Nick Thorburn
Islands announce new album & tour, release "Life's A Joke"
‘And That’s Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs’ is due August 25.
Islands' Nick Thorburn says he accidentally copied a Julie Byrne song
”I’ll be going to songwriter jail for a bit and when I get out, I will make sure to learn from the failings of my Swiss-cheese brain,” he said.
Islands' Nick Thorburn tells us about the inspirations behind new album 'Islomania'
Nick Thorburn’s list of influences for Islands‘ new album include Sparks, Ratatat, Fat Tony, Depeche Mode and more. ‘Islomania‘ is out today.
Islands announce new album, share "(We Like To) Do It With The Lights On"
Canadian indie vets Islands are back with Islomania, which is their first album in five years and will be out June…
mems of American Football, Pedro The Lion & 40+ other Polyvinyl musicians form one-off bands for new comp
‘Exquisite Corpse’ features one-of-a-kind collaborations featuring 47 members of the Polyvinyl family, including members of American Football, Rainer Maria, Pedro the Lion, The Get Up Kids, Beach Slang, Vivian Girls, Xiu Xiu, SSLYBY, and more.
Tom Scharpling's 'Grown-Ups 3' script being read in NYC & L.A.
Guests at the readings include Andy Daly, Kevin Corrigan, Chris Gethard, Connor Ratliff, Jake Fogelnest, Nick Thorburn, Lance Bangs, and Allison Crutchfield & Mike Krol.
Mister Heavenly are back, releasing new LP & touring (listen to "Beat Down")
Remember Mister Heavenly, the supergroup of Honus Honus (Man Man), Nick Diamonds (The Unicorns, Islands), and drummer Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, The Shins), that sometimes also included Michael Cera? Well, they’re back!
Serial podcast music written by dude from the Unicorns (listen)
This may be old news to you, especially if you’re a Serial podcast-listening, indie rock expert who paid attention to the credits for the past 3+ months and heard Nick Thorburn‘s name and immediately recognized it as that guy also known as Nick Diamonds from Islands and the recently reunited Unicorns…
Vice is throwing a huge party in Brooklyn tonight (Nick Zinner posted the insane lineup)
Earlier this week we started to hear rumblings of a super secret, giant Vice party taking place Friday night (tonight, 12/5) somewhere in Brooklyn…
Nick Thorburn says Unicorns reunion "is just talk"
Earlier today we posted that Alden Penner of The Unicorns said a reunion is being discussed, but since then, his ex-bandmate Nick Thorburn (also of Islands) told SPIN it’s all talk:Don’t get your hopes up…
