Modest Mouse announce ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’ 25th anniversary US tour
nme.comModest Mouse have announced a North American tour celebrating two and a half decades since they released their breakthrough second album, 1997’s ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’.Kicking off in November, the band will tour as a four-piece on the road, with founding members Isaac Brock and Jeremiah Green joined by Russell Higbee and Simon O’Connor – who joined the band in 2012 and 2021 respectively.The 20-date tour will begin at the Wilma Theater in Missoula on November 18 and will continue along to Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and more before wrapping up on December 17 at Terminal 5 in New York.
See dates and venues below – tickets go on sale this Friday (September 9) at 10am local time.For the tour, Modest Mouse are reissuing ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’ as a picture disc.
That pressing will be available at shows on the tour. The album was last reissued back in 2014 through Brock’s own label, Glacial Pace.Modest Mouse have released five more albums in the 25 years since ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’ arrived – including 2000 follow-up ‘The Moon & Antarctica’, 2004’s ‘Good News for People Who Love Bad News’ and 2007’s ‘We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank’.
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