Good morning! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the music well is bubbling with lots of good news. To honor it, we’re going to play 50/50! One of these stories is real, and the other one isn’t — well, actually, maybe it’s true, too? We will get to that. For now, let’s start with what we do know.
Hear Modest Mouse’s First New Song in 8 Years
Veteran indie rockers Modest Mouse announced they are releasing a brand new album on March 3 titled Strangers to Ourselves. Pre-orders are available now for the 15-track release. Now, their lead single, “Lampshades on Fire,” is finally out, making it their first new song in eight long years.
Superfans will recognize the song since they have performed it live at various shows over the years, but for the rest of us, it serves as a cozy reminder of why Isaac Brock first won us over way back when. His signature half-yell, half-mumble rambling stomps along funk riffs and stoic drumming, picking back up where they left off. Welcome back, guys. We’ve missed ya.
Death Grips Are Going on Tour
Don’t get too excited, but Death Grips may be going on tour. Twitter account @bbpoltergiest is supposedly associated with the duo (who are, keep in mind, “broken-up”) and posted “we’re going on tour” late last night. The only evidence indicated the Twitter account is linked to the band is a screenshot from their “Inanimate Sensation” video in August — almost four months before the actual video was released.
In September, they also tweeted “everyone thinks we broke up but we didnt.” Considering they announcing their upcoming record jenny death has yet to be released, this could be a tour to support the album. Then again, a “tour” means nothing. Death Grips have cancelled or failed to show up at the majority of their shows in the past. So, a more accurate title for this bit of new would be “Death Grips” Are “Going on Tour”. Yeah, even the band’s name gets quotation marks, because we aren’t even sure anymore if they’re real at all. This whole phenomenon seems to be a giant, noisy, Bjork-filled hallucination… and we can’t help but get wrapped up in it.
