Modest Mouse are celebrating the 20th anniversary of 'Good News for People Who Love Bad News' with a new tour.
. Featuring their hit “Float On,” the album elevated the band from the indie underground to the rock mainstream and remains their most commercially successful work. The tour will kick off in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 28th and wind up with a series of Brooklyn shows in late November. Earlier this year, Legacy Recordings released an expanded edition, with eight bonus tracks, including brand new remixes from Poolside, Jacknife Lee, Dan the Automator, and MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden.
Formed in Portland, Oregon, by lead singer-guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy, the band first found widespread attention with their landmark 1997 albumthey found commercial success thanks to the hit single “Float On,” a song that set Brock’s sanguine lyrics about dealing with life’s hassles to a bright, buoyant track that sounded closer to Talking Heads than any of their peers in the Upper Northwest indie scene.
went double platinum and was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music Album category. The band followed it with, which featured Smiths co-founder Johnny Marr on guitar. Modest Mouse continued releasing albums with Brock at the helm despite cycling through a rotating cast of band members. Their most recent release was 2021’s The Golden Casket. In 2022, drummer Jeremiah Green died of cancer.
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