Given the unlikely, phenomenal success of Modest Mouse's 2004 disc "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," the story line on the new album seemed sure to focus on the long-indie band's response to ...

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Johnny Marr played to a sold-out crowd at the Eastern on Thursday evening. Marr, who rose to fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of The Smiths, has also ...

Manchester guitar god Johnny Marr, who turned 60 on Halloween, is best-known for his work in a bunch of different bands — the Smiths, obviously, but also Electronic, Modest Mouse, and a bunch of ...

Johnny Marr studiously resisted being a frontman as long as he could. He left that job to Morrissey even as he took on the mantle of sonic architect of the Smiths, and when that band imploded in 1987, ...

“The last time I was on tour with James was 1985. Can you believe that?” said Johnny Marr on stage last week in Chicago, referencing fellow U.K. hitmakers James during a headlining performance at the ...