The Strokes are getting back together on February 11 at 2:00 p.m. to get started on their fourth album.
I must editorialize for a moment, and say: Thank God. I can only listen to the 39 songs on the band’s three albums so many times. But now, with all of the band in a good place from both a family and health perspective, the “saviors of pop” are officially coming back.
“We’re getting back together for the first time in two years, and it’s very exciting,” Albert Hammond Jr. told Rolling Stone. “We’re just going to start working on songs. I mean, sounds — we don’t even have the songs. We got to get back to playing first.”
One would have to think that the recording process this time around, compared to that of First Impressions of Earth, would be much faster. The band has had three years to write new riffs, lyrics and melodies. And the last time that Julian Casablancas, the band’s singer and main songwriter (he wrote all the tracks on Is This It and Room on Fire), got this type of time was before the industry-changing Is This It.
With that being said, Hammond says The Strokes are simply getting back together in mid-February.
“Right now, it’s just February 11th at 2 o’clock we’re going to the studio to hang out and play music,” Hammond said. “I just know the date and time.”
The most underrated thing that fans of The Strokes should keep an eye out for (and check back here daily to learn more about) is who the band picks to produce the record. My guess is that the band, and this is purely speculation, goes forward from what First Impressions of Earth was, in terms of the sound, and doesn’t revert back to the primitive style of their first two records.
All that I hope is that The Strokes don’t turn into The Killers and use saxaphones in the attempt to copy U2 and Bruce Springsteen.
UPDATE: Starting on Feb. 11, Is This It X will post unknown/unheard tracks from the band each weekday until the songs run out. Do you want to hear the Alone Together demo? You Only Live Once with Julian Casablancas’ original lyrics? How about a version of Hard to Explain that sounds like a Christmas song? If so, check back on Feb. 11.
In the meantime, enjoy Triumph the Insult Comic Dog interacting with The Strokes…
The Lonely Island, the Saturday Night Live trio who have produced such hits as “Dick in a Box” and “Jizz in My Pants,” have released details about their new album, and I, for one, am excited.
First off, here’s “Jizz in My Pants”…
Here’s what you need to know…
The Lonely Island’s album is called “Incredibad.” It comes out on Feb. 10, and features 19 tracks. Of those 19, only six have been made into videos and dispersed throughout American culture.
Here’s the complete track listing…
Incredibad Tracklisting: CD:
01. Who Said We’re Wack?
02. Santana DVX [ft. E-40]
03. Jizz in My Pants
04. I’m on a Boat [ft. T-Pain]
05. Sax Man [ft. Jack Black]
06. Lazy Sunday [ft. Chris Parnell]
07. Normal Guy (Interlude)
08. Boombox [ft. Julian Casablancas]
09. Shrooms (Interlude)
10. Like a Boss
11. We Like Sportz
12. Dreamgirl [ft. Norah Jones]
13. Ras Trent
14. Dick in a Box [ft. Justin Timberlake]
15. The Old Saloon (Mix Tape Edit) (Interlude)
16. Punch You in the Jeans
17. Space Olympics
18. Natalie’s Rap [ft. Natalie Portman and Chris Parnell]
19. Incredibad
Here’s “We Like Sportz”…
The songs that I’m most interested in hearing is I’m on a Boat, Punch You In The Jeans and Boombox. But this album should be great. I hope. There’s always the possibility that all of the funny/catchy songs were made into digital shorts. But let’s hope that’s not the case.
Finally, I haven’t heard/watched this yet, but here’s The Lonely Island’s Bing Bong Brothers, which is the latest video that The Lonely Island posted on their YouTube channel…
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