Modest Mouse is going to have a huge 2026, they hope. That includes a new album and a bunch of new tour dates.

Modest Mouse should be one of your favorite alternative bands of the past few decades. Not all their songs are for everyone, and all might be for none, but if you understand the band, it's a gift.

I first listened to Modest Mouse in 2008, in my family’s old, beat-up Acura that still had a cigarette lighter in it. My friend had burned me a couple CDs from the band’s discography, with the album ...