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He was in our local paper today in the arts section. He is coming to play this tuesday which I am lucky enough to be going (can't wait!). Anyway here is the article (sourced from the Courier Mail
http://www.couriermail.com.au/enter...us-by-going-solo/story-e6freqgx-1225860900843
Julian Casablancas has a stoke a genius by going solo
Sally Browne From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) May 01, 2010 10:12AM
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JULIAN Casablancas, lead singer of The Strokes, says the band's last trip to Australia in 2006 was a bit of a "blurry nightmare".
Not that it was Australia's fault. He was just going through some "strange personal stuff", and now the 31-year-old hipster and father-of-one is in a much better place.
Not only will he be back with his band of brothers to headline the Splendour in the Grass festival, held at Woodford in July, he also arrives this week for a string of dates supporting his stellar solo debut Phrazes for the Young.
"I love Australia and I'm super excited to hang out there," he says enthusiastically down the phone from Montreal. "I know it sounds so phony. But seriously, everywhere, I've got a new kind of appreciation, so it's been fun."
And Strokes fans have been gaining a new appreciation of his solo work. Phrazes for the Young, driven by the buzz of catchy lead single 11th Dimension, has been deservedly winning rave reviews for its strong, simple song-writing laden with a rich coating of '70s and '80s synth.
The title of the new album is a reference to an Oscar Wilde book – and it's one Casablancas saved up from the Strokes' last record.
"I stumbled upon the book – I was on the last page and it just kind of grabbed me," he says. "I just kind of stuck with it. Somehow it became one of the names in the running for the last Strokes record, First Impressions of Earth."
But as the band's key songwriter, Casablancas didn't feel that lyrically the Strokes' record was up to the task of carrying such a weighty title.
So for his solo record, he made a concerted effort to get the lyrics up to scratch.
"Not that they are," he says modestly. "But at least it made me try really hard.
"I think I concentrated on music so long that lyrics were kind of secondary. I knew how to make things kind of cool and not annoying and work with the song, and mysterious and deep or whatever, but I feel like once I felt confident musically, now I've got to focus on lyrics."
Chatting to Casablancas is a pleasure. His conversation is peppered with words like "rad" and "dude", although he's equally happy talking about old dead poets. He swings from being softly spoken to sing-song loud, as if an amusing accent might make his words more interesting, and he attentively goes off topic, asking this interviewer as many questions as she asks him.
"My favourite poet is Rumi," he throws out there, referring to the 13th century Sufi poet.
"I read a lot of that; try to make lyrics like that because he was also a musician. Also Lou Reed."
Casablancas recalls a time when he and the rest of the young, then unsigned Strokes were in a bar in New York when they heard that the great Velvet Underground singer was signing books at a store across the street.
The band pooled their money together and bought a copy of Reed's book, which the legendary rocker signed to "The Strokes".
As fate would have it, the two singers shared a stage years later singing Walk on the Wild Side for a Rolling Stone magazine anniversary event.
"I was at sound check and he walked in saying, 'You do a pretty good imitation, you don't even need me, why am I here?' " Casablancas recalls. "We played with Eddie Vedder too that night. It was pretty crazy!" he warbles.
Casablancas, the son of a former Miss Denmark and the founder of Elite Model Management, was educated at a private school, along with the rest of the Strokes alumni. But he reckons he's only ever read two books. They just happen to be The Odyssey and Crime and Punishment.
He's now tackling Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, set in the time of the Buddha, and the Bible.
Not exactly easy tour reading. No wonder he generally prefers to "play cards or watch a movie".
Wherever his past highs and lows with The Strokes might have taken him, Casablancas seems in a good place now.
His wife, Juliet Joslin, gave birth late last year. Has it changed him?
"Yeah, I got a new haircut, moved to the suburbs," he jokes. "Change for the great – because obviously a magical little man has arrived. And I'm torn; part of me wants him to stay little and part of me wants to hang out and talk to him and can't wait till he's older."
He married the Strokes' former assistant manager in 2005.
Is the lyric, "How could you be so perfect for me?" from Out of the Blue about her?
"Sure," he says after a long pause. "I've got to walk a fine line when I talk about these things.
"I don't want to lame it up. I actually sometimes make songs just for my woman, I just feel like I don't know about doing it publicly. I could be wrong. Sometimes people do it and it makes me want to puke. That's a harsh way to put it."
As ever, he's one of the politest rockers around.
Phrazes for the Young is out now. Julian Casablancas performs at the Tivoli on Thursday.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/enter...us-by-going-solo/story-e6freqgx-1225860900843
Julian Casablancas has a stoke a genius by going solo
Sally Browne From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) May 01, 2010 10:12AM
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JULIAN Casablancas, lead singer of The Strokes, says the band's last trip to Australia in 2006 was a bit of a "blurry nightmare".
Not that it was Australia's fault. He was just going through some "strange personal stuff", and now the 31-year-old hipster and father-of-one is in a much better place.
Not only will he be back with his band of brothers to headline the Splendour in the Grass festival, held at Woodford in July, he also arrives this week for a string of dates supporting his stellar solo debut Phrazes for the Young.
"I love Australia and I'm super excited to hang out there," he says enthusiastically down the phone from Montreal. "I know it sounds so phony. But seriously, everywhere, I've got a new kind of appreciation, so it's been fun."
And Strokes fans have been gaining a new appreciation of his solo work. Phrazes for the Young, driven by the buzz of catchy lead single 11th Dimension, has been deservedly winning rave reviews for its strong, simple song-writing laden with a rich coating of '70s and '80s synth.
The title of the new album is a reference to an Oscar Wilde book – and it's one Casablancas saved up from the Strokes' last record.
"I stumbled upon the book – I was on the last page and it just kind of grabbed me," he says. "I just kind of stuck with it. Somehow it became one of the names in the running for the last Strokes record, First Impressions of Earth."
But as the band's key songwriter, Casablancas didn't feel that lyrically the Strokes' record was up to the task of carrying such a weighty title.
So for his solo record, he made a concerted effort to get the lyrics up to scratch.
"Not that they are," he says modestly. "But at least it made me try really hard.
"I think I concentrated on music so long that lyrics were kind of secondary. I knew how to make things kind of cool and not annoying and work with the song, and mysterious and deep or whatever, but I feel like once I felt confident musically, now I've got to focus on lyrics."
Chatting to Casablancas is a pleasure. His conversation is peppered with words like "rad" and "dude", although he's equally happy talking about old dead poets. He swings from being softly spoken to sing-song loud, as if an amusing accent might make his words more interesting, and he attentively goes off topic, asking this interviewer as many questions as she asks him.
"My favourite poet is Rumi," he throws out there, referring to the 13th century Sufi poet.
"I read a lot of that; try to make lyrics like that because he was also a musician. Also Lou Reed."
Casablancas recalls a time when he and the rest of the young, then unsigned Strokes were in a bar in New York when they heard that the great Velvet Underground singer was signing books at a store across the street.
The band pooled their money together and bought a copy of Reed's book, which the legendary rocker signed to "The Strokes".
As fate would have it, the two singers shared a stage years later singing Walk on the Wild Side for a Rolling Stone magazine anniversary event.
"I was at sound check and he walked in saying, 'You do a pretty good imitation, you don't even need me, why am I here?' " Casablancas recalls. "We played with Eddie Vedder too that night. It was pretty crazy!" he warbles.
Casablancas, the son of a former Miss Denmark and the founder of Elite Model Management, was educated at a private school, along with the rest of the Strokes alumni. But he reckons he's only ever read two books. They just happen to be The Odyssey and Crime and Punishment.
He's now tackling Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, set in the time of the Buddha, and the Bible.
Not exactly easy tour reading. No wonder he generally prefers to "play cards or watch a movie".
Wherever his past highs and lows with The Strokes might have taken him, Casablancas seems in a good place now.
His wife, Juliet Joslin, gave birth late last year. Has it changed him?
"Yeah, I got a new haircut, moved to the suburbs," he jokes. "Change for the great – because obviously a magical little man has arrived. And I'm torn; part of me wants him to stay little and part of me wants to hang out and talk to him and can't wait till he's older."
He married the Strokes' former assistant manager in 2005.
Is the lyric, "How could you be so perfect for me?" from Out of the Blue about her?
"Sure," he says after a long pause. "I've got to walk a fine line when I talk about these things.
"I don't want to lame it up. I actually sometimes make songs just for my woman, I just feel like I don't know about doing it publicly. I could be wrong. Sometimes people do it and it makes me want to puke. That's a harsh way to put it."
As ever, he's one of the politest rockers around.
Phrazes for the Young is out now. Julian Casablancas performs at the Tivoli on Thursday.
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He's in this week's Rolling Stone.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULES 
Hells yes!
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I love his collaborations, and Digitalism is rad, so I can't wait to hear this. Though it will be hard to top my favorite collaboration of his -- "Little Girl" with Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse on the brilliant Dark Night of the Soul album.
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^And voilà.
'Rave On', a Buddy Holly cover song that The Strokes' singer Julian Casablancas has recorded for a new tribute album to the 1950s icon is now available online.
The frontman has recorded the track for a new compilation, which is titled 'Rave On Buddy Holly' and will be released on June 28 in the US.
Florence & The Machine, Cee Lo Green, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith and Fiona Apple have also contributed tracks to the compilation.
Buddy Holly died at the age of 22 in a 1959 plane crash.
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'Rave On', a Buddy Holly cover song that The Strokes' singer Julian Casablancas has recorded for a new tribute album to the 1950s icon is now available online.
The frontman has recorded the track for a new compilation, which is titled 'Rave On Buddy Holly' and will be released on June 28 in the US.
Florence & The Machine, Cee Lo Green, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith and Fiona Apple have also contributed tracks to the compilation.
Buddy Holly died at the age of 22 in a 1959 plane crash.
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uncut.co.uk
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The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has filmed an advert for French perfume Azarro.
The commericial, which features a close up of Casablancas singing to camera, before he jumps into a rabid crowd, is currently being shown on French television to showcase Azarro's product.
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The commericial, which features a close up of Casablancas singing to camera, before he jumps into a rabid crowd, is currently being shown on French television to showcase Azarro's product.
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Oh Julian, a hipster who refuses to grow up is a sad site to behold. 
