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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It really kind of formulated a lot of people in
my generation. Matt, you know, subscribes to this as well.
Formulates kind of part of who we were and a
voice for us. And one of the most eclectic sounding
bands in that genre that I just loved listening to
and had the records is Modest Mouse and they're going
to becoming November the twelfth here to Steel House, Omaha.
It's going to be an incredible show and we are
honored to be joined by their front man, Isaac Brock
(00:22):
on the phone line. Isaac, first of all, thanks so
much for giving us some time. You're in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm doing fantastic, man. I gotta ask first and foremost,
how do you get into music and come up with
your sound? Because you was a vocalist and a guitar
player and the sound you guys have is so unique.
How did that develop as you got into the music industry?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh geez, that's there's multi faceted answer there. But anyways,
listen to a lot of a lot of different types
of music and tried being all of them or incorporating
all of them into into what we were doing, and
that ends up with something kind of strange. It sort
of looking to your fridge to just pick out like
(01:01):
twenty things that you're in the mood to eat, and
you're like, this will be as smoothie, and then it
turns out to be a really weird smoothie.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, yeah, that's one other thing. I watch some of
your live performances. I haven't actually seen you guys live
in person. I'm really excited to next month at Steelhouse.
But one of the things about you as a live
performer is, I mean, just the vocal delivery that you
have as well. Was that something you always kind of
were experimenting with as you were a young person in
this industry, or was that something you kind of developed
(01:30):
along the way to make yourself stand out?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
All Right, if I'm going to give you a fair
amountess answer, I don't have perspective. Man. You know, it's
not particularly easy to actually, uh, I'm just singing and
apparently that's how it sounds.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, Well, I love it. I've you know, Dashboard. We
played Dashboard, one of you guys hit songs, and just
the way that those lyrics are delivered just makes me
want to sing it as loud as I possibly can.
We're speaking with Isaac Brock, who is the front man
and singer songwriter. He's part of Modus Mouse coming to
Omaha coming up on November the twelfth at Steelhouse Downtown.
(02:10):
It's going to be a great show. Is there a
song or a couple that you've written that when you
finish them, you knew right away this is some of
the best stuff I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, I've felt that way about the song that
stars our Projectors, you know. I mean, it wasn't something
that ever made it on the radio because it's a
it's a pretty long long ride, so you know, yeah,
I felt pretty damn good about that one. But it's
also maybe like five different songs, Crampton one.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I mean, you know, there there are songs where I'm like,
this is great, this is a no brainer, but it
just you know, I was the biggest fan.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I got to say, you know, I'm always curious
because I've asked different artists this about their just like
kind of what the the experience.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Of the industry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
There's so many high profile artists that have had different experiences,
positive and negative, with deciding what songs should be singles
or how involved the you know, music labels were in
the creative process or how many of them were just
kind of left to do their art. Well, it's been
kind of your I mean, you guys have been at
it for a long time now. What's been your experience
(03:24):
with the industry as a whole in how much people
you know, how high profile you guys have been, how
many people get a hold of that stuff before we
actually shared on the radio.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
As far as they writing and recording, they've are, the
labels have always consistently left us entirely alone. And then
when there's a finished product and I turn it in,
to be honest, like I might be like, hey, I
think this song is good, but I don't know how
(03:55):
people choose a song for radio or otherwise, and I
don't really you know, I don't care care to be
involved in that process, like you know, go forth with
your bad self. Like I mean, half the time, I
would have picked the prettier, more mellow song and they
went with you know, if I if it was listing
my own device, it's like something like good News World
(04:21):
at large, like oh that's the single, but.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know, yeah, yeah, Well I'm looking at you know,
like your discography and It just kind of reminds me that, gosh,
it's been, you know, twenty years since I first heard
you guys, and how much music that you guys have
been able to put together here. So we're speaking with
Isaac Brock by the way, for just tuning in, the
lead singer from Modest Mouse, who's coming to Omaha at
(04:45):
Steelhouse on November the twelfth. Yeah, for you personally, who
were a couple of artists as you were kind of
you know, I talked about me listening to two bands
like you and that kind of you know, meant a
lot to me to have somebody kind of with a
voice that made made me feel something with that music
and just wanting to listen to those songs over and
over again. Were there artists like that for you as
(05:06):
you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I mean so many, so so so many. You know,
I did James Brown, the Dead Milkman, even the Passies
I wore in the groups on that, you know, DC Boys,
Talking Heads, Pavement, so many many bands. There's a guy
(05:29):
named Doc Bogs. He just sang poorly and played the
band in banjo. He founded very much never sober, but
I think that might it's been how he's saying hard
to tell. I think it was from like the twenties
or thirties, but of the last century anyways.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Hey, I got a producer. His name is Matt.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He's alongside and you know, I mentioned that I was
working on trying to get Isaac Brock on the show
from Modest Mouse, and Matt's never lit up for an
opportunity to actually be a part of one of these
interviews before. So I'm gonna let Mat ask you a
question here real quick.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Good, Hi, Matt, Hey, Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
This is I don't even I can't even begin. I'm
beside myself in tongue tide right now. First off, thank you.
Your music was a companion of mine when I grew
up in the backstreets of York, Nebraska, driving around listening
to Modest Mouse as a kid. So this is amazing
and my heart is beating about two hundred beats per
a second right now. I just Ugly Casanova is a
(06:25):
favorite of mine. I wanted to know, are you still
in touch with Graham and are you going to make
more Ugly Casanova music in the future.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I made Graham up. Graham didn't exist I just didn't
have to answer any questions about the record, so I
blamed it on an imaginary character.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
All right, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, yeah, I'm either really dead with him or I'm
very much non Yeah. I decided that after I'm done
with this next record, I think I'm gonna maybe try
and do some sort of ugly Casanova.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Say, amazing, there you go, Matt. Yeah, his smile has
never and bigger, which is really funny. All right, Isaac Brock,
last question for you. We're running close up to the
top of the hour, and you've been so generous to
give us some time here today. We're excited for the
show Steelhouse. The Steelhouse is an incredible venue. I've seen
several shows there in the year and a half this
thing has been open. But you know, people who haven't
(07:19):
seen Modest Mouse, I'm sure are in for a real
treat and a unique experience. What can people expect when
they're all buying their tickets to watch you guys play
next month at the Steelhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, in this specific thing we're doing, we're doing the
Good News record front to back. But there's a catch.
The record itself is only forty five minutes long, so
after that, we're doing another different record after it, front
to back. So yeah, two records.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, and I always love those, to be honest with you,
because then you can just prep with the record and
then read discover all those deep cuts that you probably
never thought you'd ever hear. The band get to play live.
It's one of my favorite experiences with anybody. I'm gonna
be there. Youre going to see me there on November
the twelfth, seven o'clock Star Time Modest Mouse at Steelhouse.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Omaha.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Isaac Brock will be doing the lead vocals and playing
the music that he has written. And Isaac once again
on behalf of my producer, Matt. We really appreciate you
giving us some time. It's a real big thrill for
both of us to get to chat with you. You can't
wait to see on that stage next month.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I thank you very much. Have a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah you too. How about that? All right, Matt Case
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow, Yeah, that's good. That's a real treat. Really appreciate
Isaac Brock from getting there. Favorite Modest Mouse song.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh you know what, I'm just gonna have to say
the first one that ever never ending math Equation is
the song that I heard, maybe the first Modest Mouse
song that I heard, that was just this is different.
This is different. It hits me a different way, it
speaks to me a different way. I was just, you know,
a moody, sixteen year old dumb kid from York, Nebraska
cranking that for my speakers, driving around those old dusty
(08:58):
roads late at night. So I just, yeah, that one
for me. But there's so many others drama mean, uh,
Interstate eight, so many.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So for those who aren't super familiar, we played float
on And this is a thing that Modest Mouse apparently
has done on a lot of shows.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is just play albums as part of like a show.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You go there and you kind of just experience like
whole chunks of their music and not necessarily them playing
like their greatest hits, which is a different vibe than
you know a lot of other you know, big bands.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I went to self fallout Boy, right, and I like
fallout Boy, And if they were playing like from Under
the Cork Tree or Infinity on High front to back,
I would have been like so jacked out about floor seats.
I would have been like I would have been upfront,
I would have been going crazy. I went and saw
Fallout Boy and I recognized like four songs.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Wow, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Maybybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, but like
sixty percent of the stuff that they played was within
the last decade when their music changed and I just
wasn't listening to it anymore. And you're going to go
to this You're going to go to this show for
Modest Mouse, and you're going to experience the entirety of
a record and you know what to expect, you know
what to listen to to get yourself amped for it,
(10:09):
and then get to see it performed in a live settings.
That's a completely different experience. So big thanks to Isaac
Brock for that. By the way, to answer the question,
I first heard Modest Mouse in a commercial. Float On
was in a commercial. I was like, man, that's sweet
guitar riff. And then I saw the music video for
that on I think VH one. The video for float
(10:29):
On was on, which is just a crazy contraption of
just like illusionismok, almost kind of that just keeps coming,
and I was just like so enthralled by that, and
I started listening to more of their songs and I
just got hooked on him. The follow up album after that, Dashboard.
Johnny Marr of the Smiths Legend was a part of
(10:50):
the band for a bit and wrote some of the stuff.
That stuff, the Johnny Modest Mouse stuff some of my
favorite stuff from that era. So go look them up
if you haven't listened to them. It's just a really
interesting and eclectic band from an era that Matt and
I obviously mean a lot to us and anybody probably
in their thirties. Big thanks to Isaac Brock for joining
us today right here on news radio eleven ten kfab
It really kind of formulated a lot of people in
my generation. Matt, you know, subscribes to this as well.
Formulates kind of part of who we were and a
voice for us. And one of the most eclectic sounding
bands in that genre that I just loved listening to
and had the records is Modest Mouse and they're going
to becoming November the twelfth here to Steel House, Omaha.
It's going to be an incredible show and we are
honored to be joined by their front man, Isaac Brock
(00:22):
on the phone line. Isaac, first of all, thanks so
much for giving us some time. You're in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm doing fantastic, man. I gotta ask first and foremost,
how do you get into music and come up with
your sound? Because you was a vocalist and a guitar
player and the sound you guys have is so unique.
How did that develop as you got into the music industry?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh geez, that's there's multi faceted answer there. But anyways,
listen to a lot of a lot of different types
of music and tried being all of them or incorporating
all of them into into what we were doing, and
that ends up with something kind of strange. It sort
of looking to your fridge to just pick out like
(01:01):
twenty things that you're in the mood to eat, and
you're like, this will be as smoothie, and then it
turns out to be a really weird smoothie.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, yeah, that's one other thing. I watch some of
your live performances. I haven't actually seen you guys live
in person. I'm really excited to next month at Steelhouse.
But one of the things about you as a live
performer is, I mean, just the vocal delivery that you
have as well. Was that something you always kind of
were experimenting with as you were a young person in
this industry, or was that something you kind of developed
(01:30):
along the way to make yourself stand out?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
All Right, if I'm going to give you a fair
amountess answer, I don't have perspective. Man. You know, it's
not particularly easy to actually, uh, I'm just singing and
apparently that's how it sounds.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, Well, I love it. I've you know, Dashboard. We
played Dashboard, one of you guys hit songs, and just
the way that those lyrics are delivered just makes me
want to sing it as loud as I possibly can.
We're speaking with Isaac Brock, who is the front man
and singer songwriter. He's part of Modus Mouse coming to
Omaha coming up on November the twelfth at Steelhouse Downtown.
(02:10):
It's going to be a great show. Is there a
song or a couple that you've written that when you
finish them, you knew right away this is some of
the best stuff I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, I've felt that way about the song that
stars our Projectors, you know. I mean, it wasn't something
that ever made it on the radio because it's a
it's a pretty long long ride, so you know, yeah,
I felt pretty damn good about that one. But it's
also maybe like five different songs, Crampton one.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I mean, you know, there there are songs where I'm like,
this is great, this is a no brainer, but it
just you know, I was the biggest fan.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I got to say, you know, I'm always curious
because I've asked different artists this about their just like
kind of what the the experience.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Of the industry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
There's so many high profile artists that have had different experiences,
positive and negative, with deciding what songs should be singles
or how involved the you know, music labels were in
the creative process or how many of them were just
kind of left to do their art. Well, it's been
kind of your I mean, you guys have been at
it for a long time now. What's been your experience
(03:24):
with the industry as a whole in how much people
you know, how high profile you guys have been, how
many people get a hold of that stuff before we
actually shared on the radio.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
As far as they writing and recording, they've are, the
labels have always consistently left us entirely alone. And then
when there's a finished product and I turn it in,
to be honest, like I might be like, hey, I
think this song is good, but I don't know how
(03:55):
people choose a song for radio or otherwise, and I
don't really you know, I don't care care to be
involved in that process, like you know, go forth with
your bad self. Like I mean, half the time, I
would have picked the prettier, more mellow song and they
went with you know, if I if it was listing
my own device, it's like something like good News World
(04:21):
at large, like oh that's the single, but.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know, yeah, yeah, Well I'm looking at you know,
like your discography and It just kind of reminds me that, gosh,
it's been, you know, twenty years since I first heard
you guys, and how much music that you guys have
been able to put together here. So we're speaking with
Isaac Brock by the way, for just tuning in, the
lead singer from Modest Mouse, who's coming to Omaha at
(04:45):
Steelhouse on November the twelfth. Yeah, for you personally, who
were a couple of artists as you were kind of
you know, I talked about me listening to two bands
like you and that kind of you know, meant a
lot to me to have somebody kind of with a
voice that made made me feel something with that music
and just wanting to listen to those songs over and
over again. Were there artists like that for you as
(05:06):
you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I mean so many, so so so many. You know,
I did James Brown, the Dead Milkman, even the Passies
I wore in the groups on that, you know, DC Boys,
Talking Heads, Pavement, so many many bands. There's a guy
(05:29):
named Doc Bogs. He just sang poorly and played the
band in banjo. He founded very much never sober, but
I think that might it's been how he's saying hard
to tell. I think it was from like the twenties
or thirties, but of the last century anyways.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Hey, I got a producer. His name is Matt.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He's alongside and you know, I mentioned that I was
working on trying to get Isaac Brock on the show
from Modest Mouse, and Matt's never lit up for an
opportunity to actually be a part of one of these
interviews before. So I'm gonna let Mat ask you a
question here real quick.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Good, Hi, Matt, Hey, Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
This is I don't even I can't even begin. I'm
beside myself in tongue tide right now. First off, thank you.
Your music was a companion of mine when I grew
up in the backstreets of York, Nebraska, driving around listening
to Modest Mouse as a kid. So this is amazing
and my heart is beating about two hundred beats per
a second right now. I just Ugly Casanova is a
(06:25):
favorite of mine. I wanted to know, are you still
in touch with Graham and are you going to make
more Ugly Casanova music in the future.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I made Graham up. Graham didn't exist I just didn't
have to answer any questions about the record, so I
blamed it on an imaginary character.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
All right, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, yeah, I'm either really dead with him or I'm
very much non Yeah. I decided that after I'm done
with this next record, I think I'm gonna maybe try
and do some sort of ugly Casanova.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Say, amazing, there you go, Matt. Yeah, his smile has
never and bigger, which is really funny. All right, Isaac Brock,
last question for you. We're running close up to the
top of the hour, and you've been so generous to
give us some time here today. We're excited for the
show Steelhouse. The Steelhouse is an incredible venue. I've seen
several shows there in the year and a half this
thing has been open. But you know, people who haven't
(07:19):
seen Modest Mouse, I'm sure are in for a real
treat and a unique experience. What can people expect when
they're all buying their tickets to watch you guys play
next month at the Steelhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, in this specific thing we're doing, we're doing the
Good News record front to back. But there's a catch.
The record itself is only forty five minutes long, so
after that, we're doing another different record after it, front
to back. So yeah, two records.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, and I always love those, to be honest with you,
because then you can just prep with the record and
then read discover all those deep cuts that you probably
never thought you'd ever hear. The band get to play live.
It's one of my favorite experiences with anybody. I'm gonna
be there. Youre going to see me there on November
the twelfth, seven o'clock Star Time Modest Mouse at Steelhouse.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Omaha.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Isaac Brock will be doing the lead vocals and playing
the music that he has written. And Isaac once again
on behalf of my producer, Matt. We really appreciate you
giving us some time. It's a real big thrill for
both of us to get to chat with you. You can't
wait to see on that stage next month.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I thank you very much. Have a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah you too. How about that? All right, Matt Case
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow, Yeah, that's good. That's a real treat. Really appreciate
Isaac Brock from getting there. Favorite Modest Mouse song.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh you know what, I'm just gonna have to say
the first one that ever never ending math Equation is
the song that I heard, maybe the first Modest Mouse
song that I heard, that was just this is different.
This is different. It hits me a different way, it
speaks to me a different way. I was just, you know,
a moody, sixteen year old dumb kid from York, Nebraska
cranking that for my speakers, driving around those old dusty
(08:58):
roads late at night. So I just, yeah, that one
for me. But there's so many others drama mean, uh,
Interstate eight, so many.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So for those who aren't super familiar, we played float
on And this is a thing that Modest Mouse apparently
has done on a lot of shows.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is just play albums as part of like a show.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You go there and you kind of just experience like
whole chunks of their music and not necessarily them playing
like their greatest hits, which is a different vibe than
you know a lot of other you know, big bands.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I went to self fallout Boy, right, and I like
fallout Boy, And if they were playing like from Under
the Cork Tree or Infinity on High front to back,
I would have been like so jacked out about floor seats.
I would have been like I would have been upfront,
I would have been going crazy. I went and saw
Fallout Boy and I recognized like four songs.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Wow, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Maybybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, but like
sixty percent of the stuff that they played was within
the last decade when their music changed and I just
wasn't listening to it anymore. And you're going to go
to this You're going to go to this show for
Modest Mouse, and you're going to experience the entirety of
a record and you know what to expect, you know
what to listen to to get yourself amped for it,
(10:09):
and then get to see it performed in a live settings.
That's a completely different experience. So big thanks to Isaac
Brock for that. By the way, to answer the question,
I first heard Modest Mouse in a commercial. Float On
was in a commercial. I was like, man, that's sweet
guitar riff. And then I saw the music video for
that on I think VH one. The video for float
(10:29):
On was on, which is just a crazy contraption of
just like illusionismok, almost kind of that just keeps coming,
and I was just like so enthralled by that, and
I started listening to more of their songs and I
just got hooked on him. The follow up album after that, Dashboard.
Johnny Marr of the Smiths Legend was a part of
(10:50):
the band for a bit and wrote some of the stuff.
That stuff, the Johnny Modest Mouse stuff some of my
favorite stuff from that era. So go look them up
if you haven't listened to them. It's just a really
interesting and eclectic band from an era that Matt and
I obviously mean a lot to us and anybody probably
in their thirties. Big thanks to Isaac Brock for joining
us today right here on news radio eleven ten kfab
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