The new record, Angles, from The Strokes finally hits stores on March 22nd, but a few songs are already on the web and the first video for lead single “Under Cover of Darkness” is here as well. As usual, the band tries their hardest to look effortlessly cool. Check it out: continue reading...
Six years go by and The Strokes finally explode back onto the scene. “Under Cover Of Darkness” is the perfect song to welcome the band back with multiple hooks and enough guitar parts to keep you interested for hours. The music for the new album Angles was written without vocals and Julian Casablancas added them after the fact. It definitely makes sense when you listen to this song as the instrumentation is incredibly busy, but the vocals work. Hopefully it works for the rest of the album as well. Can’t wait for this one… continue reading...
The Strokes are primed to make their long awaited comeback and to start things off they are going to offer the first single “Under Cover Of Darkness” as a free download starting tomorrow February 9th. The new album, and first in 6 years, is titled Angles and officially hits the street on March 21st. The band has described the new music as a return to “classic” sounding Strokes, which is interesting considering they’ve only released 3 albums… but they’ve leaked a brief snippet of “Under Cover Of Darkness” and the result is a tantalizing blast of music that can only be described as Strokes-y. Very excited. Check out the preview: continue reading...
The Strokes will release their 4th album Angles on March 22nd. 5 years after their last album, First Impressions Of Earth, it’s about effing time. Apparently the first single will be “Undercover of Darkness” and expect the first sounds to leak to the web pretty soon. They’re also set to co-headline day 3 of Coachella and additional tour dates can’t be far behind. Here’s an old classic to get you excited: continue reading...
This performance is right at the height of Strokes-mania, when they were the most buzzed about band on the planet and probably the most buzzed about band ever. Grunge, Alternative and Modern Rock had all lost their luster and the internet had quickly become an explosive new way to discover music and spread music. The Strokes basically capitalized on a fresh Garage Rock sound and a audience looking for something that wasn’t boy band Pop. The buzz was enormous, but luckily The Strokes had the songs to back it up. Their debut Is This It was one of the best albums of the decade and set the bar ridiculously high for everything that came after. This 2001 performance of “Last Nite” shows just how tight they were even back in the early days, and shows why the hype was justified in the first place. Now if only they could regain the heights of that first album…. continue reading...
I wonder what this means for the new Strokes record that was apparently in the works? Read more from NME.com:
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas is to release a solo album, NME.COM can exclusively reveal. continue reading...
In honor of their 10th anniversary as a band, here is a bootlegged video of a performance by The Strokes before they released their acclaimed debut, Is This It? Included are numerous unreleased tracks and goofy stage banter: continue reading...
Here’s reason #14,356 why YouTube is awesome: continue reading...
