Modest Mouse play Missoula as An Eraser and a Maze era gathers momentum

Modest Mouse play The Wilma in Missoula, Montana on 13 May with Mattress, giving the day a major indie-rock live hook. The date is part of the band’s 2026 touring activity around An Eraser and a Maze, their upcoming album due 5 June through Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace Recordings.

That release is important because it marks the band’s first independent album since The Lonesome Crowded West, bringing Modest Mouse back closer to the kind of self-directed territory that shaped their earliest mythology. The Missoula show is more than another tour stop. It places one of Pacific Northwest indie rock’s defining bands in a mountain-state room where their crooked, anxious, expansive songs make natural sense.

With Mattress opening, the bill also has an oddball underground edge, balancing Modest Mouse’s catalogue weight with stranger synth-lounge atmosphere. For indie readers, this is a useful 13 May live item because it connects legacy, independence and a new album campaign. Source: https://www.ticketmaster.com/modest-mouse-missoula-montana-05-13-2026/event/1E006437CD4DC1C6 ; Album news: https://pitchfork.com/news/modest-mouse-album-an-eraser-and-a-maze