Islands

Islands Announce Canadian Tour

PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2012

With their new album A Sleep & A Forgetting set to drop next month, Nick Diamond's tropical pop endeavour Islands are getting closer to bei...

Islands

"This Is Not a Song" (video)

PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2011

Songwriter Nick Diamond previously promised that A Sleep & A Forgetting, his latest album with Islands, would be a deeply personal song cyc...

Islands

"This Is Not a Song"

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2011

Despite their ever-changing lineup, indie popsters Islands are slated to release a new album early in 2012. Frontman Nick Thorburn wrote th...

Islands Unveil 'A Sleep & A Forgetting'

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2011

Late last week, a press release for an Islands show in New York sneakily slipped in the fact that Nick Thorburn and co. had just "recently...

Islands to Release New Album in Early 2012

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2011

In 2011, songwriter Nick "Diamonds" Thorburn has released an album with his band Mister Heavenly and dropped a solo collection online. Next...

Islands' Nick Thorburn Teams Up with Man Man Front-Man for New Project

PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2010

With Islands' recent Vapours full-length out of the way, front-man Nick Thorburn has announced that he's planning a new side-project. The g...

Islands

Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver, BC October 20

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2009

Islands latest release, Vapours, is a back-to-basics electro pop album, free of the proggy bombast that plagued 2007's Arm's Way. During th...

Islands in the Slipstream

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

Even as Nick "Diamonds" Thorburn sits idly by, listening to his band-mates in Islands discuss their excellent electro-rock record Vapours,...