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Perth Now
09-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
The Strokes stayed together 'for financial reasons'
The Strokes stayed together "for financial reasons". The Juicebox hitmakers - who released their first EP in 2001 - haven't released an album since 2020's The New Abnormal and frontman Julian Casablancas explained he has been more focused on his other project The Voidz because The Strokes had lost "creativity". He told Rolling Stone Italia: 'When I started making music, becoming passionate about my dreams and vision, I had a very clear idea of how I wanted things to evolve. 'My journey with the Strokes became something different from what initially attracted me to music.' Noting bands like Bon Jovi and Green Day showed The Strokes could have "gone on forever", he added: 'We had entered a mechanism that kept us together solely for financial reasons, pushing the band's creativity into the background. 'So I came to the conclusion that wasn't the way I wanted to develop. 'There's a beautiful Miles Davis quote: 'The real risk is not changing.' That's why I always want to feel like I'm searching for something unexplored. If I make money, that's fine, but I don't want to stay still. I'm not looking for security or the status quo. "If someone wants to keep creating, they have to be ready for change. Even if it means the death of something they held dear.' The 46-year-old musician previously admitted The Strokes' 2001 hit Last Nite is "pretty dead" to him and he'd switch it off if it came on the radio. Quizzed on which song he can no longer listen to, Julian told The Guardian newspaper: "Last Nite by The Strokes is pretty dead to me. I'm not sure why. "There are some others like Reptilia, Hard To Explain, Someday, Take It Or Leave It, New York City Cops that are comparable in terms of crowd reaction that I'm not quite as sick of. If I heard it on the radio, I'd probably turn it off." The singer has previously expressed his distaste for performing The Strokes' older hits live as he finds that the "music doesn't move you" after playing the same tunes repeatedly. He said in 2020: "When you're growing up and imagining playing music, it is for the excitement, but the one aspect of doing it for a living that is a sadness you don't anticipate is that you play songs so much, you become sick of them. "We hadn't played for a while. So it was still fun, but when you start playing 30 or 40 shows, the music doesn't move you. You feel phoney. To some extent, that's why I play with (side project) The Voidz. I couldn't care less about playing Last Nite."
New York Post
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
The Strokes announce short 2025 tour. Get tickets today
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. The Strokes are getting their reps in. Ahead of their two weekends of headlining gigs at the 2025 Austin City Limits Festival, Julian Casablancas and co. are teaming up for a pair of 'warm-up' concerts. These shows will take place at Las Vegas' Cosmopolitan on Saturday, Sept. 27 and El Paso's Abraham Chavez Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Special guests have been teased for both shows; at the time of publication, they have yet to be announced. This quick flurry of concerts will be the first for the garage rockers since March 2024 when they performed a one-off at Chicago's Credit Union 1 Arena to support U.S. Representative Kina Collins. That night, the scuzzy, fuzzy quintet delivered a 16-song set according to Set List FM. Highlights included fan favorites like 'Is This It,' 'New York City Cops,' 'Soma,' 'Someday' and 'Reptilia' as well as the band's sublime, under-appreciated gem 'Call It Fate, Call It Karma.' 'Most of the members focus on delivering a tight sound, resulting in them standing still on stage while lead singer Julian walks and dances around, waiting for his verses,' Prowl Radio wrote in a review of the show. '…in regular fashion, Julian had a ball on stage, rambling and joking around between songs, delivering unhinged remarks such as 'Where is my elixir? My steroid juice!' with maniacal laughter as he drank and also yelled, 'People of Chicago… REPENT!'' Over the last year, Casablancas, 46, has spent time fronting his side-group, The Voidz. On July 30, they released a four-song EP titled 'Męġż of Råm,' that sounds wholly unlike The Strokes but is an acquired taste worth trying; we can't get enough of the experimental half laid-back/half metal auto-tune aesthetic the group has cultivated. Fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming Strokes shows and festival appearances on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale for the two one-off shows is Friday, Aug. 8. Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event. The Strokes tour schedule 2025 A complete calendar of all concert and festival dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below. Austin City Limits Festival 2025 The payoff to the short tour goes down in Austin on Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12. Both weekends, the 'Reptilia' rockers will be joined by big names like Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier, Cage The Elephant, Doechii and Rilo Kiley. Personally, we're most excited to see Dr. Dog but that might just be us. If you'd like to attend, single and multi-day Austin City Limits passes can be found here. The Strokes set list Last March, The Strokes performed in Chicago. Here's what they took to the stage at that gig, according to Set List FM: 01.) 'Selfless' 02.) 'Hard to Explain' 03.) 'You Talk Way Too Much' (First time live since 2015) 04.) 'The Adults Are Talking' 05.) 'Take It or Leave It' 06.) 'Drag Queen' (First time live since 2017) 07.) 'Bad Decisions' 08.) 'The Way It Is' (First time live since 2019) 09.) 'Last Nite' 10.) 'Juicebox' 11.) 'Is This It' 12.) 'New York City Cops' Encore 13.) 'Call It Fate, Call It Karma' (With extended outro of Julian singing bits of 'Riders on the Storm' by the Doors) 14.) 'Soma' 15.) 'Someday' Encore II 16.) 'Reptilia' Julian Casablancas new music On July 30, Casablancas' The Voidz unveiled the four-song EP 'Męġż of Råm.' It's a weird, unbridled, pure artistic expression. Tight harmonies, lush soundscapes and bizarre yet beautiful vocal choices by Jules make for a fascinating listening experience that we can't help but revisit over and over. Although we love The Strokes wholeheartedly, this side project diversion allows Casablancas to let his freak flag fly in a way his OG band never would. In the event, you'd like to listen we recommend starting with the paranoid anthem 'Blue Demon.' The almost four-minute bop is like a cursed 8-bit video game soundtrack that somehow makes you want to get up and shake it. We're also partial to the creepy yet tranquil 'Russian Coney Island,' chilled-out fantasy 'Unholy Lover' and almost ambient fever dream 'Drifto.' Want to hear? You can find 'Męġż of Råm' here. Huge artists on tour in 2025 Not in Vegas or Texas? No worries. Here are just five of our favorite gritty rockers with Strokes-like sensibilities you won't want to miss live these next few months when they come to a venue near you. • Death Cab For Cutie • Pixies • Oasis • Vampire Weekend • Nine Inch Nails Who else is out and about? Take a look at our list of all the biggest rockers on tour in 2025 to find the show for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
ABC News
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
The Strokes guest program rage (2005)
People? They don't understand. Girlfriends? They don't understand. In spaceships?? They won't understand… But rage fans will understand that this week's Vault Guest Programmer is a band that scarcely requires any introduction: The Strokes. Join OG bandmates (and prep-school buddies!) Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi and Fabrizio Moretti as they play music video roulette with the rage red book. First aired back in 2005, on the very festive December 24th, this rage ep captures The Strokes in an absolute golden era of their success and caps off a fabulous year of rage Guest Programmers (a whole two decades ago!). Expect a cheeky show with a bunch of fun clips from artists including Beck, The Bee Gees, PJ Harvey and whoever else Fab thinks is, well, fab. Kicking off at 11:08pm this Friday on ABC Entertains (or stream live on ABC iview!).
