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I believe it’s a vintage 1990’s era Houston Oilers snap back hat. The team was briefly known in the mid-90s as the Tennessee Oilers, but are now known as the Tennessee Titans. Julian Casablancas just wore the hat again on Conan tonight: Where can you get mad swag like JC? Well the bad news is …
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Video of The Strokes performing “Juicebox” live at Coachella 2011 I kind of want to live by these words. I wonder what that would look like… Thnx Julian Casablancas and your wonderful stage banter! What a perfect Casablancasism. BTW, “Under Control” is pretty much one of my favorite Strokes songs ever:
This week has been completely insane — I witnessed over 9 hours of LCD Soundsystem (yup, I was at the LCD MSG show as well), and one glorious night of The Strokes all in one week. I think I sweated off my body weight about three times over, dancing myself clean, moshing in multiple pits, …
So there’s the band called The Strokes. They are originally from right here in New York City, and you may have figured it out by now, but I really like them. They played their first public hometown gig in over five years and this was definitely a heroes welcome. The guys were in fine form …
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Well folks, today is the last official day of Strokes March Madness. *Sniff sniff* It’s been a wild and crazy journey through the last 10 years of Strokes memories. I want to thank everyone for being so kind and encouraging me through this insane exploration into fandom. You’ve all been oh so nice and supportive. …
Wow. My second LCD Soundsystem farewell show @ Terminal 5. Definitely way crazier than the first night’s gig. I nearly DIED when they broke into my absolute favorite Harry Nilsson song, “Jump Into the Fire,” during their encore. Check out Bromander-in-Chief James Murphy totally killing it in this video I took of the song: VIDEO: …
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I thought it would only be appropriate to revisit The Strokes‘ previous set of shows at the sister venue to Madison Square Garden — the Theater at MSG. In 2003, the band did three sold out shows to promote their newly released second album, Room on Fire. I distinctly remembering complaining about having to watch …
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Rounding out the final week of Strokes March Madness. This one is a scan of one of the picture pages in the first issue of Alone, Together, the now defunct official Strokes fan club. So many Bag Heads. It’s hard to choose your favorite.
A last minute ticket came through for tonight’s LCD Soundsystem final shows blowout at Terminal 5. It’s been years and years since I last saw LCD Soundsystem, but they have always remained in my mind as one of the premiere effortlessly cool bands from NYC. Up at the front it was a dirty, sticky, absolutely …
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My brain exploded twice in one week when both the Strokes and the White Stripes played a double headlining bill first at Irving Plaza (August 14, 2002) and then at Radio City Music Hall (August 15, 2002) in New York City. The Irving Plaza show was insane of course, with the White Stripes opening, and …