It of course sounds easier than it actually is: just start writing beautiful, melodic songs, the primary draw of which is chord progression and cute lyric, rather than visceral texture of the music itself. I know, though, that Modest Mouse’s early stuff must be “rock,” and not “pop,” because when I couldn’t find my CD … Continue reading “Tracking the Move from Rock to Pop in East Coast’s Sebadoh and the West Coast’s Modest Mouse”