Unicorns

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...

Alden Penner & Nick Diamonds of The Unicorns in 2014 (via Unicorns Twitter) The Unicorns have been talking about a reunion but still nothing solidified as the bands' members continued to tour with their other projects...

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...

DOWNLOAD: Peelander-Z - "Ride on the Shooting Star" (MP3) Peelander-Z at Knitting Factory in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)"Action Comic Punk Band" Peelander-Z can now amend that description of its sound to "Action Comic Metal Band...

Islands at Culture Shock 2012 (more by Kellyann Petry) Islands will be heading to Europe for a tour this fall, but before that they'll stop in NYC for a show at Littlefield on September 14...

DOWNLOAD: Clues - Perfect Fit (demo) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Clues - Perfect Fit (album) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Clues - Remember Severed Head (MP3) And it really kind of depends on the forthrightness in which I feel like giving a literal kind of account of everything...

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...

Islands @ NY Mag Highbrow BBQ (more by Chris La Putt) Islands have three shows coming up this week. The second is at Market Hotel in Brooklyn on Saturday (11/8) and the third is at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin (less than 24 hours later) on Sunday afternoon (for which we're currently running a free ticket contest)...

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...

DOWNLOAD: Clues - Perfect Fit (MP3) The Unicorns have attained a mystique since their break-up in 2005. Since that time, Nick Thorburn, has been anything but low key, launching Islands, Th' Cornn Gang Human Highway with Jim Guthrie, and even Juiced Elfers...