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:: In today's installment of Bizarre Collaborations, Big Boi is recording songs with Modest Mouse for the group's new album. "It's just like a big-ass brainstorm, a brain-stormin', tsunami, typhoon, tectonic-plates-movin' kind of thing," says the Outkast member, who will also receive a producer credit on the LP. "We do all types of music, so to get the chance to jam with a jammin'-ass band, I knew it was going to be cool." [Vulture]
:: Willow Smith flies through the air in the behind-the-scenes footage of the pint-sized pop star rehearsing for her Kids Choice Awards performance. [Celebuzz]
:: Jennifer Hudson and a few other acts will be paying tribute to Bob Marley all next week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. [EW Music Mix]
:: MTV wonders what every track on Lady Gaga's Born This Way is about. Our favorite guess of what "Highway Unicorn" is about: "A 17-minute overture about socioeconomic class divisions in America and the pitfalls of modern capitalism. Or maybe a dance track, we haven't decided." [MTV Buzzworthy]
:: Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber have both been nominated for an MTV Movie Award, which will only encourage both artists to continue making movies. [Neon Limelight]
Posts Tagged ‘Modest Mouse’
Will “Vinyl Saturday” Drag People Back To The Record Stores?
Wed Jun 3 2009 by Maura
The people behind the one-day indie-music-retail blowout Record Store Day are hoping so; they’ve declared the third Saturday of every month Vinyl Saturday, on which limited-edition vinyl releases will be available at participating indie shops. The first installment is Saturday, June 20, and there will be four special releases on shelves that day: More »
This Week’s Top 12: Remixed Gallaghers, R & B Royalty, And (Surprise!) Ida Maria
Fri Jan 16 2009 by Maura
Welcome to the inaugural version of The Idolator Dozen, our new weekly countdown of notable-slash-positive happenings in the music world as decided by me. To answer your questions: “Why?”; “Ranking things is fun, duh.” “Why 12?”; “Because I like the number, and always have.” “What’s on the list?”; “Whatever I say, plus maybe a few things that I neglected to get to during the week.” “Why now?”; “Why not now?” “When will then be now?”; “Soon.” The top 12 after the jump!
R.E.M. Has, In Fact, Seen The Rain
Mon Jun 16 2008 by Maura
The New York metropolitan area was treated to some fierce (in both power and awesomeness to behold) thunderstorms on Saturday, and they happened to coincide with R.E.M.’s concert at Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater–a venue which, as you might deduce from the name, sits right on the Atlantic Ocean, and which also has a “rain or shine” policy for pretty much all of its shows. In keeping with the evening’s theme, Michael Stipe & Co. opened their set (which was delayed by about half an hour) with a one-two punch of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” and their own “South Central Rain.” (What, no cover Live’s “Lightning Crashes” for the trifecta?) After the jump, footage of Modest Mouse playing through increasingly closing-in lightning, and R.E.M. pulling out a long-banished-from-the-set-list track for the soggy faithful.
Leak Of The Day, Part II: Modest Mouse Smell A “Rat”
Wed Mar 28 2007 by Brian Raftery
Now that the final Soundscan numbers are trickling in, it looks as though today will soon be officially declared Modest Mouse Day–not only here at the Idolator flophouse, but around the world (Bush will speak on the matter at noon, and aides say the President will confess that he finds Johnny… More »
Who Charted? Modest Mouse’s “Ship” Floats Into The No. 1 Spot
Wed Mar 28 2007 by Maura
A mere 10% of our readers thought that Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank would top the 125,000-copies sold mark last week, and it turns out that the minority was right: Thanks in part, no doubt, to some key American Idol placement, the Johnny Marr-fortified outfit sold 129,000 copies of Ship, a tally high enough to give them the No. 1 slot on this week’s Billboard 200. Coming in at No. 2 was ersatz soulstress Joss Stone, whose Introducing Joss Stone moved 118,000 copies last week.
Can Modest Mouse Fire It Up All The Way To Number One?
Tue Mar 27 2007 by Brian Raftery
It’s been a week since Modest Mouse released We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, easily one of this most heavily anticipated albums of mid-March. More »
Isaac Brock Unleashes His Inner Swashbuckler
Tue Mar 20 2007 by Maura
The blurry Isaac Brock photo above was taken during Sunday night’s Modest Mouse show in Sioux Falls, S.D., during which Brock engaged in some knifeplay, according to the Argus Leader’s blog:
After wrestling with his guitar and guitar strap, Brock threw his six-string off his body and began uncoiling the microphone cord wrapped around the mic stand in front of him. After spazzing out while singing some quasi-decipherable vocals, Brock stepped back in a frenzy and sliced his chest.
Watching from in front of the opposite side of the stage – but with a clear view of Brock’s body – I wasn’t close enough to exactly determine what he was doing. But it appeared he had some sort of object in his hand that he used to make two swift cuts on his torso. More »
