The Strokes

[AppleShaker]

wow you guys are fast how cute are jules and albert?

 

[HeatherAnne]

I recently purchased a pair of neon Miu Miu heels that are as bright as Julian's (and that tennis ball), so now we are officially sole mates.

Thanks for the Jools Holland links, will be ripping those off YouTube, they sound great!

 

[*ana*]

barefoot hotness @ Le Grand Journal: http://festival-cannes.canalplus.fr...du-grand-journal/the-strokes-l-integrale.html
"I say please don't slow me down the-the room is on fiiire while she's fixing her haaair" LOVE him!

 

[ckgirlbr]

Taken for a Fool - we're so lucky 'cause we never grow up, we're so lucky 'cause we... never grow up

 

[*ana*]

The played on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It will be aired on the 31th.

The Strokes answer your Twitter questions backstage at Conan
http://video.teamcoco.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=250038&eref=sharethisUrl
"What's your favorite Strokes song to play live?"
Nikolai: Wow, hm... Reptilia
Albert: Nick Valensi
Nikolai: Nick Valensi, from the new album

 

[La bordélique]

barefoot hotness @ Le Grand Journal: http://festival-cannes.canalplus.fr...du-grand-journal/the-strokes-l-integrale.html
"I say please don't slow me down the-the room is on fiiire while she's fixing her haaair" LOVE him!

That was hilarious!

 

[LolaSvelt]

time travelling right to 2006
Julian's voice is not sounding the best, but I can't blame him since they've been playing a lot lately.

You can download their performance at BBC here.

He sounded off on Jools Holland, but I'm just glad that was a minor blip because he sounded great on Le Grand Journal.

 

[*ana*]

Julian's voice wasn't the best at Ellen either... and I hate that Nick shaved his "beard", but there's always Fabrizio to make things better...

 

[LuellaLuella]

Albert

Fab's lookin' cool on the drums :-D

 

[ckgirlbr]

You can watch their performance at Wennie Roast here:

 

[ckgirlbr]

Music video for 'Taken for a Fool'

 

[*ana*]

I had totally forgotten they were to release a new video! I like it. *trying hard to ignore Julian's outfit*
Thanks ckgirlbr.

 

[HeatherAnne]

Trippy. I approve of the multiple Julian clones.

 

[AppleShaker]

Love them!

 

[ckgirlbr]

They played at T in the Park festival yesterday, here are the videos of the songs BBC broadcasted.

Machu Picchu


New York City Cops (not Taken for a Fool lol)

Reptilia

Last Nite

Is This It

Under Cover of Darkness

 

[XxpinktinksxX]

I thought they were supposed to be toying this summer, I dont mean festivals. Anyone know if they will maybe next year or something?

 

[*ana*]

Stereogum Presents… STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It
Jul 26th '11 by Stereogum @ 9:30am

The Strokes‘ debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection, STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It, is in the spirit of our previous free tribute albums for Radiohead’s OK Computer, R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People, and Bjork’s Post.

Is This It was recorded in NYC at Transporterraum with Gordon Raphael. When it was finally released in the States in the Fall of 2001, a decade after Nevermind, it helped not only put contemporary New York City in the forefront of music lovers’ minds, it offered an easy reference for people to dig backwards into the Big Apple’s rock ‘n’ roll past. For certain younger fans, it was maybe the first time they carefully considered Television (the late ’70s), the Velvet Underground (mid ’60s to early ’70s), and other lesser known garage and rock and whatever bands that inhabited a dirtier, grubbier Manhattan. The title’s pure Richard Hell. The original sexy album cover a minimalist echo of New York Dolls (via Roxy Music). It’s no coincidence that 2001 NYC — eventually, especially Brooklyn — ended up being known for its post-punk revival. (See, for instance, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Black Dice, Vice Records’ No New York nodding collection Yes New York, etc.) Is This It was a history lesson, but one with enough new ideas to also offer a roadmap.

In a strange way, Is This It sounded like something entirely new and entirely familiar at the same time. That’s one secret to its appeal. That, and the simple head-nodding hooks on modern classics like “Last Nite,” “Someday,” and “Hard To Explain” are so immediate. It’s a clean, but scruffy collection. It’s honed and tight, but also just loose enough — loose mostly in the presentation. People watching MTV in ’01 won’t forget the first time they saw the way Julian Casablancas didn’t seem to give a **** in the “Last Nite” video. Or how the bands’ minds appeared elsewhere when they performed on Late Night Television. It’s a kind of charisma you can’t teach or practice, one that felt as natural as their messy hair.

The Strokes maybe never topped Is This It, but you can’t blame them for that. Part of the record’s appeal is also the youthfulness of it, something you can’t replicate even a year later. That said, they definitely found a way to bottle it on the album itself: If you listen to it now, 10 years later, it sounds as fresh (and vintage) as ever. Which is maybe why its sound continues to surface in 2011 among both shaggy rock groups, yeah, but also kids with keyboards in their bedrooms and folks wearing sunglasses behind their laptops.

stereogum.com

Download here:http://stereogum.com/767531/stroked-tribute-to-is-this-it/mp3s/

 

[ckgirlbr]

^The idea of a tribute to such an album is nice, but most of the tracks are quite disappointing...Of course that I wasn't expecting it to sound exactly like it were them playing, but I feel the songs lost a bit of their essence.

 

[eli marie]

yeah, that was really mediocre

 

[HeatherAnne]

Agree with you both, I was excited about the covers, but after listening didn't like the sound of them at all.