I ventured out into the wild to check out the Future Islands / Modest Mouse show at Diamond Ballroom last night, so this week's news round-up will be a bit quicker than usual.
Overall, it was a pretty good show. Although I fit in a little too well with the crowd – if you were a pot-bellied guy in your 40s with a beard, shaved head and glasses, it was the place to be in OKC – it was good to get out and enjoy live music and risk getting a Covid breakthrough infection in the process.
I've been a Future Islands fan since 2011 when I came across their track "Inch Of Dust" during a pool love scene in Shameless, which as a certified indie music snob who had a specialty show on The Spy before it was cool, is something I like to point out to people who didn't become fans until David Letterman went nuts for the band in 2014.
I made the mistake of being in the beer line when played that signature track, but they absolutely took down the house with what should have been their closer – Tin Man.
Modest Mouse was Modest Mouse. I'm not a super fan, but I like a lot of their stuff, especially from the 90s. You can't argue they're one of the most influential and commercially successful indie bands of all time. If you were going to make a Mt. Rushmore of indie rock frontmen, you'd be hard-pressed not to include Isaac Brock, not just for his work in Modest Mouse, but for producing Wolf Parade's 2005 classic "Apologies to Queen Mary."