Under the Radar

Modest Mouse Announce New Album, Share New Song “Picking Dragon’s Pockets”

Modest Mouse have announced a new album, An Eraser and a Maze, and shared a new song from it, “Picking Dragon’s Pockets.” They’ve also announced some new tour dates. An Eraser and a Maze is due out ...
Under the Radar

Modest Mouse Share First New Song in Five Years: “Look How Far…”

Modest Mouse have shared a new song, “Look How Far…,” which is their first in five years. In it frontman Isaac Brock sums up the troubling times we’re living through, singing: “Look how far we haven’t ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Singing Mice Squeak Back and Forth—and Don’t Interrupt. Scientists Found the Brain Pathway Behind Their Impressive Songs

An illustration of an Alston’s singing mouse from the 1882 publication Biologia Centrali-Americana: Mammalia Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When it comes to conversation, the closest the animal ...
The New York Times

A Mutation Gave Humans the Gift of Speech. These Mice Have It, Too.

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found might change how we study both species. By Annie Roth In the balmy cloud ...
Science News

Singing mice puff up air sacs to make their sweet songs

Musically inclined mice inflate their throats like balloons to sing their whistling tunes. The rodential aria is produced by inflatable air sacs in the mice’s airway, researchers report May 6 in ...
GameSpot

Game Pass For PC Getting This Cat-And-Mouse City-Builder As A Day-One Release

Whiskerwood, a cat-and-mouse city-building game from Hooded Horse Minakata Dynamics, is coming to to PC Game Pass at launch on November 6. Whiskerwood has players controlling industrious mice who live ...
The Conversation

Australian farmers are battling another potential mouse plague – what is causing it?

Got a mouse in your house? That thought alone may terrify you. Now imagine if mice were scampering through your house, rummaging in your pantry or even running across your face at night. That sounds ...
IGN

Mouse: P.I. for Hire Review

I love noir. I’ll take all kinds: the hardboiled detective, the seedy crime story, neo noir, classic pulp – you name it, I’m buying. So when Mouse: P.I. for Hire sauntered onto my screen the way Ilsa ...
Pitchfork

Modest Mouse Return With First New Song in Five Years

Modest Mouse are back with their first new song since 2021. Janet Weiss, formerly of Sleater-Kinney and currently of Quasi, plays drums on “Look How Far…” Give it a listen below. Modest Mouse are set ...
Kotaku

Careful, This City-Builder Starring Cute Mice And Evil Royal Cats Might Suck Away All Your Free Time

Whiskerwood is out now on PC via early access, but for the most part it feels like a finished game City builder Indie of the Week Steam Whiskerwood It was around 1:45 in the morning, as I was laying ...
IGN

I Tested 15 Gaming Mice This Year – These 3 Stand Out, for Very Different Reasons

I've had the privilege of becoming IGN's "mice guy" in 2025, and since then I've amassed enough delivery boxes to build a small castle, covered my desk in dongles, and, most importantly, clicked new ...