The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., Ernest Jasmin column: Modest Mouse roars again.(Column) From: News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) | Date: March 16, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The News Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Ernest Jasmin

Mar. 16--The Modest Mouse explosion of 2004 blindsided me like a runaway Hummer. Sure, the Issaquah-bred art-rockers had amassed a large, dedicated following on their home turf over the years. And maybe I had a vague inkling of what was to come back in 2000 as I witnessed a serpentine line wind through part of Seattle Center as fans filed into the band's performance at Bumbershoot. But I never in a million years figured that such a self-cons...