Modest Mouse Drummer Jeremiah Green Has Died

Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green has died.

The band confirmed in a statement on December 25th that the musician was grappling with stage IV cancer. Support flooded in, but sadly it was announced overnight that the much-loved drummer had passed away.

Jeremiah Green helped co-found Modest Mouse, working alongside school friends Isaac Brock and Eric Judy in Washington. Moving from their scratchy, left-field origins, the band would become a key player in American indie’s post-Millennial boom, releasing some hugely influential albums in the process.

Jeremiah Green’s steady yet inventive style under-pinned this. Although he missed out on Modest Mouse’ commercial apex ‘Good News For People Who Love Bad News’ – he took temporary leave from the band – the drummer is a defining figure in their ongoing success and evolution.

The band’s most recent album ‘The Golden Casket’ was released in 2021; Clash spoke to singer Isaac Brock at-length about the making of that LP, a feature you can find in our archive.

News of Jeremiah Green’s passing was confirmed overnight (January 1st). He was 45 years old.

Jeremiah Green was a force. Fuck cancer. pic.twitter.com/bmegrMrNZW

— 𝔖𝔠𝔬𝔱𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔩 (@pscottrussell) January 1, 2023

The great Jeremiah Green. My friend, bandmate, and the most creative musician I ever met. pic.twitter.com/38u5Aq0wGB

— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) January 1, 2023

jeremiah green. what can you even say? the man played a drum set like he’d been locked in a room with it since age 4 without ever hearing rock music, and then was loosed on the world as soon as he met isaac and eric. so inventive, so complementary, so fluid. what a loss.

— Patrick Lyons (@p_lyons_) January 1, 2023

Rest In Power, Jeremiah Greenhttps://t.co/r5oDpFmkaY

— Ian Cohen (@en_cohen) January 1, 2023