Penner and Cera will promote the 'Canada in Space' EP with a tour in June

The Unicorns recently reunited to play some shows — their first in a decade — opening for Arcade Fire, and as we reported, those performances have been incredible. Timed with this is a reissue of their sole album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone, which comes with a handful of bonus tracks. We’ve [...]

How old were you when the Unicorns broke up? It was ten years ago, so it would be your age minus ten. Oh my god. Were you even born yet? If you’re taking your age and subtracting ten and getting a number below zero, it’s unlikely that you were even alive during the period of [...]

As the Reflektor Tour continues to snake around North America, Arcade Fire have been paying tribute to bands from the cities in which they’re playing. At the Forum in L.A. on Friday night (following the Unicorns reunion!) they took on Jane’s Addiction and Guns N’ Roses. Last night’s second show at the venu...

Arcade Fire have been so big for so long that it’s easy to forget they emerged from the Montreal underground scene as long-dormant indie-pop quirk-masters the Unicorns, whose Nick Thorburn later went on to form the long-running Islands. In fact, as Thorburn points out in a new interview, the Unicorns actually took Arcade Fire on [...]