Julian Casablancas has now set an official release date for his first solo record. The date: October 19. 2009. Just in time for him to make his way into slot 289 in the Top 300 Albums of The Noughties.»
Well, frontman Julian Casablancas - the mumbly singer one - is joining his bandmates Nikolai 'Nickel Eye' Fraiture and Albert 'The Organ' Hammond Jr. in releasing his own solo record. It's called Phrazes For The Young and is out this autumn on Rough Trade. Song titles include 'Glass' and 'Ludlow St.'.»
The previously mysterious musical project between Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, David Lynch and other various henchmen is now streaming on Chrysalis Music's blog. Go get it, then!»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Albert Hammond Jr - one-fifth of New Yorkers The Strokes and solo artist in his own right - has told Planet Sound that a new Strokes album must come out next year»
NME reports that Williams apparently begged Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas to produce the New Yorkers' next LP»
Converse have brought together a host of acts to celebrate their centenary»
Pharrell Williams, The Strokes and Santogold have got together to record a trainer-based eulogy for Converse.»
Wake up, everyone! The Strokes seem to be planning a new album»
Colin Lane, former photographer with the Face magazine, has given Fader magazine never seen before (silent) footage of the Strokes circa. 2001 to help celebrate its 50th issue.»
Rough Trade, the long-running indie that is currently home to The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian and the Super Furry Animals, has joined the Beggars family of labels. »
The Strokes have announced via MySpace that they are to take most of this year off, and that their currently down website, thestrokes.com, will relaunch next week...»
Albert Hammond Jr has told NME that he's keen to make a second solo record - his first, Yours To Keep, is out now via Rough Trade. It is really quite good, y'know...»
So this is a surefire way to get people clambering to buy your first solo album: tell them that some of the songs on it are, essentially, rejects...»
The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr is to release a solo album later this year...»
Perhaps you've seen the adverts for T-Mobile's series of Street Gigs - the telephone people laid on a few last year, with some degree of success. This year sees them offering customers the chance to see The Strokes, only there's nothing particularly street about the selected venue...»
Further acts have been added to the bill for this year's Oxegen Festival, held at Punchestown Racecourse on July 8th and 9th...»
This year's Wireless Festival (website) is taking shape, with headliners now announced for the event...»
The Strokes used to fear for their safety when they visited our shores, so reports Giant magazine...»
The One Earth Concert, due to be held on the 28th January at Cradiff's Millennium Stadium, has been cancelled...»
Chances are you've seen the video to The Strokes' pretty-good-actually comeback single, 'Juicebox', but what you're seeing isn't what was intended...»
Oooooh, they're back! And they're still not pretty! Well, be they ugly or otherwise in your blinkered eyes, one fact can not be ignored: The Strokes are touring, lock up your daughters. (You know mothers, the ones that stabbed the eyes out of all the pictures of Drew Barrymore in your celebrity magazines...) »
Organisers of the V Festival today announced that all it's camping tickets for Hylands Park in Chelmsford site have sold out.»
Rock allumini like 'tallica and the lips hit Oz in January for the Big Day Out touring festival.»
The Strokes look set to claim the highest new entry in the UK singles chart this Sunday, nabbing the No. 2 slot.»
Blah blah Strokes blah blah tour blah blah big venues blah blah really good
December 1 - Glasgow - Braehead Arena
December 3 - Cardiff - International Arena
December 5/6 - London - Alexandra Palace
Tickets go on sale 9am September 26.
The single, '<»
The Strokes' second opus is due out in October, according to the band... Despite their being no official press release as yet, the NY fivesome recently told Billboard that the untitled new album will be released Stateside through RCA on October 21st. This corresponds to an October 20th release in the»
The Strokes, the band that once said they wouldn't change the way they would record if they got big, have decided to record their follow up to 'Is This It' with Nigel Godrich. Yes, the producer of such bands as Radiohead and Beck is penciled in to record two songs and if all goes well »
Ah, misleading headlines, dontcha luv 'em... anyway, a wedding, a funeral and a movie with racoon dicks.. You may have heard this already, but tis IMPORTANT gossip! Yes, Drew Barrymore, she who dies in the opening of Scream 1 and recently Executive Producer of the ace Donnie Darko, is to marry Th»
The White Stripes main man Jack White will be 'hardly recognisable' in his film debut. Also planned is "to split a 45" with The Strokes. "I've got gigantic sideburns and light brown hair" Jack White mentioned to Radio 1. "And I'm dressed in the 1800's sort of garb." He is due to»
The Strokes have annouced the planned release of a new single, due to follow their festival dates this summer. The new single from the band entitled 'Someday',will be released on September 23 via Rough Trade. 'Someday' will be available on CD and seven-inch vinyl, the single »
Two months before the Carling Weekend is even due to take place, it appears that weekend tickets for Reading are close to selling out. Less than a month after the festival organisers began to announce this year's lineup, which has been hailed as a particularly strong one, featuring Foo F»
The official announcement of the line-up for this year’s Carling Weekend Festival for August 23-26 has came, well, at least for the main bands... The Strokes, last festival's most hyped band who ended up being elevated to the Main Stage, this year are set to co-headline the Main Stage in both»
All tickets for this years Glastonbury Festival are now sold out. The Festival office has confirmed all tickets are sold, that no further tickets will be on sale. Tickets will not be on sale at the gate. If you don't have a ticket but wish to see the Festival, you will be able to watch it on BBC T»
Drownedinsound have just had a news from close to the band, confirming that the Strokes have split up. The story broke in the early hours this morning as the band arrived back in america and apparently "realised it was only the singer who was ever written about". The Drummer (we don't know his name »
Here are the results of the NME Carling Awards, AKA The Brats, presented earlier today to a star studded array of pop, R'n'B, rock and general alternative personalities Many bands recieved awards as predicted, however tipped bands such as The White Stripes came away with none, as did <»
Hyped to fuck New Yorkers The Strokes have confirmed final details of a UK tour for the spring.
The shows take place in late February and March, and are the their largest UK headline performances to date.
The tour calls at:
Leeds University (February 23)
Birmingham Academy (24)
We'd been waiting for this to happen.... The Strokes have a cover band! And they've called themselves The Diff'rent Strokes (just like we knew they would) On the 3rd day of December, 2001, an EP cited as "Without doubt the greatest ever tribute record ever made" will emerge. Casio led interpretations of »
In response to the tragic events of September 11th and the subsequent actions of the US government The Beastie Boys have announced a benefit concert consisting of a number of major New York acts. Adam Yauch says this: "in the midst of this madness adam and mike and i got together to discuss what we»
Pulp's new Album 'We Love Life' is released on the 22nd October though Island and last night (28th September) they got together with about 200 music and media types and had a big party to celebrate. Thedo took place on a boat on the Thames and then at The Greenwich Observatory where the album w»
Like many other bands changing song titles, lyrics and so on, The Strokes have removed 'New York City Cops' from the US version of their album, 'Is This It?'. This is of course due to the tragedy in New York a couple of weeks ago. And that's all there is to say about that, really.»
San Fran! Announcing popscene's indie club nights:
September 20 : Charlatans UK record release party
September 27 : Spiritualized record release party
October 4: Curve record release party
October 11: Strokes record release party
October 18: New Order»
The Strokes are still refused the main stage at Reading & Leeds Carling festivals but moved to the main stage in Glasgow Despite their huge following the band will play an afternoon slot in the 8,000 capacity Evening Session tent at both Reading and Leeds. It's likely a huge»
Hugely popular US band The Strokes have finally given out news on their up coming debut album. It is to be called 'Is This It' and is to be released on September 3rd. It is a prime time for the album to be released following their successful sell out UK tour and the success of their single 'Hard T»
As previously reported on DiS, The Strokes are touring the UK. However we forgot some dates.
Since the article The Strokes have confirmed some more dates:
June
10th - Brighton, TBC
12th - Oxford, Zodiac
In addition to the previously reported headliners, the following new acts have been confirmed for this year's Carling Weekend festivals, due to take place on 24 - 26 August:
AMEN
Moldy Peaches
The Strokes
King Adora
My Vitriol
Lowgold
Mark B & Blade
Blink 1»
New York underground rock act The Strokes, are on the brink of signing a major label deal with RCA Records. Following the release of their debut single, "The Modern Age" on the Rough Trade, the band quickly became one of the most pursued American acts. Sources close to the band have said that in addition to signi»
New York's finest new band have announced their first UK dates
The five piece who combine the energy, passion, and musical
genius of the The Ramones, Television and the Velvet Underground will make their
debut apperance this side of the Atlantic supporting ... And You Will Know Us By
The T»
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