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Modest Mouse is an alternative rock band which formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, United States. The band's original lineup consisted of guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy. Since being signed to Sony's Epic Records in 2000, Modest Mouse has attained significant popular success with songs such as "Float On" and "Dashboard."
The band's current configuration is Isaac Brock (vocals, guitar), Tom Peloso (strings, horns, bass, keyboards), Jim Fairchild (guitar), Eric Judy (bass), Jeremiah Green (drums) and Joe Plummer (drums). Plummer has recently become the new drummer for The Shins.
Brock came up with the name...
“…As rough as Paul Simon, as commercial as Ingmar Bergman and as sophisticated as Britney Spears!”
Lonny (Lionel) Ziblat is an Israeli / Argentinean composer who was brought up in a mixture of clutures and musical tastes. Modest Midget was initialy a vague fantasy that surfaced in his mind, which eventualy found its home in the middle of the crossing point between different styles that would normally collide with each other. He gathered some songs that didn't fit in any other frame he'd known and started recording them, giving each the special attention it craved for. Strange as it may...
Changing Face came together in 2004 when four friends from the North Bay Area of California got together with a mission to write straight-to-the-point hardcore music. The band recorded two demos and in late 2005 the band entered Deathbot Studios (Alcatraz) with Phillip Deveroux to record a new EP. "Our Last Chance" is the result of that recording session; seven tracks of venomous hardcore that draws similarities to Figure Four, Madball, Knuckledust, and Folsom. Changing Face had their last show on Dec 23, 2006. Members of Changing Face can be be found playing in Crucified. .
CHANGING MODES
Wendy Griffiths: Vocals, Keyboards, Bass
Grace Pulliam: Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
Denise Mei Yan Hofmann: Guitar, Bass, vocals
Yuzuru Sadashige: Bass, Guitar, vocals
Timur Yusef: Drums, Vocals
The music of New York City based rock band, Changing Modes, began quietly in the mid-90’s when the principal songwriter of the band, Wendy Griffiths (vocals, keyboards, bass) started making her “bedroom tapes.” She says she had no intention of making these songs public. “They were like art songs with very unusual rock beats,” Yuzuru Sadashige (bass, guitar) recalls. “She programmed very complex layers of accompaniment on her Yamaha SY77, then sang...
