As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Is This It by The Strokes was named as the album of the decade by the NME. In fact, if you buy this week’s anniversary edition, you’ll find an essay style feature about The Strokes’ influence on music in this decade and why they’re so important. The [...]
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Today, NME released their Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade. Click the link, and you can read the original reviews of their top 10 albums. It's a good list overall, a lot of great albums along with others with which I'm not quite familiar.But I must admit, their #1 bugs me. The Strokes' debut album got the top spot, as voted upon my the NME staff, and some bigshot rockstars past and present...
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NME Magazine have released their 'Top 100 Albums of The Decade' list and The Stroke's debut LP 'Is This It' has been named number one.The Libertines' 2002 debut 'Up the Bracket' came in second, whilst Primal Scream's 'XTRMNTR' came in third.The Strokes' lead frontman Julian Casablancas said: "Does it mean it's a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I don't know, I'm such a bad judge of ...
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The new NME is out tomorrow and in it you will see its inevitable albums of the decade feature. The winning album in their poll, conducted with votes not just from their writers but other industry folk, is The Strokes‘ debut album, Is This It. It’s unsurprising, as are other entries in the top 10, [...]
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the following is one of the Strokes' earliest gigs, at Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado on October 9th, 2001. Jules uses the word "fuck" in its various forms about 267 times, and the band sounds perfect. Like most of their early gigs, they play all of the songs from Is This It in consecutive order, with the exception of "When It Started", which they play after "Is This It" ("When It Started rep...
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Okay, so I feel like this song is extremely overlooked by the general population. I know many who are familiar with The Strokes only because of the song "You Only Live Once," probably because of its memorable lyrics and catchy sound, but I really think the following lyrics have got to be some of the best. A bit of social and political commentary for ya. How SCARY! ;) At least you moggers can a...
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Okay, so I feel like this song is extremely overlooked by the general population. I know many who are familiar with The Strokes only because of the song "You Only Live Once," probably because of its memorable lyrics and catchy sound, but I really think the following lyrics have got to be some of the best. A bit of social and political commentary for ya. How SCARY! ;) At least you moggers can a...
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I've been undergoing something of a Strokes rennaisance recently, as Is This It? has, for whatever happy reason, once again become part of my regular listening habits. That album's mechanical and minimalist yet energetic, warm and breezy take on New York City arty garage pop is a great reason as to why we cared about this band in the first place. Julian Casablancas wrote excellent songs and s...
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Today, NME released their Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade. Click the link, and you can read the original reviews of their top 10 albums. It's a good list overall, a lot of great albums along with others with which I'm not quite familiar.But I must admit, their #1 bugs me. The Strokes' debut album got the top spot, as voted upon my the NME staff, and some bigshot rockstars past and present...
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As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Is This It by The Strokes was named as the album of the decade by the NME. In fact, if you buy this week’s anniversary edition, you’ll find an essay style feature about The Strokes’ influence on music in this decade and why they’re so important. The [...]
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'08 saw the Strokes taking a break form being the Strokes and trying new outfits. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti headed west and found acclaim with his new side-project Little Joy. Bassist Nikolai Fraiture decided to front his own little band called Nickel Eye. But frontman Julian Casablancas has kept a rather low profile. Casablacas did, however, branch out in a completely different way.... into co...
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Be still my joyous, beating heart! The Strokes are returning in 2009! For three weeks the information has quietly idled on the rockers Web site. Realizing the looming question in some people's minds, the band posted this:QUESTION: When are the Strokes coming back?ANSWER: The guys are set to get together and get back at it early 2009. Guitarist Al Hammond Jr, whose been out and about with arm cand
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Hip hop super-producer Pharrell Williams might produce The Strokes' next album reports, NME.Williams has already spoken with the New York band about working on their fourth record, which will be the follow-up to 2006's First Impressions Of Earth ."Julian Casablancas and I collaborated on something with Santogold (a track for shoe companyConverse) so I'm talking to him about their next record," ...
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