The Modern Age

The Strokes‘ annual Christmas picture:

In the history of all-time great Strokes interviews, this one would have to be on the list just for the above quote. Jeff sent me the link to this great interview with The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas about…The Mets!
Julian discusses his love for Beltran, how messing up game 7, 9th inning would have “potentially psychologically wrecked” [...]

Check out this item on Gawker, which details out the tale of one bartender at the Upright Citizens Brigade who keeps getting into situations where Albert seems to be in her way.
Aww, poor Albert, I’m sure he doesn’t mean to be a human roadblock.
Thanks to Fo for the link.

The Pierces, sisters Catherine and Allison, are going gigging with Albert Hammond Jr. at the end of this month during the UK leg of his solo tour. They are supporting their new album, Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge, which will be released in February 2007 on Lizard King Records.
Their live band includes Russell Simins [...]

One fan had enough time on her hands to see what it would look like if someone painted a religious-style portrait of Jules for her art class. Whadda think?

Check out this NY Magazine article about Albert Hammond Jr.’s favorite places to eat in Lower Manhattan.
When Albert isn’t eating Raisin Bran, he eats at some pretty great places like Brown, Frank, and La Esquina. But anyone else happen to notice this little nugget?:
I had Japanese that night — I go to Esashi. It’s literally [...]

Hooray! Strokes guitarist, Albert Hammond Jr. has a new video for his single, “101,” off his solo album, Yours to Keep.

Directed by Patrick Daughters (the man behind the great Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Cheated Hearts” and Futureheads’ “Hounds of Love” vids) and shot on location in Los Angeles, it depicts the aftermath of a terrible accident [...]

I had been semi-boycotting going to any CMJ shows this year because after going to Iceland Airwaves (which I still have yet to finished writing about), I had my fill of concert-going to last me a few months. So you can imagine how un-excited I was to break that streak when I found out that [...]

And now, a post from my special correspondent, Bao:
Laura was kind enough to ask me and Mike to report the madness known as the Hennessy Artistry event at Capitale featuring the Strokes, Kanye West, Goldfrapp, and Carl Cox whilst she was away in Iceland seeing bands that play their guitars with a drumstick. Here is [...]

Yes yes, only one day away from one of the hottest events going on this week–the Hennessy Artistry party featuring an all-star lineup of Goldfrapp, Kanye West, The Strokes and DJ Carl Cox at NYC’s Capital.
Carl Cox has written an exclusive track for the event called “The Global Art of Mixing” made up of samples [...]