Strokes News

Congratulations to Nikolai for completing the New York City marathon!
He came in 23,347th place, and over 100,000 runners registered.
His twitter page will now be doing Strokes updates.



Meanwhile, Julian Casablancas' solo album Phrazes for the Young is out in the US today ($4.99 on iTunes!), and he's done a Christmas song- I Wish it was Christmas Today. The song is available on iTunes as part of a Deluxe Edition of Phrazes.

Side Project + Weddings + Pangea

BR Update: I really like the EP now (see last 2 posts). Surprise, surprise. Can't blame them for their genius arrangements.

Tomorrow I'm going to go see Fab's (Strokes drummer) side project band Little Joy at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square. Same place and deal as Albert. Speaking of Albie, he's engaged to Agy Deyn. (Did you mean: albert hammond jr gay) Gotta love Google.

She was at his VM gig...arren't they cute with their matching shoes pants v necks short hair everythings?

And since when was Nikolai married to Regina Spektor? Hmm.

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New Music: Pangea

They're really not well known at all (aka totally obsucre). Found them on myspace- BR top friend was a band called Hooded Fang and one of HF's top friends was Pangea.

They've got 4 solid songs that sound like home recordings. Wouldn't be surprised since they're unsigned. I've been trying to find MP3 files with no luck.
Pangea Myspace

Strokes Day

I saw Julian on a TV commercial last night in the weird converse video. You know, that collaboration he did with a couple of rap artists for the 100th anniversary of the shoes?



So I go and check out the band's website. Here's what I found paraphrased: Question: when are The Strokes coming back? Answer: the guys are set to get back to it early 2009. Of course I knew about this since early July, I just never blogged about it. I was spending all my time chasing Albert. Anyway! This is exciting. I'm not going to even bother speculating when it's going to come out. They're really serious about mixing and remixing which adds a lot of time onto the process.

The website also listed solo projects for everyone else except for Nick. Fab has an album collaboration, Nikolai has an album under the name 'Nickel Eye'. Both are coming out in the fall.