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  Watch the Darkness' Cartoonishly Excessive 'Nothin's Gonna Stop Us' Clip

  February 1, 2012 – When the going gets tough, artists hoping to capture the moment have a couple of options: feel our pain, or help us pretend that the pain doesn't exist. For the Darkness, the over-the-top hair-rockers best known for the wonderfully cheesy early 2000s excess of "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," there wasn't even a choice. "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us," the English band's first song since 2005's One Way Ticket to Hell... …
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  Alden Penner of Clues Loves 'Tao of Pooh'

  May 28, 2009 – Clues frontman Alden Penner reads a lot of books. And though he doesn't necessarily finish them all, the ex-Unicorns man says a wide variety of writing influenced the songs on Clues' self-titled debut. "[A] book I read recently was a history of the Mennonites in the Ukraine, because part of my background is Mennonite," Penner tells SPIN.com. …
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  Arcade Fire and Unicorns Form New Group

  November 4, 2008 – Devoted chroniclers of the Canadian music scene may already be hip to Clues, the musical project of Alden Penner (the Unicorns) and Brendan Reed (Arcade Fire), also featuring Montreal music scene staples Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner. But now, after building a small cult following on their instrument-packed live shows and online music store villavillanola.com, the supergroup is ready for the next step: Clues have announced …
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  Human Highway Play First-Ever Live Show

  September 16, 2008 – New York City's intimate Cake Shop isn't normally a venue for stand-up comedy, but last night's first-ever set from folksy duo Human Highway -- a.k.a., ex-Unicorns and current Islands bandleader Nick Thorburn and singer-songwriter Jim Guthrie -- could have been easily mistaken for a regular laugh-in. …
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