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Issaquah, WA, indie rock trio
Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 by vocalist/guitarist
Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah
Green. After honing their muscular sound in "The Shed" --
a makeshift practice space built by Brock on the land
next to his mother's trailer -- Modest Mouse entered
Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios to cut their
1994 self-titled debut single, released on Johnson's
K Records label. Following a move to the Up label,
the trio issued two 1996 LPs, This Is a Long Drive
for Someone With Nothing to Think About and Interstate
8. After returning to K, Modest Mouse released The
Fruit That Ate Itself in 1997; its follow-up from later
that year, The Lonesome Crowded West, was the band's
breakthrough, and in the wake of a major-label bidding
war, they signed to Sony.
The rarities collection Building Nothing
out of Something appeared on Up in early 2000, followed
later that year by their long-awaited Epic debut, The
Moon & Antarctica.
In 2001, the band issued the Everywhere and His Nasty
Parlor Tricks EP and K released Sad Sappy Sucker, a "lost
album" that was intended to be the group's full-length
debut back in 1994.
Brock kept busy with his Ugly Casanova side project,
which delivered Sharpen Your Teeth in 2002. Modest Mouse
finally returned in 2004 with Good News for People Who
Love Bad News, their best-received record and a Top 40
hit as well. For their next record, Brock enlisted the
help of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, who not
only added his songwriting and playing skills to We Were
Dead Before the Ship Even Sank -- which was released
in early 2007 -- but also toured with the band as a member.
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