News round up + Comedown Machine sold 96, 000 copies worldwide in its first week, this is considerably down from Angles which shifted 177,000 but with no promotion or live dates the band must have expected this + Julian is rumoured to be appearing on Daft Punk’s new album, Random...
As speculated previously Fast Animals is indeed a slighter faster version of album track Slow Animals. Â Personally I prefer Slow Animals which is one of my favourite tracks of Comedown Machine. Fast Animals is the b-side to the 7″ version of All The Time, released in the UK on April...
I wasn’t sure whether we would get a video for single “All The Time” seeing as the band are doing no promotion for Comedown Machine (at least for the time being). So it was a pleasant surprise to find out some kind of video has indeed been made. Â At first...
Just under a month until Comedown Machine is released, here is a round-up of the latest news and photos. Uncut Review A very short review appears in the new Uncut magazine News round-up The Strokes Trying Your Luck is due to be featured on a compilation CD aiming to...
The first official review of Comedown Machine is here courtesy of Q Magazine. For the record Q has rated the previous albums as follows (all out of 5) Is This It 5 stars, Room on Fire 5 Stars, FIOE 3 stars and Angles 4 Stars. Of course different reviewers for each record means different opinions, in...
All The Time is officially out today as a digital download. It is available on Amazon.com (US only) and ITunes (Definitely in the UK and I believe across the world). Good news for fans of physical copies and is that All The Time is being released as a 7†by...
The time is here and after One Way Trigger confused the hell out of a lot of people The Strokes first official single from Comedown Machine is a more traditional Strokes song, a rousing number that demands to be sung very loudly and by many people. Listen Listen to it below....
Zane Lowe will be airing the new single for the first time on Wednesday 13 February at 19.30 (UK time) BBC radio isn’t restricted to the UK so anyone can listen to it live Listen live to BBC Radio 1 Zane usually plays his hottest record at around 19:30 you...
Can’t wait to hear the full version of new single All The Time? Well Amazon have posted a 30 second preview to make us all go crazy as we await the glory of a new Strokes single. As the previews of Comedown Machine have suggested All The Time has the...
NME has the first track by track listen of Comedown Machine, complete with tracklist and well it sounds pretty different for the guys which just makes me want it more. As information and previews trickle in I feel like there are going to be many unhappy fans and also some...
