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A very Julian Casablancas Christmas and omoti
• You can stream Casablancas' new album "Phrazes for the Young" at MySpace. Bonus, they also have his cover of SNL's "I Wish It Was Christmas Today."
• Mad Decent remixes Fools Gold with Mariah Carey.
• For Halloween, Ted Leo dressed up as Dansig, and played a whole concert with his Misfits cover band. Pitchfork has the videos.
• NPR is streaming a new Norah Jones song, "Light as a Feather," which was co-written by Ryan Adams.
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Strokes in places
• Stereogum has a review of Julian Casablancas' solo album up already, though the album doesn't drop until next week. It's largely positive and makes me (even more) excited to hear it.
• Also, did you catch Albert Hammond Jr. on "Gossip Girl" last night? (I can't find video, so I hope you DVR'd it.) He's shaved his head and is all skinny, but that was definitely him, playing the opening of Chuck Bass' club — which seems like a real life thing he would do, if Chuck Bass was a real 20-year-old taste making real estate mogul. Hammond played an acoustic version of "In Transit" from his first solo album.
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Julian Casablancas to release solo album
Well, Albert Hammond Jr. did it first, to great acclaim; and Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti followed suit this summer, to mixed results; and now Julian Casablancas is doing it, leaving guitarist Nick Valensi the only Stroke to not have a side project.
Casablancas' album "Phrazes for the Young" will be out this fall, followed by a tour. The rumor earlier this year was that the on-hiatus Strokes were supposed to be gearing up for album number four, but this news kind of invalidates that news.
What does it mean when all but one of your five person band is pursuing a solo project? Has anything like that ever happened in rock history?
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