Nov 03, 2021 By Laura Studarus

Welcome to Why Not Both Wednesdays. Every week, in partnership with Why Not Both podcast, we’ll be presenting new podcast episodes that explore how multiple passions inform the inspiring lives of musicians, writers, actors, and creatives. For our first in person interview since early 2020, we invited Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes over to hang out and drink wine selzer. More

Apr 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Nov 03, 2020 By Joey Arnone

Julian Casablancas, frontman of bands The Strokes and The Voidz, has teamed up with Rolling Stone to launch a new interview series entitled SOS - Earth is a Mess. For the second installment he interviewed entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who appeared as a hologram speaking to Casablancas. More

Apr 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes have released a new album, The New Abnormal, today via Cult/RCA. It’s their first new album in seven years and now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. You can also read our review of it. More

Apr 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes are releasing a new album, The New Abnormal, this Friday via Cult/RCA. Now they have shared another song from it, “Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus.” More

Apr 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Sexy is subjective. What someone finds sexy can depend on their gender, sexual orientation, and personal tastes. And yet we have tried incredibly hard, and I mean really, really hard, to come up with the undisputed sexiest album covers of all time. Here are the 18 sexiest. More

Feb 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes are releasing a new album, The New Abnormal, on April 10 via Cult/RCA. Now they have shared another song from it, “Bad Decisions,” via a video for the track that features The Strokes as clones who are being sold in a 1970s style TV commercial. More

Feb 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was a solid week for new tracks, but we managed to keep it reined in to our regular 10 tracks as opposed to last week’s supersized 13-song edition. And in a rarity for Songs of the Week, the same artist is #1 two weeks in a row! More

Feb 11, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes have announced a new album, The New Abnormal, and shared its first single, “At the Door,” via a video for the track. They announced the album when they performed at a Bernie Sanders get out the vote concert rally in Durham, New Hampshire last night, on the eve of today’s New Hampshire primary (you can also watch the full video of the rally and performance). More

Jan 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes have announced that they will be playing a Bernie Sanders get out the vote concert rally in Durham, New Hampshire on the eve of that state’s primary election. More

Jan 07, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Governors Ball has announced the lineup for their 2019 festival, which goes down in New York City’s Randall’s Island Park the weekend of May 31 to June 2. The line-up includes Florence + the Machine; The Strokes; Tyler, The Creator; Mitski; and more. More

Mar 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. released a new solo album, Francis Trouble, earlier this month via Red Bull Records. Previously he shared its first single, “Muted Beatings,” performed the song on Conan, and shared a video for “Muted Beatings.” More

Mar 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Voidz (the project led by the frontman of The Strokes, formerly known as Julian Casablancas and the Voidz) are releasing their new album, Virtue, tomorrow (March 30) via Cult Records/RCA. Now they have shared a video for “Pyramid of Bones.” More

Mar 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Voidz (the project led by the frontman of The Strokes, formerly known as Julian Casablancas and the Voidz) are releasing their new album, Virtue, on March 30 via Cult Records/RCA. Now they have shared another song from the album, the relaxed “ALieNNatioN.” More

Mar 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is releasing a new solo album, Francis Trouble, this Friday (March 9) via Red Bull Records. Previously he shared its first single, “Muted Beatings,” performed the song on Conan, and shared a video for “Muted Beatings.” More

Mar 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Voidz (the project led by the frontman of The Strokes, formerly known as Julian Casablancas and the Voidz) are releasing their new album, Virtue, on March 30 via Cult Records/RCA. Now they have shared another song from the album, “All Wordz Are Made Up,” via a colorful and chaotic video directed by the band’s guitarist, who just goes by name Beardo. More

Mar 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is releasing a new solo album, Francis Trouble, on March 9 via Red Bull Records. Previously he shared its first single, “Muted Beatings,” performed the song on Conan, and shared a video for “Muted Beatings.” Then he shared another song from the album, “Far Away Truths.” Now he has shared the album’s third single, “Set to Attack.” More

Feb 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is releasing a new solo album, Francis Trouble, on March 9 via Red Bull Records. Previously he shared its first single, “Muted Beatings,” performed the song on Conan, and shared a video for “Muted Beatings.” Now he has shared another song from the album, “Far Away Truths.” More

Feb 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Julian Casablancas and the Voidz, the project led by the frontman of The Strokes, recently changed their name to just The Voidz. Their new album, Virtue, is due out March 30 via Cult Records/RCA. More

Feb 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is releasing a new solo album, Francis Trouble, on March 9 via Red Bull Records. Previously he shared its first single, “Muted Beatings,” and performed the song on Conan. Now “Muted Beatings” has a video. More

Feb 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has announced a new solo album, Francis Trouble, and shared its first single, “Muted Beatings.” More

Jan 31, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Julian Casablancas and the Voidz, the project led by the frontman of The Strokes, recently changed their name to just The Voidz. Their new album, Virtue, is due out March 30 via Cult Records/RCA. More

Jan 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Julian Casablancas and the Voidz, the project led by the frontman of The Strokes, recently changed their name to just The Voidz and shared a new song, “Leave It In My Dreams.” Now they have announced their new album, Virtue, and shared another song from it. More

Jan 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Julian Casablancas and the Voidz, the project led by the frontman of The Strokes, recently changed their name to just The Voidz. Now they have shared a new song, “Leave It In My Dreams.” More

Feb 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Blondie have announced a new album, Pollinator, and shared its first single “Fun.” Pollinator is due out May 5 via BMG. The album features a slew of special guests, including Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes), Charli XCX, Johnny Marr, Sia, TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek, Joan Jett, Laurie Anderson, The Strokes’ Nick Valensi, and others. More

Jul 28, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Nice As Fuck (aka NAF), is a new band featuring Jenny Lewis, Au Revoir Simone’s Erika Forster, and The Like’s Tennessee Thomas. The band recently surprised-released their self-titled debut album. More

Jul 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes recently released the Future Present Past EP via Cult. Now they have announced that they are playing the inaugural City of Angels Benefit Concert at the Wiltern Theatre on July 25. More

Jun 28, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes recently released the Future Present Past EP via Cult. It contains three new songs and one remix. Now the band has shared a video for “Threat of Joy.” More

Jun 03, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes recently announced the Future Present Past EP, which is due out today via Cult. It contains three new songs and one remix. The three songs have already been shared via various platforms: “OBLIVIUS,” “Drag Queen,” and “Threat of Joy.” Now “Drag Queen” has a cool music video. More

May 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

This morning The Strokes announced the Future Present Past EP and shared a song from it, “OBLIVIUS.” Then another song from the EP, opening track “Drag Queen,” was premiered by Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 radio show on Apple Music. Now the last original song from the EP, “Threat of Joy,” has premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show. Listen below via Spotify. More

May 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

This morning The Strokes announced the Future Present Past EP and shared a song from it, “OBLIVIUS.” Now another song from the EP, opening track “Drag Queen,” has been premiered by Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 radio show on Apple Music. More

May 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Strokes have announced the Future Present Past EP and shared a song from it, “OBLIVIUS.” Frontman Julian Casablancas debuted the song this morning on his brand new monthly radio show for SiriusXM, Culture Void (today was its first episode). More

May 12, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has announced the upcoming release of his third solo album, Momentary Masters. More

Apr 22, 2015 By Trevor Flynn

Ahead of Spoon‘s upcoming remix EP, Spoon: Inside Out Remixes, the band has shared an included take from The Strokes’ drummer Fabrizio Moretti. More

Sep 08, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

With his new backing band The Voidz, Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas will release a brand new solo album titled Tyranny on Sept. 23. More

Mar 15, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

On March 26, The Strokes will release their newest album Comedown Machine. More

Feb 13, 2013 By Cody Ray Shafer

The Strokes have debuted the new single from their upcoming album Comedown Machine, called “All the Time.” Comedown Machine is the band’s fifth studio LP and second release after their five-year hiatus before 2011’sAngles. The album is due out March 26 on RCA. More

Jan 30, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The Strokes have revealed that their upcoming fifth album will be titled Comedown Machine. More

Jan 25, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Here’s a little something to take you into the weekend: The Strokes have unveiled a brand new single called “One Way Trigger.” More

Jan 17, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Here’s a rumor for your morning. Despite reports to the contrary, The Strokes have been working on new music. More

Sep 25, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Over the weekend during the Pop Montreal Arcade Fire‘s Win Butler organized his second annual “POP Vs. Jock” charity basketball game, where he and team of musical artists played a game of hoops against members of the McGill University Redmen and the Concordia University Stingers. More

Aug 29, 2011 By Mi Tran

On Saturday at the Reading Festival in the U.K., Pulp‘s frontman, Jarvis Cocker, joined The Strokes onstage to cover The Cars’ song, “Just What I Needed.” More

Jul 08, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Today, The Strokes dropped a video for “Taken For a Fool,” a cut off newest album, Angles. We have the clip. More

May 13, 2011 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary music photographer David Redfern was down at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival last month. We’ve just posted a gallery of Under the Radar-friendly artists who Redfern shot at the festival. More

Apr 19, 2011 By Raymond Flotat

On the final day of the 2011 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, the big guns were all stacked up together. Almost in perfect sequence on various stages, Death From Above 1979, Trentemoller, Duran Duran, Ratatat, The Strokes, PJ Harvey and Kanye West were an excellent finale to this year’s festival. More

Mar 31, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing their assault on late night television The Strokes performed “You’re So Right” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, bringing with them a black and white palette for all the viewers at home. More

Mar 25, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

As if The Strokes weren’t saturating the music news cycle enough with their recently released album Angles, in a radio interview with XFM bassist Nikolai Fraiture said that the band is already planning on starting work on their fifth album as soon as next month. More

Mar 24, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Following their recent live show at SXSW, The Strokes made their next high-profile stop last night on the set of Late Night with David Letterman More

Mar 14, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Falling under the category of “things that inevitably happen when your much anticipated album is roughly a week away from release,” two new songs by The Strokes have leaked themselves on the interweb. More

Mar 07, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Kick-starting what one can only assume to be the first in a number of televised, late night appearances, The Strokes performed on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. More

Mar 02, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

It seems as though the The Strokes just can stop giving up the goods. After providing NME.com yesterday with a stream of the song “You’re So Right” off their upcoming album Angles the New York band has unveiled the video a video for “Under Cover of Darkness.” More

Mar 01, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

NME.com has gotten its hands on a new track by The Strokes called “You’re So Right.” More

Feb 16, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

The Strokes have announced that they will be playing their first ever gig at New York’s Madison Square Garden on April 1 in support of their much anticipated fourth album, Angles. More

Feb 15, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival’s four-day entertainment extravaganza has unveiled its 2011 lineup. More

Feb 11, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Having been absent for so long, The Strokes have become quite generous lately in regards to their forthcoming fourth album, Angles. More

Feb 08, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

The Strokes new single will available for free for a limited time starting tomorrow. More

Jan 25, 2011 By Laura Studarus

On March 22, The Strokes return with Angles, their first album since 2006’s First Impressions of Earth. Today they released a tracklist. More

Jan 19, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Coachella has announced its 2011 lineup. The three-day festival will take place in the California desert town of Indio April 15, 16, and 17. Kings of Leon headline Friday, Arcade Fire are the headliners on Saturday, and Sunday features the dual headliners of Kanye West and The Strokes. Suede, The Black Keys, Bright Eyes, PJ Harvey, Interpol, The National, and many more also confirmed to play.

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Jul 14, 2009 By Michele Yamamoto

The Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas has announced the upcoming release of a solo album recorded over the last year. More

Mar 22, 2013 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Fair or not, Is This It and Room on Fire, The Strokes’ one-two punch from the first few years of the ‘00s, loom heavy over all of their subsequent releases. And for good reason—those albums remain immensely listenable and enjoyable, the sheer pop prowess and technical chops belied by how casual they felt. More

Apr 20, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Day three of Coachella 2011 was already the weakest day in terms of the lineup, so this year’s festival ended with more of a whimper. There were highlights, including some ’80s New Wave legends, and some dancing Danes. And then there was Kanye West. More

Apr 18, 2011 By John Everhart

The Strokes found themselves in the right place at the right time circa post-9/11 New York City. Released in October 2001, the epochal Is This It (great with or without “New York City Cops” being excised in the domestic issue) sent up all the right influences—the dank “Waitin’ For the Man” decadence of The Velvets, the clean-yet-rocking Tom Verlaine-esque guitars, and the unhinged debauchery of Iggy & the Stooges. More