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Modest Mouse sinks more US dates on 'Ship'
Modest Mouse has announced an appropriately modest US headlining schedule for late summer, with the band shaping a bundle of its own dates around various festival appearances.
The group will launch the run Aug. 1 in Morrison, CO, with 10 cities worked in between festival gigs, which include the Aug. 4 Virgin Festival in Baltimore, an Aug. 5 slot at Chicago's Lollapalooza, and Download Festival appearances in suburban Boston and rural Washington State. The full itinerary is included below.
The band's schedule also includes various Japan and UK festival commitments, details for which can be glimpsed at the group's official website.
Modest Mouse's fifth studio set, "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank," hit stores in March. The record is the band's first since recruiting former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Originally set for release last December, the album was delayed when Modest Mouse canceled some late-year shows to put in extra studio work.
The set's first single, "Dashboard," is streaming at Modest Mouse's website and MySpace page.
"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."
