Julian Casablancas

The Strokes are an American rock band formed in 1998 in New York City. They rose to fame in the early 2000s as leaders in the garage rock revival. The band's members are Julian Casablancas (lead vocals), Nick Valensi (guitar), Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar), Nikolai Fraiture (bass guitar) and Fabrizio Moretti (drums and percussion).

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DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Dan from Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let’s Wrestle give us their picks of 2009 as we near completion of our Guest top 10s. <!--break--> TING TINGS Pure pop from two of the nicest people I’ve ever met in the music business, We toured with them in 2008 and watched them blow up and go on to world wide success, I’m...
Fever Ray Our top records of 2009 countdown continues, with our favourite singles, albums and downloads of the year. We’re now at numbers 60-41. <!--break--> 60: Crystal Stilts: Love is a wave Excellent single on Slumberland, a reverb drenched indie Scott Walker fronting Echo & The Bunnymen at their most optimistic. Download love is a wave Check out Crystal Stilts on...
As yall know from the popular website calendar.blogspot.com, the year 2k9 only has 2 months left. The annual music cycle is ‘officially over’ and will be dormant until the first major indie album release in 2k10. This means ‘we’ as an altosphere need 2 do our best to reflect on the year that we just lived, and try 2 analyze which album/artist/mp3 we want to be the...
Photo: Nick Gough We finally wave bye bye to 2009 with our final two wonderful guests - Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls <!--break--> Hatcham Social Top Ten Albums These are the albums I got most interested in this year and have been playing in my earphones constantly. Not in an exact order as such…more what I thought of as writing…I usually get into a band through a...
Bonus Eventus give us a stripped down and svelte top 5. Be sure to check out their fantastic debut album released on Dinosaurs in Vietnam <!--break-->   >> Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young >> Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix >> White Rabbits - It’s Frightening! >> Rx Bandits - Mandala >> Black Lips - 200...
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‘Eleventh Dimension’ Thanks, Zane Lowe! After the recent announcement and subsequent excitement of The Strokes singer Julian Casablancas’ debut solo album comes a radio rip of his first single, ‘Eleventh Dimension’, mere hours after it was first played on Lowe’s show. Phrazes For The Young’s lead song is everything I hoped for and more. While at first it...
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Julian Casablancas- Phrazes For The Young 8/10 Marrying sunny melodies with despondent lyrics, The Strokes’ lead singer and mastermind Julian Casablancas has shed his gritty punk rock demeanour for more eclectic experimentalism with his debut solo LP. Perhaps it was a determined move to ensure his detractors had a harder job pigeonholing him, harder than they’d have to try with...
Band name: ADAM GREEN Label: Rough Trade Teaser: This week sees the return of the old Mouldy Peach himself, and as Sophie Hall reports, his new album is a virtual zoo of genres, skipping between them like a feisty musical frog. But will it be his masterpiece? Read on to find out! Pull quote 2: In Adam Green’s mind there’s no such thing as genre - and if there...
The best songs on Julian Casablancas’ solo debut are the ones in which he sounds just like himself but not much at all like the Strokes, forcing us to reckon with the notion that the two things are not as synonymous as we’d previously thought. This is a bit like playing dress-up, and for the most part, Casablancas has sense enough to only indulge in drag that flatters his features. I...
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