Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse playing a set on April 30, 2007 at the United Palace Theater in New York City
Background information
Origin	Issaquah, Washington, United States
Genres	Indie rock alternative rock
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Epic Up K Matador Glacial
Associated acts	Big Boi Brand New Built to Spill Cake Califone The Catheters Cold War Kids The Cribs De La Soul Dirty Dozen Brass Band The Flaming Lips Grandaddy The Hackensaw Boys The Helio Sequence Kinky Love as Laughter Mister Heavenly The Murder City Devils Red Red Meat Red Stars Theory Satisfact Seasick Steve The Shins Talkdemonic Ugly Casanova Vells Zeus Jimenez 764-HERO World Gang
Website	www.modestmouse.com
Members	Isaac Brock Jeremiah Green Tom Peloso Jim Fairchild Russell Higbee Lisa Molinaro Davey Brozowski Ben Massarella
Past members	Eric Judy Joe Plummer Johnny Marr Dann Gallucci Benjamin Weikel Robin Peringer John Wickhart

Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington, (a suburb of Seattle) and currently based in Portland, Oregon. The founding members are lead singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Strongly influenced by groups Pavement, the Pixies, XTC, and Talking Heads, the band rehearsed, rearranged, and recorded demos for almost two years before finally signing with small-town indie label, K Records, and releasing numerous singles. Since the band's 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, the group's lineup has centered on Brock and Green. Judy performed on every Modest Mouse album until his departure in 2012. Guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of the Smiths) joined the band in 2006, shortly following percussionist Joe Plummer (formerly of the Black Heart Procession) and multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, to work on the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Guitarist Jim Fairchild joined the band in 2009. The band's sixth album, Strangers to Ourselves, was released on March 17, 2015.

The band's name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall," which reads, "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."