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[DID NOT ATTEND: June 5 & 6, 2026] Modest Mouse / Silver Triplets of the Rio Hondo

I continue to not go to Archer Music Hall.  I really ant to go to at least one show there.  Although recently a very loud man (with very bad breath) told me the sound there was terrible.

I’ve seen Modest Mouse a lot (eight times) and every time I think I don’t need to see them again, they do something that makes me jump back in.  Mostly I wanted to go to this show because it was at Archer. Especially since they announced a show in Philly that I got tickets for my wife and I to go to.

So, since I’d be out the night before this and I assumed I’d be going out on Sunday to see Geordie Greep, I sold these tickets.  I’m curious how much this setlist will reflect what they play in Philly.

I hadn’t even considered the Starland Ballroom show because I had tickets to two shows already that night.  And, honestly, I don’t love Starland.  For certain shows it’s a great venue.  But the last time I saw Modest Mouse there, the crowd was…icky.  So, it was never in contention anyhow.

Modest Mouse often chooses odd bands to open for them.  Although, that is how I first discovered Tropical Fuck Storm.  But the Silver Triplets of the Rio Hondo are from Portland, Oregon and make sci-fi roadhouse music & noise collage for dissociatives.   That’s not what I thought they’d sound like at all (I imagined three women singing a capella or something).  Instead, they’re three guys (in white suits I gather) who play slow Western music with trippy sound effects added in.  I’m pretty sure I’m happy I didn’t see them.

Here’s their setlists from those shows.

Starland (8 songs from the new album)

1. March Into the Sea
2. Picking Dragons’ Pockets
3. Life’s a Dream
4. Out of Gas
5. Broke
6. Dance Hall
7. Remember Yourself
8. 3rd Planet
9. Back to the Middle
10. Impossible Somedays
11. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
12. Dashboard
13. Third Side of the Moon
14. Life Like Weeds
    Encore:
15. Dogbed in Heaven / Give It a Skeleton
16. Doin’ the Cockroach
17. Float On
18. Speak ’n Spell (Or Not)
19. Absolutely Necessary Never
20. Breakthrough
21. Shit Luck

Archer Music Hall (7 songs from the new album)

1. Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine
2. Picking Dragons’ Pockets
3. Never Ending Math Equation
4. Gravity Rides Everything
5. Remember Yourself
6. Fire It Up
7. Speak ’n Spell (Or Not)
8. Fly Trapped in a Jar
9. Absolutely Necessary Never
10. Life Like Weeds
11. Dramamine
12. Life’s a Dream
13. Dashboard
14. Cowboy Dan
    Encore:
15. Dogbed in Heaven / Give It a Skeleton
16. Heart Cooks Brain
17. Ocean Breathes Salty
18. Third Side of the Moon
19. Paper Thin Walls