, EUA) ‹ Festival 72810

Modest Mouse are in the running again to win a Grammy award.

Rapper Lupe Fiasco sampled Modest Mouse's Float On on his single The Show Goes On, that was released back in 2010. The song was later featured on his album Lasers that was released in early 2011.

Fiasco has now been nominated for three awards at this year's Grammys: Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Album. Should he win the award for Best Rap Song, he will share the Grammy with Isaac Brock, Eric Judy and Dann Gallucci seeing as how they are the original songwriters.

Modest Mouse was last nominated for a Grammy in 2005, when they were up for Best Rock Song and Best Alternative Music Album for Float On and Good News For People Who Love Bad News. They lost to U2 and Wilco.

Not the best way for Modest Mouse to win their first Grammy, but with these awards having become a bit of a joke in the past decade, I'm not sure anyone cares. But thanks to all the people that have been sending this tip in.

Source: Nominees And Winners | GRAMMY.COM

After a change in New Year's Eve plans, we were able to attend "Brockdemonena" last night in Portland, OR.

Isaac joined Talkdemonic on stage for the last three songs of their set. Performing Talkdemonic's Ending The Orange Glow and Revival, then doing the New Year's Eve countdown before ending with a cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams.

Bask in the awesomeness that is poor cell phone concert footage below, along with a link to equally poor audio/video from the rest of the set.

Source: 2011.12.31 - Mission Theater, Portland, OR - YouTube

Here's some last minute news if you're in the Portland area with nothing to do on New Year's Eve.

Isaac Brock will be performing songs with Talkdemonic tomorrow night, at their New Year's Eve bash at the Mission Theater in Portland, OR. Joining them also will be Menomena. The event is being unofficially dubbed Brockdemonena. Opening the show will be Deelay Ceelay and Brainstorm.

Tickets are still on sale, check the venue website.

Source: Twitter / @Talkdemonic

So, this obviously isn't a Shins fan site, but with Joe Plummer currently drumming for them this becomes slightly relevant.

The Shins announced this morning that they would be releasing a new album in March 2012, entitled Port Of Morrow, on Aural Apothecary/Columbia Records. While their press release states that James Mercer has performed the majority of the instrumentation, it is expected that Joe has performed drums on the album.

The press release also states that they will be announcing tour dates soon and that the tour will feature Joe on drums. This will probably tie up Joe for any potential touring with Modest Mouse.

Source: New Album Port of Morrow Coming March 2012 | The Official The Shins Site

Modest Mouse will be performing at the opening night of Macworld at a concert entitled Macworld | iWorld Opening Night BLAST. The show will be taking place at The Warfield in San Francisco on January 25, 2012. Tickets are available now it seems through some kind of registration process, for what I believe is $35 (but this may be on top of the ticket price for the Macworld expo being held at Moscone Center). Also it sounds like there is a special deal on at the moment, and the price will be going up tomorrow.

The Macworld | iWorld is being held January 26 - 28, 2012 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and is the ultimate fan event for those who use, create, and love Apple products.

Source: Macworld | iWorld BLAST | Macworld | iWorld

Modest Mouse was meant to take the stage today at the SWU Music and Arts Festival in Brazil. Unfortunately the festival organizers have informed us, that due to a "logistical" problem, the band will be unable to do so.

Galera: lamentamos informar que, em nota oficial enviada por sua produção, a banda Modest Mouse anuncia o cancelamento do show por problemas de logística.

From what we've heard earlier, it is believed the band's equipment has been misplaced during their flight to Brazil. This would have marked Modest Mouse's first performance in that country.

UPDATE: Isaac talks about the show's cancellation in this video.

Portlandia is a television series on the Independent Film Channel (IFC), set and filmed in Portland, Oregon. It features Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, of the now-defunct band Sleater-Kinney and current lead guitarist/singer for Wild Flag.

The IFC announced today that season 2 will begin airing on January 6, 2012, and that it will feature Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, as well as other guest stars Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Steve Jones from Sex Pistols, Johnny Marr of The Smiths (and formerly of Modest Mouse), Joanna Newsom, and Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent). All these musicians will be taking up temporary residence in the show's satirical and dreamy rendering of Portland, OR.

Source: Eddie Vedder, Joanna Newsom, St. Vincent, Johnny Marr and More to Guest Star on Season Two of 'Portlandia' - IFC Now - Blogs - IFC.com