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Happy Birthday Julian Casablancas!

August 23rd, 2012

Dear Julian, These past thirty four years have been a blast! We’ve been loving your long shiny hair since Is This It and we still play it on heavy rotation. You’ve released three more albums with The Strokes and a solo album. You made some pretty solid covers (and got covered too). Dude, you get [...]

Tags: Julian Casablancas, the strokes
Posted in Blog, Celebrities & Pop Culture, Just For Fun, Music & Videos | Posted by Aimee

The Wedge News Round Up: Strokes frontman selling perfume in new ad

September 1st, 2011

Well, it’s pretty obvious that The Strokes aren’t exactly what they used to be ten years ago, but now frontman Julian Casablancas has resorted to selling perfume in a new ad for French fragrance company Azzaro. The campaign is for a scent called “Decibel: The Essence of Rock,” which as we all know, Julian already [...]

Tags: ECHO Songwriting Prize, Julian Casablancas, Scratch Acid, the strokes, tokyo police club, TV On The Radio
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

The Strokes to write follow-up to “Angles” in April

March 25th, 2011

We waited five years for The Strokes to release their fourth album, Angles, this past Tuesday. But if we’re to believe the band, we won’t have to wait that much longer for their fifth. In an interview with UK radio station Xfm, bassist Nikolai Fraiture said The Strokes are looking to begin writing their next [...]

Tags: Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture, the strokes
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

Converse Brings Together Killer Musical Trio For Collaboration

July 8th, 2010

Rapper Kid Cudi, Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij and Best Coast have already become mainstays on our summer playlists but now Converse has created a dream come true by getting the trio together. The collaboration has been teased for a while on their site with profiles of each of the artists and now the song is [...]

Tags: best coast, Bethany Cosentino, Converse, Julian Casablancas, Kid Cudi, n*e*r*d, Rostam Batmanglij, santigold, Vampire Weekend
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Jessica F

Coachella. Wow. You gotta go.

April 26th, 2010

Coachella. Wow. You gotta go. I did. Check out my review on this year’s Coachella Festival after the jump! *Blog post by Darren Bourne

Tags: B.O.B., beyonce, Coachella, David Guetta, De La Soul, Deadmau5, Fever Ray, flea, Gorillaz, Hot Chip, jay-z, Josh Hartnett, Julian Casablancas, Kaskade, kristen stewart, Matt & Kim, Mike Snow, muse, passion pit, phoenix, red hot chilli peppers, Richie Hawtin, Sly and the Family Stone, the xx, them crooked vultures, thom yorke, Tiesto, Tom Morello, twilight, will.i.am, Yeasayer
Posted in Blog, Celebrities & Pop Culture, Concert Reviews, Concerts & Events | Posted by Guest Blogger

Matt’s Weekly Tunes

April 20th, 2010

Wheeeeee!!!!! It’s finally starting to get nice outside, so I’ve made you guys a playlist of what I think are warm and exciting songs. Spicy!!!! “11th Dimension” – Julian Casablancas (Phrazes For The Young, 2009) [listen!] “There Is XXXX (Within My Heart)” – You Say Party! We Say Die! (XXXX, 2009) [listen!] “Trades & Tariffs” [...]

Tags: correspondents, good tunes, Julian Casablancas, music, Stars, The Dodos, we say die!, weekly tunes, you say party
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Matty - Correspondent

Julian Casablancas @ The Kool Haus: Still a Stroke at Heart

April 5th, 2010

Side projects. They can be the worst or the best. When The Strokes decided to take a lil break, many were scared, “WHAT SHALL I DO?” I yelled (to the displeasure of many around me). I was scared. Oh so scared. But then! Hark! Guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr.’s first solo album was released! And it [...]

Tags: Albert Hammond, Jr., Julian Casablancas, Little Joy, Nickel Eye, Saturday Night Live, the strokes
Posted in Blog, Concert Reviews | Posted by Kate M.

Coachella line-up announced

January 19th, 2010

Coachella has announced its full line-up and it looks well, very Coachelly-ish. Headliners for the three nights over the weekend of April 16th to 18th are Jay-Z (Friday), Muse (Saturday) and Gorillaz (Sunday). Among the other big names scheduled to play are LCD Soundsystem (pictured), Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, She [...]

Tags: Coachella, David Guetta, Deerhunter, Gorillaz, Grace Jones, grizzly bear, Hot Chip, jay-z, Julian Casablancas, LCD Soundsystem (pictured), Major Lazer, Matt & Kim, MGMT, muse, Owen Pallett, passion pit, Pavement, phoenix, She & Him, Spoon, The Dead Weather, The Gossip, the xx, them crooked vultures, thom yorke, tokyo police club, Vampire Weekend, Yo La Tengo
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Cam

Stuff You Should Listen To!

November 19th, 2009

Just in case your iPod is looking a little dry these days, might I recommend some tunes for you to spice things up again? The Sunshine Underground is one of England’s rising musical talents, after capturing the attention of audiences all over Britain in 2005 when the lads won a BBC Battle of the Bands [...]

Tags: Julian Casablancas, laura marling, music, new music, the sunshine underground
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Megan C

Julian Casablancas Releases First Solo Single

September 18th, 2009

Since The Stokes’ last album First Impressions of Earth each member of The Strokes has released a solo album or worked on another project except for lead singer Julian Casablancas. Well that has all changed. There has been a lot of talk about when Julian would release something on his own and the time has [...]

Tags: 11th dimension, Julian Casablancas, phrazes for the young, the strokes
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Alberto