Rolling Stone took my headline

"Modest Marr." I swear I thought of it first, even if it took me a while to get to posting...

It's official. Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr is officially a member of Modest Mouse.

It was known for some time that Marr was lending a hand to Isaac Brock in writing and recording the follow up to Good News. Turns out that the Marr/Mouse combo became close during their stint at Mississippi's Sweet Tea studios (owned by Dennis Herring, who has also worked with Buddy Guy and Elvis Costello), and what started as "Let's write and record together," turned into, "Okay, let's tour together." Next thing they knew Marr was a Mouse.

Tour dates will be posted as they are announced.