Given the unlikely, phenomenal success of Modest Mouse's 2004 disc "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," the story line on the new album seemed sure to focus on the long-indie band's response to ...

In perhaps some of the strangest/coolest news to hit the music scene this week, legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has become a full-fledged, official member of American indie-rock band Modest ...

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Johnny Marr played to a sold-out crowd at the Eastern on Thursday evening. Marr, who rose to fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of The Smiths, has also ...

Modest Mouse has announced a tour of the US without guitarist Johnny Marr, who is busy working on an album with The Cribs. No word is he is still an official member of the band or not. I hope he is.

Manchester guitar god Johnny Marr, who turned 60 on Halloween, is best-known for his work in a bunch of different bands — the Smiths, obviously, but also Electronic, Modest Mouse, and a bunch of ...

There’s little difference between the Modest Mouse of 2007 and the Modest Mouse of 2013. The band has released just an odds-and-ends EP since its last Tucson visit. And aside from the notable ...

Modest Mouse's Johnny Marr has admitted he is "fired up" about his band's forthcoming American tour with REM. Speaking to BBC 6Music, the guitarist said he is looking forward to hearing REM play their ...