Resurrecting the dead isn’t a good idea. Logistically, the reawakened can be hard to manage. They need stapling together, a good scrub down, maybe a change of clothes. Think of the first Austin Powers ...

Modest Mouse, headlining White Oak Music Hall Oct. 8 with Future Islands, turns 30 next year. Plenty of bands have stuck around that long. But consider R.E.M. — a standard bearer for indie rock ...

Modest Mouse were the perfect “right time, right place” band for the early Aughts indie-rock gold rush. They had legit Nineties alt-rock bona fides (Beat Happening’s Calvin Johnson co-produced Mouse’s ...

Modest Mouse fans are used to waiting. The band, led by vocalist and guitarist Isaac Brock, helped define the sound of Pacific Northwest indie rock—the group formed in Issaquah, Wash., and is now ...