Modest Mouse are launching a Reverb store.
Reverb, the largest online marketplace dedicated to music gear, today announced that Modest Mouse will be selling a huge selection of synths, mics, pedals, amps, and more through The Official Modest Mouse Reverb Shop. The Official Modest Mouse Reverb Shop will open on Thursday, September 5, featuring stage- and studio-used music gear, vintage merch, and even a piece of Elvis history. Modest Mouse—who this year reissued Good News for People Who Love Bad News for the album’s 20th anniversary and just announced a fall tour commemorating the album—will be parting with more than five hundred items on Reverb. Among those are four Circuit Bent Speak and Spells, including one used on “Wooden Soldiers” from the 2021 album The Golden Casket. Of the Speak and Spells, Isaac Brock said, “We played them a lot. They’re incredible and you can make really cool sounds with them. But they’re for a certain type of music-making…I just think someone else can do better shit with these than I can.” Perhaps one of the most interesting items that will be available in the Official Modest Mouse Reverb Shop shop is a set of three connected stadium chairs that, according to Brock, were in the Shreveport Fairgrounds during the 1956 Elvis performance where the term “Elvis has left the building” was first used. The band’s Reverb shop will also include a variety of synthesizers, including a Moog Sub 37 synthesizer that Brock says was used in the studio and on tour for the 2015 album Strangers to Ourselves as well as on 2021’s “Fuck Your Acid Trip.” According to Brock, he’s simply amassed too many items over time and the options are becoming paralyzing, so it’s time to clear out a portion of his collection—including many items he loves. “I would go down to the music store and I would just buy anything that looked interesting to me. [I’d tell myself] that I could just take it back or resell it, but then I wouldn’t do that. I’d kind of panic that if I didn’t have a whole bunch of new gadgets and tools to work with, I was going to make the same songs,” Brock said. “But now it’s getting to the point that my studio is a maze of shelves of shit and option fatigue is starting to set in, so I want less music gear.” Among the other items that will be for sale in The Official Modest Mouse Reverb Shop on September 5 are: A mammoth 150-watt Soursound Audio Custom Amp head, complete with its road case. Three gold Telefunken M80 microphones that have been used on Modest Mouse tours. A selection of synths, like an Arp Odyssey, a Minimoog Voyager XL, a Dave Smith Prophet 12, a Roger Linn Linnstrument, and more. A massive selection of effects pedals, ranging from affordable finds to rare pedals and limited, boutique items. An array of posters dating back to 2001, signs, and more. Modest Mouse first sold music gear through The Official Modest Mouse Reverb Shop in 2022. They join a host of other bands ranging from Wilco to Nancy Wilson of Heart who have partnered with Reverb to get their music gear into the hands of fans.