[citation needed] After moving briefly to Los Angeles and New York City before returning to Massachusetts, the band signed with New York City-based Indie label Royalty Records (now defunct) in early 1998 and recorded tracks at Slaughterhouse Studios in Hadley, Massachusetts with Mark Alan Miller (Dinosaur Jr., Pernice Brothers) and Jon Marshall Smith (Joey Ramone, Murphy's Law), for an album to be called Retarder (after a type of sound baffling used in the studio).
[citation needed] The band later signed to TVT Records and the album was remixed at Avatar Studios by Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, Rush), who also produced two additional tracks, "Too Much Is Never Enough" and "We Like To Drink And We Like To Play Rock And Roll".
The Unband's cover version of Billy Squier's "Everybody Wants You" is featured in Scary Movie (2000), while "Geez Louise" and "Pink Slip" are in Super Troopers (2001).
[citation needed] In November 2004, Kensington Books published Michael Ruffino's memoir/tour diary Gentlemanly Repose: Confessions Of A Debauched Rock & Roller.
A full-length documentary feature about the band, Gringa Productions' We Like To Drink We Like To Play Rock 'N Roll premiered at the June 2006 Modern Drunkard Convention in Las Vegas.