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<title>Interstate-8 : A Modest Mouse Fan Collaborative</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:02:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Modest Mouse confirmed for Governors Ball Music Festival</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:47:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The Governors Ball Music Festival announced their lineup this morning, and the hints they'd been dropping turned out to be true. Modest Mouse will be one of the acts performing on June 24, opening for Beck.</p>

<p>Other acts that day apart from Beck, include: Explosions In The Sky, Cults, and Built To Spill.</p>

<p>Because this festival has the band locked for the Sunday, this means that Modest Mouse will most likely be only performing on Saturday June 23 at the <a href="news.php?newsid=321">Orion Music + More festival</a> in Atlantic City.</p>

<p>Tickets for this event go on sale tomorrow, February 22, through the <a href="http://govball-govballneonbox.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">festival's website</a>. Watch a video of the announcement below.</p>

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<title>Isaac performs at &quot;Songs For Joel&quot; benefit</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:07:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Here's something that completely flew under our radar.</p>

<p>It was brought to our attention yesterday, that Isaac performed solo this past Thursday evening at a benefit in Portland, OR entitled "Songs For Joel". The purpose of which was to raise money for Joel Burrows who was seriously injured last year and required funds for a special wheelchair.</p>

<p>The show also included Spoon's Britt Daniel and ex Sleater-Kinney members Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss.</p>

<p>Isaac's five song set included four Modest Mouse songs and a cover of Love As Laughter's "Miss Direction". For the complete set, check out the <a href="tourdates.php?eventid=955">tour date archive</a>.</p>

<p>Thanks to NovocainHurricane for bringing the show to our attention, and JB for the complete set list.</p>]]></description>
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<title>The Governors Ball Music Festival?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The Governors Ball Music Festival is taking place on June 23 and 24 at Randall's Island in New York, NY. This is the same weekend that Modest Mouse is confirmed to be performing at <a href="news.php?newsid=321">Metallica's Orion Music + More</a> festival in nearby Atlantic City.</p>

<p>The Governors Ball will be announcing its full lineup on February 21. Until then, they have started dropping hints on their Facebook page. Including one today of a cartoon mouse being modest, making it look very likely that Modest Mouse will be performing at that festival as well.</p>

<p>Tickets have yet to go on sale, and remember that if they do before the 21st, this is not confirmed. Keep an eye on <a href="http://governorsballmusicfestival.com/" target=_blank">The Governors Ball Music Festival's website</a> for more info.</p>

<p>If this turns out to be true, it definitely looks like Modest Mouse will only be performing on one day at the Orion Music + More festival. So be careful when buying tickets there, if you weren't planning on going for the whole weekend.</p>

<p>Thanks go to Miike S for bringing this to our attention.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Orion Music + More</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:23:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The inaugural Orion Music + More festival will be held on June 23 & 24 at Bader Field, a Municipal Airport just outside Atlantic City, NJ.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>They 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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>We will update as we hear more.</p>]]></description>
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<title>The Isaac Brock Portlandia episode</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:39:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>As <a href="http://interstate-8.com/news.php?newsid=312">previously mentioned</a>, 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.</p>

<p>The episode will also feature guest appearances by Kyle MacLachlan, Annie Clark and  Sean Hayes.</p>

<p>Portlandia airs at 10pm on IFC.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Festival 72810</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>We're a little behind on this live date that was quietly added to Modest Mouse's website about a week ago.</p>

<p>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 Andr&eacute;s Cholula on March 10.</p>

<p>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.</p>]]></description>
<author>Gregg</author>
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<title>Modest Mouse nominated for a Grammy (sort of...)</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:27:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Modest Mouse are in the running again to win a Grammy award.</p>

<p>Rapper Lupe Fiasco sampled Modest Mouse's Float On on his single <a href="discography.php?releaseid=126">The Show Goes On</a>, that was released back in 2010. The song was later featured on his album <a href="discography.php?releaseid=132">Lasers</a> that was released in early 2011.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Modest Mouse was last nominated for a Grammy in 2005, when they were up for Best Rock Song and Best Alternative Music Album for <a href="discography.php?releaseid=17">Float On</a> and <a href="discography.php?releaseid=4">Good News For People Who Love Bad News</a>. They lost to U2 and Wilco.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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<title>Isaac rings in the New Year with Talkdemonic</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>After a change in New Year's Eve plans, we were able to attend "Brockdemonena" last night in <a href="tourdates.php?eventid=952">Portland, OR</a>.</p> 

<p>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.<p>

<p>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.</p>

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<title>Isaac performing with Talkdemonic on New Year's Eve</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Here's some last minute news if you're in the Portland area with nothing to do on New Year's Eve.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Tickets are still on sale, check the <a href="http://mcmenamins.com/events/95822-2012-New-Years-Eve" target="_blank">venue website</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<title>The Shins announce new album</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>So, this obviously isn't a Shins fan site, but with Joe Plummer currently drumming for them this becomes slightly relevant.</p>

<p>The Shins announced this morning that they would be releasing a new album in March 2012, entitled <em>Port Of Morrow</em>, 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.</p>

<p>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.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Modest Mouse performing at the opening night of Macworld</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:35:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>
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<title>Modest Mouse has to cancel Brazilian show</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:01:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>

<blockquote>Galera: lamentamos informar que, em nota oficial enviada por sua produ&ccedil;&atilde;o, a banda Modest Mouse anuncia o cancelamento do show por problemas de log&iacute;stica.</blockquote>

<p>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.</p>

<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Isaac talks about the show's cancellation in <a href="http://multishow.globo.com/platb/swu-2011/2011/11/14/isaac-brock-vocalista-do-modest-mouse-fala-sobre-o-cancelamento-de-seu-show/" target="_blank">this video</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Isaac Brock appearing on Portlandia</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Watch the new video for Mister Heavenly's Bronx Sniper</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Joe Plumer's side project, Mister Heavenly, has a video out for Bronx Sniper, a track off their recently released album, Out Of Love.</p>

<p>The video was directed by Corey Adams and Alex Craig, features quite a bit of mayhem, and is worth the watch.</p>

<p>Mister Heavenly has also updated their tour schedule. See them live at one of the dates below.</p>

<p>Board admin, MajinTrunx, also points out that these dates <a href="http://board.interstate-8.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=916&start=15#p5754">conflict with the upcoming Modest Mouse dates</a> in Texas and Brazil. Meaning that Joe most likely not be performing on those dates, and that drum duties will be performed soley by Jeremiah, unless Modest Mouse get someone in to temporarily replace Joe.</p>

<p>11-04 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church<br />
11-05 Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery<br />
11-06 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506<br />
11-07 Charleston, SC - Tin Roof<br />
11-08 St. Augustine, FL - Caf&eacute; Eleven<br />
11-09 Orlando, FL - Back Booth<br />
11-10 Atlanta, GA - The Earl<br />
11-11 Lexington, KY - Cosmic Charlie's<br />
11-12 St. Louis, MO - Firebird<br />
11-13 Chicago, IL - Subterranean<br />
11-14 Pontiac, MI - Pike Room<br />
11-15 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop<br />
11-16 Toronto, Ontario - Great Hall<br />
11-17 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore<br />
11-18 Milford, CT - Daniel Street<br />
11-19 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts<br />
11-20 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge<br />
11-30 Ghent, Belgium - Charlatan<br />
12-01 Rennes, France - Transmusicales<br />
12-02 Paris, France - L&rsquo;International<br />
12-03 Lille, France - La Peniche<br />
12-04 Koln, Germany - Gebaude 9<br />
12-05 Hamburg, Germany - Molotow<br />
12-06 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso<br />
12-08 Berlin, Germany - Privatclub<br />
12-09 Munich, Germany - Atomic Cafe<br />
12-10 Dijon, France - Generiq Hotel de Vogue<br />
12-12 London, England - Cargo
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<title>Texas dates</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Modest Mouse has just added two tour dates in Texas to their schedule. These dates will precede the only tour date on it at the moment, which is their one-off show in Brazil. Might this be the sign of more dates or just a few warm up ones before they hit South America?</p>

<p>They will be performing at Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin on November 9, and the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas on November 10. Talkdemonic will be opening. Tickets go on sale on October 21.</p>

<p>Thanks to Mike for the heads up.</p>

<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> A second show has been added to Austin, the first show has sold out. That's to Luke for this new info.</p>]]></description>
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