The video for Modest Mouse King Rat directed by Heath Ledger is exclusively on Myspace today: Watch Here.

Download your copy of Autumn Beds for only 50 from 7 Digital.

R.E.M., Modest Mouse, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Jarvis Cocker, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists whose handmade signs featured in Under the Radar's Protest Issue will be auctioned off beginning September 30th to benefit War Child International.

Earlier this summer, Under the Radar magazine published its Protest Issue, which featured an array of musicians sharing their thoughts on today's political climate. Along with interviews, Under the Radar conducted photo shoots with those artists, each holding protest signs of their own making. Beginning September 30th, Under the Radar will host a 7-day eBay auction of the protest signs featured in the issue. All proceeds will go to benefit War Child International. (www.warchild.us), a nonprofit that helps children in areas of conflict across the globe. This auction provides individuals with an opportunity to purchase a one-of-a-kind piece of art while also contributing to a worthwhile cause.

Musicians whose art will be featured in the auction include The Protest Issue's cover stars R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, and Spoon's Britt Daniel, as well as Billy Bragg, British Sea Power, Built to Spill, Jarvis Cocker, Death Cab for Cutie, The Dresden Dolls, The Duke Spirit, Elbow, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, Fleet Foxes, Foals, Michael Franti, Sharon Jones, Talib Kweli, Jamie Lidell, Metric, Moby, My Morning Jacket, Neon Neon, Noah and the Whale, OK Go, Peter Bjorn and John's Peter Moren, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Rilo Kiley, Rogue Wave, Shout Out Louds, Stars, St Vincent, Supergrass, and more.

Under the Radar is published by husband and wife Mark and Wendy Redfern and is distributed across North America.

The first new single bundle from Modest Mouse, containing Satellite Skin and Guilty Cocker Spaniels, is available to download NOW from iTunes, 7 Digital, and all good download servies.

Autumn Beds/Whale Song will be available to download from July 6th.

All singles will be available on the EP 'No One's First and You're Next' available on August 17th.

Modest Mouse are running a competition with Apple to make the video for the track Missed The Boat, with a Sony HD video camera, iMac and video iPod all up for grabs.

A performance of the track has been shot on green screen, from mulitple camera angles. You can download all of the parts, and find more details on how to submit your entry, at modestmousemusic.com/video. Entries have to be submitted by May 22nd, and the winning entry will become the official video for the single, worldwide.

You can watch the excellent video for Dashboard, the first single which came from the band's recent US no1 album We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, here.

Modest Mouse's new album We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank has gone straight in to the charts at #1 in the US, which is pretty amazing.

The record is already available to download in the UK, from here , and is released on CD next week (April 2nd). You can pre-order your copy here.

You can see the video to Dashboard in the embeddable Modest Mouse player, which you can grab code for here.

Before The Ship Even Sank is currently Nihal's album of the week, whilst he is covering for Colin Murray on Radio 1.

Presumably this means he'll be playing tracks from it; tune in between 10pm and midnight every day up to Thursday to find out...

The album is released on April 2nd, and you can pre-order it from here.

Dashboard, the first track from the new Modest Mouse album, has been added into the MM embeddable mediaplayer, so you can now have it on your MySpace page/ blog/ zine/ whatever.

To get your unique embed code for the player, go here. The player also includes the video for Float On, and audio from half a dozen other tracks from previous records.

The new album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, is due out on April 2nd, although it will be available digitally from March 19th.

Dashboard comes out on March 26th.

The wait is over! Check out the official version of Dashboard from the forthcoming record, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank set for release early this year with a full World tour to follow.

Click below to hear Dashboard up now on the site and also on their Myspace page:
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