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

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...

What does one hope for in a reunion show? For the band you loved to be fossilized and perfectly preserved at the time of its demise, like an ancient bug in amber for thousands of years? A perfect copy of what they were in their glory days? Or perhaps it is preferable to have a [...]

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 [...]