The band is Sun Kil Moon and it has remade the songs of alternative rock band Modest Mouse.
Some of Modest Mouse's more hard-rocking fans may conceivably hate this record, but some may like Kozelek's versions better than the originals.
His music also caught the ear of Isaac Brock, the frontman of Modest Mouse, who promptly signed him to his own record label.
The guitarist, who has previously joined forces with Seattle band Modest Mouse, has teamed up with Wakefield trio for their fourth studio album.
For the first time, BBC 6 Music has a stage at Latitude and will host acts including Alt-J, Modest Mouse and Beach House.
After recording with Modest Mouse and The Cribs, Marr releases his debut solo record, The Messenger, two days before the music magazine's annual ceremony.
At Amazon.com, it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
" Working with post-Smiths bands like Modest Mouse or the Cribs, his goal as a guitarist, he said, was to "hide in the shadows, to do something meaningful and expressive.
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At Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
Joe Plummer, drummer for the Shins and for Modest Mouse, a band that has performed for Microsoft, sums it up thus: "I don't really like to talk about these things, " he said at the eBay event.
The Sun Kil Moon version of "Convenient Parking, " from what might be Modest Mouse's best record, 1997's "The Lonesome Crowded West, " definitely gets the song's slow-burn intensity, teasing it out on his acoustic guitar as if over the course of making this record Isaac Brock's high-strung delivery has gotten under Kozelek's skin.
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