HAIM played on Sirius XMU last month. During the session they covered The Strokes' "I'll Try Anything Once" -- an early version of "You Only Live Once" that was released as a B-side in the UK in…   Read Story »

New Yorkers like to think of New York as the center of the universe, or at least the center of gravity where cool is concerned. And, dammit, no matter how thoroughly and vigorously landlocked dolts…   Read Story »

On Record Store Day (4/20), the Strokes will release a 7-inch for their recent single "All The Time." It's from their new album, Comedown Machine, officially out on the 26th. (In case you missed it,…   Read Story »

At SXSW, they give you all these bracelets everywhere you go -- indicating you've got clearance to enter different venues or VIP sections or whatever -- and you can't really take any of them off…   Read Story »

We've already heard the previews, as well as entire songs "One Way Trigger" and "All The Time." And now all of Comedown Machine, the gleaming and adventurous fifth album from New York rock band the…   Read Story »

The Strokes' new album Comedown Machine is only a week away from release, but we've only heard two songs, "One Way Trigger" and "All The Time." Today, though, Amazon has clips of every track on the…   Read Story »

The Strokes' new single "All The Time" sounds like an old Strokes song, with its urgently metronomic rhythm and its excellently rumpled Julian Casablancas mutter-wail. And the video seems bent on…   Read Story »

Azealia Banks haters, start your engines! I fully expect that just the headline "Azealia Banks - 'Barely Legal' (The Strokes Cover)" already has some people's vitriol tanks overflowing and ready for…   Read Story »

It's finally come to this: The first straight-to-Spotify Stereogum Monthly Mix. It's the end of an era, and I'm a little sad about it! But it's a necessity in 2013, and one that will serve this…   Read Story »

Well, this is more like it. "One Way Trigger," the first song we heard from new Strokes album Comedown Machine, was a keyboards-and-falsetto curiosity, but now they're back with the new "All The…   Read Story »