Live Review: The Strokes
Tonight doesn’t read like a moment for The Strokes ’ memoirs: they’re playing second fiddle to Swedish bloody House Mafia, as well as going up against Beyoncé on the Main Stage. ‘Angles’ wasn’t quite met with a ticker-tape parade,...
Live Review: The Strokes
If the return of The Strokes has taught us anything, it’s that friendships can be fleeting. The gang of roguish street urchins who once prowled New York’s Lower East Side – falling out of bars, making fun of policemen and putting the...
The Strokes - Angles (Rough Trade)
"I understand what people want,” Julian Casablancas insisted in these very pages a little over a month ago. “But things have changed.” Well, duh, Jules. In the 1,898 days (yep, we counted) that have passed between the release of ‘First...
The Strokes: Heart In A Cage
Swiss finishing school eductions! Supermodels on speed-dial! Enough NME Awards to start a bric-a-brac stall! No wonder The Strokes look so pissed off all the time. And what a right old bummer it must be knowing that you can ignore the two best...
The Strokes: First Impressions Of Earth
New York cool, then, turned out to be a phantasm: a seductive promise and at first, an exotic thrill – but one that, when you hit the sidewalk, dissipated like smoke from a Manhattan manhole. You landed hoping to rub shoulders with cheekboned...
The Strokes: Juicebox
Yes, it’s the theme from The Munsters. Yes, it’s a sped-up ‘Hash Pipe’ by Weezer. Yes, it’s the theme from Mission: Impossible. And yes, it is The Strokes embracing the brave new world of professional recording techniques from beefing...
The Strokes : Is This It
It's the best kind of New York story. One which mixes impossible glamour with brief excursions to the wild side. Which starts in a basement, and ends in huge acclaim. Which features good-looking participants in a potentially dirty business. A...
Strokes : Alexandra Palace: Saturday December 6
For those Heat readers and post-op lobotomy patients among you, we'll run through the trivialities first. Three of them wear suits; of the front-line only Nick Valensi opts to rock the Hippy Nephew Of Bruce Springsteen look instead. Julian comes...
The Strokes : 12:51
About bloody time n’ all. The thing about The Strokes is, they’re just so damnably perfect as a pop group that it can make all the other ones seem a little, well, extraneous. I mean, two of them have got curly hair and half of them are...
The Strokes : Room On Fire
Remember life before The Strokes [/url]? Guitar music sounded like something you’d rather convalesce to than go out and rock to. Its stars looked like binmen and talked like librarians. In fact, the whole foggy, soggy mess looked like it was...
