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It’s been almost 17 months now since the Strokes dropped their latest record, the fantastic First Impression of Earth - and the band is officially on hiatus. There’s rumblings of songwriting and working on new stuff, but the word out of the Strokes camp is: don’t expect any new stuff anytime soon. cool. take your time boys… rest up… ahj, keep workin’ the killer solo record — and come back when you’re ready.

But in the meantime and perhaps to tide us over, the Strokes dropped a brand new music video today. An alternate clip for the first track off First Impressions, You Only Live Once — and it is jawdroppingly good. Its funny, with all this talk around the office about the MMVAs – here’s the video of the year, no fkn doubt about it (though I’m pretty sure it’s ineligible b/c it just came out).

Directed by LucasFilm (yes, LucasFilm) art director Warren Fu, the video encapsulates the theme of the record and the track so perfectly. Apparently, he pitched it to the band the first time around and it wasn’t chosen (whoops!). Total buzz-worthy clip for a totally tight track. head over to imeem to see the video nice + big RIGHT NOW!

extra bonus for Strokes fans, the band just relaunched a stellar new website today… pretty cool sht.

Posted on Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pm by Geoff M. and is filed under The NewMusic.

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