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Issaquah, Washington, United States (1993 – present)

Modest Mouse is an band which formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, United States. The band’s original lineup consisted of guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy. Since being signed to Sony’s Epic Records in 2000, Modest Mouse has attained significant popular success with songs such as “Float On” and “Dashboard.”

The band’s current configuration is Isaac Brock (vocals, guitar), Tom Peloso (strings, horns, bass, keyboards), Jim Fairchild (guitar), Eric Judy (bass), Jeremiah Green (drums) and Joe Plummer (drums). Plummer has recently become the new drummer for The Shins.

Brock came up with the name “Modest Mouse” when he read the Virginia Woolf stream of consciousness essay The Mark On the Wall in which the author described the working middle class as “modest mouse-coloured people”

Brock frequently moved around with his mother when he was a child. Around this time, his mother left his father for his father’s brother (Brock’s uncle). Brock’s mother’s house flooded and forced them to move into his mother’s new husband’s trailer, but there was no room for Brock. Brock stayed behind, living in the second story of the flooded house, until he was eventually evicted by police. He then moved into a shed next to his mother’s house and it is said this is where Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy first began playing music.
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  • ildar_ildar

    Dashboard

    39 minutes ago Reply

  • Collis

    when isaac smokes on stage everyone gets the cigs out. smoking ban or not.

    Yesterday 4:29am Reply

  • Srhz

    What's up? make love? [3]

    21 May 10:12pm Reply

  • SmellsLikeIrony

    Change that damn pixelated main picture.

    21 May 4:00pm Reply

  • Fernando_0

    dem distorted guitars & lo-fi riffs

    15 May 9:03pm Reply

  • Harry_01

    What's up? make love? [2]

    15 May 11:40am Reply

  • YorkNew

    What's up? make love?

    11 May 4:10pm Reply

  • lndeed

    Makes enough sense. I was looking at their wikipedia page and saw they had a single called Whenever You See Fit. Figured I'd share it, in case anybody else hadn't heard it before.

    8 May 2:38am Reply

  • naotas_forehead

    Actually I really don't care about scrobbles, but I enjoy post-2002 Modest Mouse a hell of a lot more when I think of them as a different band with some of the same people in it.

    7 May 7:41pm Reply

  • Jedidude77

    Indeed

    7 May 3:59pm Reply

  • naotas_forehead

    Saying pre-2000 and post-2000 also makes it ambiguous where the Moon & Antarctica falls

    7 May 2:27pm Reply

  • naotas_forehead

    Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks was released in 2001.

    7 May 2:23pm Reply

  • lndeed

    2002?

    7 May 6:45am Reply

  • naotas_forehead

    Pre-2002 Modest Mouse and post-2002 Modest Mouse should scrobble as a different bands. [2]

    6 May 2:12pm Reply

  • SillyRabbitStew

    Pre-2000 Modest Mouse and post-2000 Modest Mouse should scrobble as a different bands.

    6 May 1:53am Reply

  • n_t_sh

    <3

    2 May 8:33pm Reply

  • Simon_FM

    Aye.

    1 May 8:32pm Reply

  • Jedidude77

    i'm hoping the new album has good album art.

    1 May 1:06am Reply

  • tylerstravis

    To all those talking about Coachella... The band is SUPER hit and miss depending on Issac's intoxication level. My guess, he was WAAAASTED at Coachella... I know I always was :)

    26 Apr 9:57pm Reply

  • aikoilagan

    i can't wait till Isaac Brock's lyrics tear my heart into pieces again. 4 years is worth the wait.

    25 Apr 7:33am Reply
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