Modest Mouse plots summer dates with and without R.E.M.
Modest Mouse has lined up a late-spring/early summer schedule that includes a number of headlining shows worked into and around a run of support dates for R.E.M.
The Pacific Northwest alt-rockers will play their first show with R.E.M. May 23 in Vancouver, British Columbia, followed by an appearance the following day (5/24) at George, WA's Sasquatch! music festival.
Once the band's opening duties are fulfilled in mid-June, the group will tackle a stretch of pure headlining shows through early July. Details are below.
Modest Mouse continues to support its fifth studio set, "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank," which hit stores last March. The record is the band's first since recruiting former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Upon its release, the new album entered The Billboard 200 chart at the No. 1 position, making it the band's highest-debuting effort to date.
"We Were Dead ..." follows 2004's "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," which earned the band its first platinum-album certification and spawned the hit song "Float On."
A recent photo posted at the band's website shows frontman Isaac Brock and other members of the band working on new songs, according to the photo's caption. In a recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Brock told an interviewer that his current priority is to release a Modest Mouse EP including songs left off of the band's previous two albums.
May 2008
23 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Deer Lake Park (w/ R.E.M.)
24 - George, WA - Sasquatch! Festival
25 - Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater (w/ The Breeders, The National)
27 - Reno, NV - Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra
29 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl (w/ R.E.M.)
31 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre (w/ R.E.M.)
June 2008
1 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre (w/ R.E.M.)
3 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (w/ R.E.M.)
4 - Council Bluffs, IA - Westfair Amphitheatre
5 - St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
6 - Chicago, IL - United Center (w/ R.E.M.)
8 - Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheater (w/ R.E.M.)
10 - Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheatre (w/ R.E.M.)
11 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion (w/ R.E.M.)
13 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center (w/ R.E.M.)
14 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre (w/ R.E.M.)
16 - Rochester, NY - Main Street Armory
18 - Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for Performing Arts (w/ R.E.M.)
19 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden (w/ R.E.M.)
21 - Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre (w/ R.E.M.)
23 - Miami Beach, FL - Fillmore Miami Beach
24 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Cafe
25 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Theater
26 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
28 - Norfolk, VA - The NorVa
29 - Charlottesville, VA - Charlottesville Pavilion
30 - Rostraver, PA - Ice Garden
July 2008
1 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
2 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
4 - Rothbury, MI - Rothbury Festival
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