Tuesday, April 30 2013
Har Mar Superstar: Bye Bye 17
A change of direction which sees Har Mar Superstar ditching the synths and sex in favour of soul and sax.
Thursday, March 28 2013
Was That It: The Rise and Fall of the Strokes
The sound, the cultural shifts, and the new way of doing business in the Internet-era music industry may have made the Strokes stars in 2001, but also contained the recipe for their undoing. Is Comedown Machine it for the Strokes?
Monday, March 25 2013
The Strokes: Comedown Machine
Julian Casablancas and company embrace the '80s on fifth studio album Comedown Machine.
Monday, September 12 2011
The Strokes’ ‘Is This It’ Ten Years Later
After 9/11, the Strokes offered rock escapism, three minutes at a time and they were not just a rock band, they were a New York rock band.
Pearl Jam: 20 Years in the Rearviewmirror: 3 - 4 September 2011
Pearl Jam's great 20th Anniversary blowout festival was held in Alpine Valley.
Friday, August 5 2011
Counterbalance No. 45: The Strokes’ ‘Is This It’
Our questions, they come to us in threes. Why are the Strokes so popular? How did they get the 45th most acclaimed album of all time? Is This It In this Counterbalance, Klinger will be the one to say the strangest things and Mendelsohn will act like it's completely normal.
Thursday, June 23 2011
Desitively Bonnaroo: Reporting from the Land of Dust and Music (Part 4)
You’ll be having fun, even though your body insists otherwise.
Monday, March 21 2011
The Strokes: Angles
Will Angles be known as the album where the Strokes found themselves at a crossroads or at the end of the road?
Friday, March 18 2011
SXSW: Music Day 2: The Strokes, Janelle Monae, TV on the Radio…
The Strokes and Janelle Monáe thrill at day two of SXSW, while Bob Geldof keynotes the morning conference with a combative and passionate talk about the decline of rock and roll.
