ModestMouse

In the last several years, an abundance of hip-hop artists have begun to sample their indie contemporaries. Perhaps it's because the hip-hop community is only so large, and its compulsively collaborative spirit could only stretch so far before it dried up the well...

Big Boi admits he's only been a fan of Modest Mouse "for a minute" in a new interview with MTV, who caught up with the 'Shutterbug' rapper after he blasted Twitter last week with the news he was in the studio with the indie rockers. "We're all musicians and producers and artists, and it's just like a big-ass brainstorm, a brain-stormin', tsunami, typhoon, tectonic-plates-movin' kind

Big Boi released his first solo album last summer and now the OutKast rapper is focusing his energies on musical collaborations with unlikely artists, such as indie rock band Modest Mouse. In a series of tweets this week, Big Boi announced that he has been recording new music with the Oregon-based group...