Julian Casablancas

[*ana*]

GQ Interview!
http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2009/10/interview-julian-casablancas.html

Does anyone know which brand are his sunglasses? I can't make it out..

i have no idea, but that is one great picture

 

[*ana*]

so somebody made the first attempt to write river of brakelights...
some parts are clearly wrong, some i'm not sure, and some neither the person nor i understood...

We might be here for a late night [we might be in for a late night]
Stuck in a lava flow of brakelights
I can hear a rattling bass drum
Driving back to where it came from

Sit back on
I shop therefore I am the cause
Protect me from what I was

Getting the hang of it, getting the hang of it
Getting the hang of it, getting the hang of it
Getting the hang of it, getting the hang of it
Getting the hang of it, getting the hang of it
Timing is everything, timing is everything
Timing is everything, timing is everything
Timing is everything, timing is everything

I match your feat where ... is me [i'm at your feet ...]
We'll sho me a super night crossing roads or highways [what does that mean?]
In the afterlife of supercities, gravity devours ... right beneath [gravily devours, no? and i didn't hear him saying "right beneath"]

No bad time for kids who hate sports [doesn't sound like "time" to me]
Mothers crying at the airport
Finding the dreams you left behind to do
Waving goodbye your young heart cries for you

Sit back on
You're finding it out together, ...
We were born waiting alive [waiting alive or in line?]
Grabbing the future by the eyes

Getting the hang of it, getting the hang of it
Timing is everything, timing is everything
Getting the hang of it, timing is everything
Getting the hang of it, timing is everything
Timing the hang of it, getting is everything
Getting the time of it, everything hangs on this
Hanging the getting of, timing the getting of

Our bodies they die like yours degrade [doesn't sound like degrade to me, but i'm a bad listener]
We fuel and recharge the ...
My .. myself, ... homeward bound
Where did you go, you were my ride home
Is that what we want?
Is everything shot?
Is that what you ask for?
'Cause that's what we got

Life is destined
Life is destined

(from songlyrics.com)

 

[HeatherAnne]

Spin interview, it's a great read:

http://community.livejournal.com/oh_someday/258395.html

 

[ckgirlbr]

Great read, indeed. Am I the only one who's concerned about Strokes album?

 

[Marie_Carmelle]

Great read, indeed. Am I the only one who's concerned about Strokes album?

Don't worry! They haven't broken up! They will release an album in spring 2010!

 

[ckgirlbr]

Thanks! It's because I read some rumours they've been fighting a lot lately... But I hope tha's just a phase (it's got to pass, I was a train moving too fast ). I hope the new album will really come out in March or April as Julian said

 

[konst]

i have a question: is it allowed to put the link of the cd of jules?
cause i have the link to downloaded for free
can i do that?
well anyways if is not,anyone can mp me

 

[konst]

http://rapidshare.com/files/297436105/C4S4BL4C4S-ZOO9.rar

Password:
http://discotheke-reloaded.blogspot.com


HOPE IT WORKS.

ps: if this is deleted well..whatever. just mp me

 

[konst]

ahahah it was deleted :/ sorry gurls/boys

 

[HeatherAnne]

I'm glad it was delted, I hate leaks but they are also so tempting, gotta support the artists though!

 

[ckgirlbr]

Some news!

The Strokes' Julian Casablancas announces solo European tour
Singer to play four UK and Ireland dates on gig run – ticket details

The Strokes' Julian Casablancas has announced details of his first European solo tour – which includes four UK and Ireland dates – NME.COM can exclusively announce.

The frontman will play gigs in Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and London as part of the gig run, which kicks off in Copenhagen on November 30.

He is set to release his first solo album, 'Phrazes For The Young', on November 2.

Tickets for the UK and Ireland shows go on sale at 9am (GMT) on Friday (October 30).

Julian Casablancas will play:

Copenhagen Vega (November 30
Stockholm Gota Kallare (December 1)
Berlin Maria Am Ostbahnof (3)
Amsterdam Paradiso (5)
Paris Le Bataclan (8)
Manchester Ritz (11)
Glasgow ABC (12)
Dublin Academy (14)
London Forum (16)

To check the availability of Julian Casablancas tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

[nme.com]

 

[ckgirlbr]

Album review: Julian Casablancas - 'Phrazes For The Young'
It may be a little short, but it's oh so sweet

"Somewhere along the way, my hopefulness turned to sadness/ Somewhere along the way, my sadness turned to bitterness…”
Suffice to say, the first two lines that slur out of the speakers after pressing ‘play’ on ‘Phrazes For The Young’ will be instant red flags to any Strokes fan combing Julian Casablancas’ solo debut for portents of doom. As the verse progresses, his bitterness then leads to anger, his anger inextricably to vengeance and his vengeance – oddly enough – to an unabashedly euphoric, Paul Simon-esque mardi-gras gallop of a chorus that, like a lot of things about this album, you’ll never see coming.

After four troubling years of collective inactivity, individual Strokes have all of a sudden been going rogue left, right and centre: Fab Moretti and Nikolai Fraiture are both off working on their respective side-projects Little Joy and Nickel Eye, while Albert Hammond, Jr.’s solo albums have found him a niche as a sort of lo-fi Albert Hammond Sr.

Casablancas, on the other hand, seemed content to lay low, occasionally lending vocals to one-off collaborations with and Danger Mouse, and offering frustratingly ambiguous Strokes album updates such as, “We’re pretty much ready to go, but at the same time we don’t want to rush anything.” And then, somewhere along the way, ‘Phrazes For The Young’ was born, complicating matters further still.

Recorded under the radar with producer Jason Lader and Bright Eyes collaborator Mike Mogis, it’s a strange little album, just eight songs long but deceptively dense with ideas. Certain parts of it are unmistakably the work of the man who wrote ‘Is This It’, certain others you’d swear were anything but, and one part in particular – the inspired ‘Ludlow St’ – is a bawdy, boozy waltz through the Lower East Side locale that’s quite simply stark raving. ?

After aforementioned opener ‘Out Of The Blue’ establishes that all bets are off with a joyous shrug of the shoulders and Casablancas’ cathartic proclamation that “Yes, I know I’m going to hell in a leather jacket/But at least I’ll be in another world while you’re pissing on my casket”, things take a darker turn on ‘River Of Brake Lights’. Sharing the ominous, industrial vibe of ‘Reptilia’, its latticed web of interweaving guitars mark it out as the most obviously Strokesy song on here, though it still takes a few listens to draw you in.?

These are the songs Casablancas apparently felt wouldn’t work for The Strokes, although on ‘4 Chords Of The Apocalypse’ he does seem to take the smoky, ’60s-soul aesthetic he briefly explored on 2003’s ‘Under Control’ and runs with it, piling on drama and bombastic production where before there would have been rough-hewn garage-rock minimalism.
The halogenic synth-pop swagger he employs on ‘11th Dimension’ and ‘Left And Right In The Dark’, meanwhile, sugar-coats some interesting lyrical themes. The former’s pragmatic, post-Obama take on America (“Where cities come to hate each other in the name of sport” and “Your faith has got to be greater than your fear”) in particular feels cheekily subversive, but best by far is ‘Ludlow St’. Not only does it take the Native American history of New York and turn it into a metaphor for the area’s yuppie invasion, it’s delivered
in the form of a drunken country and western croon. And as a love song to the Lower East Side, it even manages to be quite touching.

Events do feel rather abruptly curtailed by the fade of ‘Tourist’’s minor-key march, and you’re left wishing that Casablancas had a few more of these square-peg songs lying around. In fact you feel – perhaps appropriately for an album announced by a teaser trailer – a bit cliff-hung. Our appetite is whetted. Let’s have part two quickly, please.

Barry Nicolson

What do you think of the album? Let us know by posting a comment below.

Click here to get your copy of Julian Casablancas' 'Phrazes For The Young' from the Rough Trade shop.

8 out of 10

[nme.com]

 

[Sea Of Love]

oh God I LOVE Julian

If I was 15 I would consider myself a fangirl His new one is good but I can't wat for The Strokes new one. It will make my year, hopefully they will make their way to SYdney or I am going to have a hefty airline bill.

 

[HeatherAnne]

He looked GORGEOUS on Conan! Oh, and sounds good too.

 

[*ana*]

why WHY the blond hair streaks, julian?
it seems they did the best they could to make it soud like the recorded version, especially considering they were on a tv show and not on a big stage... i love his jacket. and hope his hair will be looking normal during the tour

 

[ckgirlbr]

The blond hair streaks suck so much, but it's incredibly good to watch him performing again Nice performance btw, it doesn't even seem a live presentation.

Thanks twin!

 

[La bordélique]

He looks good but I thought the performance was kind of weak.

 

[*ana*]

^i'm hoping it was due to the whole tv show/first live performance situation (ok i know that wasn't exactly the first), i guess it will get better during the tour...

so somebody made the first attempt to write river of brakelights...
some parts are clearly wrong, some i'm not sure, and some neither the person nor i understood...

i found a better version (the "??" aren't by me)

We might be in for a late night
Stuck in a lava flow of brake lights
I can hear a rattling bass drum
Driving back to where it came from

Set back, Ohh
I shop, therefore I am the cause
Protect me from what I was

Getting the hang of it (8x)
Timing is everything (6x)

I'm at your feet
Where craters meet [??]
We'll show me a super night
Crossing roads or highways
In the afterlife of supercities,
Rapidly devouring in south skirts [??]
Gives me an octopus arms [??]
Redecorating late at night

[Bridge:]
Robot game for kids who hate sports [??]
Mothers crying at the airport
Fighting the dreams you left behind to-do
Waving goodbye, your young heart cries for you

Set back, Ohh
You're finding it hard
To get very far

We were born waiting in life
Grabbing the future by the eyes

Getting the hang of it, Getting the hang of it
Timing is everything, Timing is everything
Getting the hang of it, Timing is everything
Getting the hang of it, Timing is everything

Timing the hang of it
Getting is everything
Getting the time of it
Everything hanging is
Hanging the getting of
Timing the everything

Like bodies we die
Like rivers we dry
We fuel and recharge the... [??]
Myself, myself
Lead my homeward bound
Where did you go?
You were my ride home

Is that what we want?
Is everything shot?
Is that what you ask for?
'Cause that's what we got

Life is destined
Life is destined
(songlyrics.com)

i'm not a native speaker so maybe that's why i can't undertand some parts (like "we'll show me (...)"), but "south skirts" is a bit too much for me, does that make sense? the "octopus arms redecorating (...)" sounded a bit funny too, but it does match the sound...
"like rivers we dry" sounds much better than "like yours degrade" though, and makes much more sense.
ok i'll stop now. i'm a lyrics-obsessed.

 

[orphée de musset]

Wow, i don't know if it's me who grow old or something, but he looks so corny, cheesy, loosy (like the music), he will never be the superstar he dream to be and never be hype anymore, he do not have charisma, this performance loos like his first or... last! It's kind of sad... He is now straight for nothing.

 

[*ana*]

Out Of The Blue!