The 20-city U.S. tour includes stops all over the country before concluding with another two-night performance at the House of Blues in Boston on July 25-26. Some of the tour highlights include the 80/35 Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 4; the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 16; and the Music Farm in Charleston, S.C., on July 20.

The 80/35 Festival will also include performances by Spoon, Holly Golighty & The Brokeoffs and The Heavy, while the Pitchfork Music Festival will also showcase Broken Social Scene, Robyn, Liars, and more!

After Modest Mouse wrap up their U.S. tour, they’re heading overseas for performances in the U.K., Ireland and Netherlands until Sept. 10.

Don’t miss your chance to see this band perform live, get your Modest Mouse tickets today!

In other Modest Mouse news, they will be partaking in Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival July 16, 2010.  This performance is just one of many live shows scheduled throughout this summer so snag Modest Mouse tickets while you can.  For full rundown of cities and dates, visit modestmousemusic.com.

Keep checking back for more Modest Mouse news.

Now, Rolling Stone has assured Modest Mouse that their song “Float On” is indeed one of the best 100 songs of the decade.

Rolling Stone’s ‘Best 100 Songs of the Decade‘ lists Modest Mouse’s “Float On” at No. 38 of 100. The review calls the song “a snappy, silver-lined indie-pop march that asserts, ‘Good news is on the way.’ A summer of ‘04 hit, its chill-pill positivity nailed the zeitgeist during Bush’s re-election: Good news is slow sometimes.”

Modest Mouse has no current tour plans on the books, but they are making an appearance to perform at the Bumbershoot Music Festival in September. But with new material on the way, can a tour be far behind?

Up to this point, the video has not been released. But recently the band confirmed in a U.K. newspaper interview that it would be released “soon.”

How did the idea even come about? Isaac Brock, MM’s frontman, and Ledger had a mutual friend who tossed the idea around with them while they were all hanging out together in Australia. Ledger had already done work with Ben Harper and Nick Drake.

We look forward to seeing this late masterpiece from the talented Heath Ledger.

Check out the new tour dates:

Fri Feb 20 Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre
Sat Feb 21 Chico, CA - Senator Theatre
Sun Feb 22 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
Mon Feb 23 Visalia, CA - The Fox Theatre - SOLD OUT
Tue Feb 24 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
Wed Feb 25 Tempe, AZ - The Marquee
Thu Feb 26 Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Convention Center
Sat Feb 28 Boulder, CO - Balch Fieldhouse
Mon Mar 2 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
Tue Mar 3 Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom
Wed Mar 4 Austin, TX - Stubb’s
Fri Mar 6 - Oxford, MS - The Lyric Oxford - SOLD OUT
Sat Mar 7 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
Mon Mar 9 Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues
Tue Mar 10 Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
Wed Mar 11 Raleigh, NC - Disco Rodeo
Thu Mar 12 Baltimore, MD - Ram’s Head Live
Fri Mar 13 Washington DC - 9:30 Club *with Kinky
Sat Mar 14 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
Sun Mar 15 New York, NY - Terminal 5

 Adding songs like “The Whale Song,” “Satellite Skin” and a track with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band are all re-polished outtakes from Modest Mouse’s last two albums. “I’m not really good at taking it easy” added Brock.

Modest Mouse plans to participate in the annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction. The auction, which consists of autographed posters from various groups and celebrities, supports homeless and underprivileged youngsters. The auction has raised more than $3 million dollars for the cause in the past.

See it for yourself here
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