Modest Mouse leader Isaac Brock has been busy creating several new tracks under his solo moniker Ugly Casanova for the upcoming feature film 180° South, a film about adventurers from Patagonia. Tuesday night was the premier of the movie in Santa Monica and Isaac was there playing an acoustic set which consisted of mostly Modest Mouse songs, but also featured one of the new tracks called “Here’s To Now.”

The 5 song set was:

01 Broke
02 Blame It On The Tetons
03 Spitting Venom
04 This Devil’s Workday
05 Here’s To Now

Watch the video of Isaac performing “Here’s To Now” below.

There are videos of the whole performance which have kindly been uploaded by youtube user secretbootlegs, check them out on their youtube page.

The 180° South soundtrack is due out on June 22nd through Brushfire Records. The full tracklist is:

01. Ugly Casanova – “Mountains of Storms”
02. Ugly Casanova – “Here’s to Now”
03. Mason Jennings – “Machines”
04. James Mercer – “Doug’s Theme”
05. Ugly Casanova – “Wave Goodbye”
06. Ugly Casanova – “Lonesome Blues”
07. James Mercer – “Journey Through the Past”
08. Ugly Casanova – “Hotcha Girls”
09. Jack Johnson – “Spring Wind”
10. Ugly Casanova – “Maybe We’re Lost”
11. Ugly Casanova – “Corcovado”
12. Love as Laughter – “Coconut Flakes”
13. Ugly Casanova – “The Geezer”
14. Ugly Casanova – “Lay Me Down”

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A new documentary called 180° South about adventurers from Patagonia, a region in the very south of South America, is to have a soundtrack featuring several artists contributing original songs, including Isaac Brock and James Mercer.

Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock takes up the name Ugly Casanova once more; the moniker used for his previous solo recordings, and is contributing the majority of the soundtrack with nine songs, eight of which are new (“Hotcha Girls” appeared on the 2001 album Sharpen Your Teeth). Lead-singer of The Shins, James Mercer, contributes two songs, one of which is a cover of Neil Young’s “Journey Through The Past.”

The other contributors are Mason Jennings, Love As Laughter and Jack Johnson, and the soundtrack is being released through Johnson’s record label Brushfire on June 22nd.

You can see a full tracklist below folllowed by the trailer for the movie.

01. Ugly Casanova – “Mountains of Storms”
02. Ugly Casanova – “Here’s to Now”
03. Mason Jennings – “Machines”
04. James Mercer – “Doug’s Theme”
05. Ugly Casanova – “Wave Goodbye”
06. Ugly Casanova – “Lonesome Blues”
07. James Mercer – “Journey Through the Past”
08. Ugly Casanova – “Hotcha Girls”
09. Jack Johnson – “Spring Wind”
10. Ugly Casanova – “Maybe We’re Lost”
11. Ugly Casanova – “Corcovado”
12. Love as Laughter – “Coconut Flakes”
13. Ugly Casanova – “The Geezer”
14. Ugly Casanova – “Lay Me Down”

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Track list:

LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocuous! (Sound Of Silver)
Interpol – Evil (Antics)
Beyonce – Single Ladies (I Am… Sasha Fierce)
Spoon – I Summon You (Gimme Fiction)
The Antlers – Two (Hospice)
Peter & Gordon – Sunday For Tea
Dntel – (This Is) The Dream Of Chan and Evan [ft. Ben Gibbard] (Life Is Full Of Possibilities)
Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 (XO)
Free – All Right Now (Fire And Water)
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons – Beggin’
We Are Scientists – It’s A Hit (With Love & Squalor)
Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
Local Natives – Airplanes (Gorilla Manor)
Julie London – Cry Me A River
Bright Eyes – Old Soul Song (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds (The Moon & Antarctica)

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Artist – Song (Album)

Modest Mouse – Dramamine (This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About)
Ray Charles & Betty Carter – It’s Cold Outside
The Wombats – Dr. Suzanne Maddox PhD (A Guide To Love, Loss and Desperation)
Los Campesinos! – The Sea Is A Good Place To Think About The Future (Romance Is Boring)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cold Light (Fever To Tell)
Nat King Cole – Orange Colored Sky
Portishead – Chase The Tear (Amnesty International Single)
Gang Gang Dance – Vacuum (Saint Dymphna)
Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (Endless Flight)
Pantha Du Prince – Satellite Snyper (Black Noise)
Animal Collective – Winter Wonder Land (Strawberry Jam)
Chicago – If You Leave Me Now (Chicago X)
Flight Of The Conchords – Too Many Dicks (On The Dancefloor) (I Told You I Was Freaky)
Spoon – Out Go The Lights (Transference)

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As with “Autumn Beds”, it’s B-Side “The Whale Song” is now streaming over at The Trip Wire. For those of you, like me, who saw this song live in 2008, or earlier this year, it can only be improved in the studio, and it was. The whale-like guitar is still there, and the song is easily the most menacing thing they’ve released since The Moon and Antarctica. Honestly, it should’ve been the A-Side here, but that’s a whole different argument.

“Autumn Beds” b/w “The Whale Song is out June 23rd. You can get it here or on iTunes, if you haven’t experienced the revival. Modest Mouse fall tour dates and “The Whale Song” after the jump.
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MoMo are releasing another 7″, similar to the Record Day 7″ single with “Satellite Skin” and “Guilty Cocker Spaniels”. This time around the 7″ will feature “Autumn Beds” on the A-side and “Whale Song” on the B-side. You can stream the track below or order the single here.

Stream: Modest Mouse – “Autumn Beds”

An EP titled No One’s First and You’re Next is slated for an August release, and will be comprised of all of these single releases. Apparently these are all unreleased tracks from the recording sessions of Good News for People Who Love Bad News and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

Modest Mouse played The Late Show with David Letterman last night, hot off their Spring tour without Johnny Marr. The band, who is releasing a 7″ single for Record Store Day (April 18th) went on to Letterman to promote new single “Satellite Skin”, which is backed by “Guilty Cocker Spaniels”. This is the first of four 7″ singles which will lead up to a new EP (to be released in early August) entitled No One’s Next and You’re First.

Video of “Satellite Skin” from Letterman and “Guilty Cocker Spaniels” from Los Angeles on February 24th after the jump.

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