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The Strokes a decade after the debut

Let's face it: popular music is a lie. But it's the lie we crave: that the Beatles taught us how to love, that the Pistols taught us to be fierce, and that the Strokes — with their debut long-player released 10 years ago this week — delivered us from a
That was it
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | October 08, 2011

Coachella 2011 Photos: The Strokes, The Presets and The National

Concert photos of bands performing at the 12th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Coachella | Indio, CA | April 16, 2011
By JANICE CHECCHIO | April 29, 2011

Coachella builds a sweaty buzz over three days in the California desert

Coachella builds a sweaty buzz over three days in the California desert
Tough acts to follow
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | April 22, 2011

[video] The Strokes "Under Cover of Darkness" @ Coachella

There was a point during Sunday night's STROKES performance at Coachella, sometime between a fuck ton of people in an open field singing the chorus...
By Michael Marotta | April 19, 2011

The Strokes World Premiere Weekend: NOW

Listen to WFNX all weekend long as we play chops from the choice-cut new album from THE STROKES, Angles. It's seasoned to perfection. Street Date: ...
By FNXWeekenders | March 18, 2011

[mp3] The Strokes "Under Cover Of Darkness"

On May 22, 2001, THE STROKES released The Modern Age EP in North America, staring down a shit-stained stateside rock climate littered with Creeds, Dursts,...
By Michael Marotta | February 09, 2011

Mistle Thrush reunite, remain indefinable

It's a fun bit of Boston rock trivia that on September 23, 1991, homegrown post-punk band Bullet LaVolta played WFNX's fifth-birthday show at Axis with two relative unknowns: the Smashing Pumpkins and, on the eve of Nevermind 's release, Nirvana.
Waking from a dream
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | January 28, 2011

Winter music preview: Winter beats

James Blake, PJ Harvey, Cut Copy lead '11
James Blake, PJ Harvey, Cut Copy lead '11
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 31, 2010

Podcast: My Song Is Better Than Your Song 8-26-10

It's "Ball & Chain" by Social Distortion (Picked by challengers Tall Boy Industries) vs "Reptilia" by The Strokes (Picked by the returning champion Christine) in...
By MorningIntern | August 26, 2010

VIDEO: The Strokes play their first show in years

THE STROKES went on hiatus four years ago after First Impressions of Earth and each member did his own thing for a while. But now...
By Ryan Stewart | June 10, 2010

Holy rollers

This record grabs you by the throat from measure one.
Ten pounds of rock in a six-song Boo Box
By SAM PFEIFLE | March 12, 2010

Review: Julian Casablancas at the Paradise

Casablancas's solo debut, Phrazes for the Young (RCA), is a bizarre and twisted romp through sophisticated musical stylings that, especially in a live setting, sound light years away from the compact garage minimalism of early Strokes. This was evident
Julian Casablancas, live at the Paradise Rock Club, January 8, 2010
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 15, 2010

Photos and Video: Julian Casablancas at the Paradise Rock Club, and live on WFNX

20 MORE PHOTOS: Julian Casablancas at the ParadiseLucky us: Boston was on the short-list of JULIAN CASABLANCAS's solo-tour schedule. If you missed Daniel Brockman's interview...
By Carly Carioli | January 11, 2010

Prep rally

Much of the early backlash that followed the Strokes' meteoric rise had to do with the idea that a '00s punk revival couldn't be spearheaded by a band of moneyed prep-school twerps — as if boarding school and rock stars didn't go together like marmalade
Rock's rich history of boarding-school brats
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 08, 2010

Stroke of genius

Julian Casablancas is in control, for better or worse. Better, in the sense that he is finally seeing the release of his debut solo album, Phrazes for the Young (RCA), in which he steps out of the stripped-down style of the Strokes — his blockbuster un
Julian Casablancas goes it alone
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 08, 2010

Julian Casablancas on what's wrong with his solo record. Plus: the 76th bullshit Britney story of 2009

Highlights from this week's music pile: "I guess I always had a kind of fantasy of being, you know, a modern composer — not like...
By Carly Carioli | January 07, 2010

The Sandbox interviews Julian Casablancas

Charlie and Fletcher spoke with Julian Casablancas about his solo album, Phrazes for the Young, The Strokes and his favorite albums of the last 10...
By Charlie | December 18, 2009

VIDEO: Top 101 songs of the decade

WFNX's top 101 songs of the decade
The top 101 songs of the decade from WFNX 101.7 FM
By WFNX AND PHOENIX STAFF | December 18, 2009

Hottest songs of 2009

By PHOEBIE PHOENIX | December 18, 2009

The Big Hurt: 10-year glitch

It boggles the mind that as recently as a decade ago, if you wanted to hear "Knockin' da Boots" by H-Town (and you did, believe me), you'd have to perform a primitive prayer ritual: you'd call some creepy guy with a really deep voice and beg him to play
The Big Hurt: A major decade for music — minus the music
By DAVID THORPE | December 18, 2009

Exclusive video: Metric covers the Strokes' "The End Has No End"

VIDEO: Metric, "The End Has No End" (Strokes cover, live at Hard Rock Cafe)Just before taking the stage at the House of Blues on Friday,...
By Carly Carioli | November 23, 2009

Julian Casablancas | Phrazes for the Young

Someday, a great rock film will be made. The opening shot is of a wasted rock star, bejeweled and clad in the finest leather, with white panthers circling the living room of his Parthenon-esque manse as he hits PLAY on a comically large reel-to-reel.
RCA (2009)
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 06, 2009

Review: Various artists | Tru Thoughts Covers

Brighton-based label Tru Thoughts emerged at the dawn of the millennium with hit down-tempo/IDM acts like Bonobo.
Tru Thoughts (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER | September 18, 2009

The Big Hurt: Attention whoring and headline parsing

Slow news week.
Music news in brief
By DAVID THORPE | September 18, 2009

LA story

Ask people around here why they'd never move to LA and "the traffic" will reliably top the list. That sure sounds reasonable, but check it out: by not languishing in belching cars and rotting the sky for hours at a time, by not submitting to the forced
Little Joy's journey starts at home
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | June 19, 2009

Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

The French have a way of adopting bits of marginalized American culture — jazz, Faulkner, film noir — and transforming them into something headier, smokier.
V2 (2009)
By JAKE COHEN | May 15, 2009

Rogue wave

These days, younger, wiser bands simply don't bat their eyelashes at the majors like they used to.
The allure of the music industry may be long gone, but SXSW can still attract the underground to its edges
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 25, 2009

The Big Hurt: The Obama jubilance debriefing

Obama is the first president in history to drop a HOVA reference in a campaign speech by way of a little hand-brushy motion, and rappers turned out in droves to support him.
When celebrities celebrate, metaphors suffer
By DAVID THORPE | November 18, 2008

FNX FILES [MONDAY - 7/21]

Although the band's Web site claims that The Strokes will be "getting back at in" in early 2009, two more members of the band have...
By Paul Driscoll | July 21, 2008

Buzzkill

In a self-affirming cover story on “the new speed of hype,” Spin magazine’s March issue profiles Vampire Weekend.
The fickle state of the hype machine
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | March 05, 2008

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