Clues

Towards the end of last year, we mentioned that former Unicorns and Clues member Alden Penner would be releasing his first solo album following a few singles and EPs…

Alden Penner spent time in Unicorns and Clues and is now making music under his own name. A full-length is due out in 2014 but for an early taste, Penner has shared the four-song Precession EP, which floats somewhere between airy folk and grandiose baroque rock…

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here’s some of that lost material…

DOWNLOAD: The xx – Basic Space (Micachu Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Speech Debelle – Better Days (Revox) ft. Micachu and Wiley (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Micachu & The Shapes – Lips (MP3) Micachu & The Shapes @ Siren Fest 09 (more by Chris La Putt)Icelandic singer Bjork chats with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen about some of her favorite artists and spins an eclectic mix of music…

Olof Arnalds @ Prospect Park in June (more by Chris La Putt) tonight in NYC * DANCE * The Rapture @ Matchless * Blood Orange @ Bruar Falls * We Are Ivy League @ Union Hall * Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival * Son Volt, Sera Cahoone @ Irving Plaza * Aretha Franklin @ Radio City Music Hall * The Horrors, Crocodiles @ Bowery Ballroom * The Sounds, Foxy Shazam @ Roseland Ballroom * Ramona Falls, Music Video, We Are Country Mice @ Pianos * Olof Arnalds, Nadia Sirota, Emilyn Brodsky @ Union Pool * Face to Face, Pegboy, Polar Bear Club @ Gramercy Theatre * Richard Lloyd & The Sufi-Monkey Trio @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Datarock, Esser, JDH & Dave P, Karin Park @ Highline Ballroom * Fun…

DOWNLOAD: Clues – Perfect Fit (demo) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Clues – Perfect Fit (album) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Clues – Remember Severed Head (MP3) Over four years after the break up of The Unicorns, founding member of that band Alden Penner will release the debut of his new project, Clues…

ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, A.C. NEWMAN, NO AGE, GOBLIN COCK, CLUES and DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS set to headline Noise Pop 2009. Noise Pop Festival film screenings will include JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON and AGILE MOBILE HOSTILE – A YEAR WITH ANDRE WILLIAMS…

According to a member of the band, “1/2 of our band was delayed at the US border then had 3 flats in a corner of the Adirondacks where all rental agencies were closed…

DOWNLOAD: Clues – Perfect Fit (MP3) “While countless new bands have imitated the pop sounds made famous by Montreal’s music export, CLUES counts among its members originators of that sound…