The Strokes Tickets : The Band Has Maintained A Large Fan Base Mostly In Many Countries
The Strokes are an American rock band formed in 1998 in New York City. Its members are Julian Casablancas (lead vocals), Nick Valensi (guitar), Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar), Nikolai Fraiture (bass guitar) and Fabrizio Moretti (drums and percussion).
Upon the release of their debut album Is This It in 2001, the group met much critical acclaim.NME made Is This It their Album of the Decade. Since then, the band has maintained a large fan base, mostly in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. A number of members have embarked on a variety of side projects, although a fourth album, entitled Angles, is in preparation for release on March 22, 2011.
The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas and guitarist Nick Valensi started writing material for their band's forthcoming album in January 2009, intent on entering the studio that February. Julian commented in Rolling Stone that they completed about three songs that sound like a mixture of 70s rock and "music from the future".
The band stated on their MySpace account on March 31, 2009: "After a long and much needed hibernation period that saw many of the band's various other musical projects emerge, we're pleased to announce that The Strokes are now all back hard at work in their NYC space on writing and rehearsing new material for a 4th full-length album.
No recording studio time has been booked yet, as they sketch out the blue-prints of new songs and fine tune plans in their rehearsal space, but it will undoubtedly be all mapped out and etched in stone at some point in the not-too-distant future."
In an NME article, Pharrell Williams expressed interest in producing The Strokes' next album. This followed the news that Casablancas had collaborated with Williams and Santigold on 'My Drive Thru,' a track commemorating the 100th anniversary of Converse's Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe. The song was available as a free download from the official Converse site.
On April 3, 2009, media site RipcordNews received an update from The Strokes reporting, I wish I could tell you that this definitely meant we can expect an album release date before the end of 2009, but it is just too soon to speculate on that for sure yet. One way or another suffice to say, the work has begun!.
On July 18, 2009, The Strokes official website stated that the band are spending the summer of 2009 recording material for a new album. The website states: The Strokes are working away in the city on their next record. The album is still on schedule for early next year release as previously announced.
The album was due to be released in late 2009, but delays have forced The Strokes to scale back this date. In a new interview Julian Casablancas has revealed that the bulk of the album is recorded, but there are disagreements as to which tracks should appear. There is a disagreement as to whether the songs are ready, he explained to The Sun. Some of the band think they are and others don't. I'm somewhere in the middle.
The Strokes were announced as the 2011 headliner for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April, as well as Festival Internacional de Benicassim (Spain), Super Bock Super Rock (Portugal) in July and Summer Sonic (Japan) in August .On January 5, 2011, Nikolai Fraiture announced that the album would be out "by March", with a world tour following the album's release. He later confirmed that the release date would be March 22, 2011.
On January 18, 2011, in a Rolling Stone interview, it was announced that the new album would be titled Angles, seeing as, It is what the record sounds like,said Albert Hammond Jr. It comes from five different people. 6 out of the 10 track names have been confirmed including Undercover of Darkness, which will be the lead single,"Taken for a Fool", "Life Is Simple in the Moonlight", "Machu Picchu" and "Call Me Back".
The lead single from the new album, "Under Cover of Darkness", was released on February 9, 2011.Seconds after the first official airing on BBC Radio 1, Julian Casablancas announced that the single would be online for a free download for 48 hours.
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