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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Now, this doesn't make any sense. For all those anticipating the 7.4.7 release of Michael Bay's Transformers, you've definitely seen lead man Shia LaBeouf sporting a Strokes T-shirt in the explosion-friendly previews. So, you'd think a Strokes song would at least make the Transformers soundtrack, right? Not quite. The Strokes got gypped! Think more along the lines of a bomb-trigger happy set li...
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The Strokes are back in NYC working on their fourth studio album, "according to Rolling Stone.":http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2009/03/the-strokes-are-back-in-action.php. The band have set up shop in a midtown rehearsal space and the band's frontman Julian Casablancas says they still "have a lot of work to do" before any of us see where their little two year haitus has taken ...
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Here's where I been 2day, playing vj, slow work day, so I pave the way. Hope ya enjoy!Priestess - Run HomeNine Black Alps - Pocket Full Of StarsPearl Jam - Big WaveArctic Monkeys - Teddy PickerThe Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to MeThe Notwist - Where In This WorldThe Kills - Tape SongPram - BelugaClinic - HarvestLightspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The LostMonty Python - Galaxy Song
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New Yorkers The Strokes 2001 debut album ‘Is This It’? has been voted the number one album of the decade in a poll by British music magazine NME. The Libertines, fronted by often troubled Pete Doherty, scored a hat trick of nominations in the Top 50 and came in second with their debut [...]
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The days are long, the temps are high and the haze is settling across the shore in familiar ways reminding me of simpler days..!http://a0.vox.com/6a00c2252033db604a00c225216b588fdb-500pi!
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although this is yesterday's news, it's still freaking epic:NME has named IS THIS IT the #1 album of the decade.
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“Fab, if you were black and I was a woman, we’d have a severe case of Jungle Fever right now.” This is the type of jargon that plagues the Strokes relaunched Web site, www.thestrokes.com. Gone is the old-school eighties TV that brought you tour updates and the hottest deals in Strokes merchandise. The old TV has been revamped by an Atari-friendly video game screen, which tunes into personal
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I know most of the know rock universe is TOTALLY over the Strokes by now, but I still dig them and I have never had a chance to see them, until tonight(of course I am able to see them now that tickets are $30. Im a little bitter), so I am pretty excited. Plus its a show...sure beats staying home anyday of the week.So here I sit, just cracked open the ceremonial first beer...listening to some tu...
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...Time elapsed film always seems juxtaposed when played with tunes other than classical or maybe electronica....if you haven't seen the film Koyaanisqatsi...why don't you give it a whirl sometime...I you don't know the film I speak of, "*I wrote a piece on it here*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/33502 ...here's a bit of the film with a cut from the Strokes' Room on Fire LP slathered on ...
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MUSIC NEWS - The Strokes ' bassist, Nikolai Fraiture, recently said that the band is planning to start work on a new album in 2009. In London this week to play a solo gig, he told the BBC that the band's other commitments caused the delay in recording a follow-up to their 2006 release, 'First Impressions of Earth '. He said; "We are looking at going into the studio in February now and gett...
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