When the Strokes return to the road next month, guitarist and co-founder Nick Valensi won’t be with the group. “Nick will be taking a temporary break from the scheduled tour, but we look forward to ...

The Strokes will embark on the Reality Awaits Tour without a founding member as the band announced that guitarist Nick Valensi is taking a “temporary break”from the summer trek. The group appeared ...

Nick Valensi, one of the original guitarists in the Strokes, is dropping out for an unspecified portion of the band’s upcoming performances. “Nick will be taking a temporary break from the scheduled ...

Julian Casablancas hates Zionism, and it's beautiful to see an alt-rock star of a certain age take a real fucking stand. He also loves to aggressively deploy Auto-Tune, and that position seems to be a ...

Robotic Chinese calligraphy systems integrate principles of traditional ink–brush art with advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and motion control to replicate the nuanced movements of human ...

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“What side you standing on?” sang Julian Casablancas, frontman of The Strokes, against the backdrop of the moment that al-Israa University, the last standing university in Gaza, was destroyed by ...

When the Strokes performed at Coachella on Saturday, the rock band used their platform to make a statement against U.S. intervention in foreign countries. They closed up their set with Future Present ...

The Strokes closed out their set at Coachella this past Saturday with a performance of their 2016 song “Oblivius” accompanied by a charged video montage detailing decades of alleged CIA-backed ...

The Strokes appeared to take aim at the U.S. government during Coachella weekend two, ending their set with a politically charged video montage. The American rock band concluded their main stage ...

The Strokes wrapped up their Coachella set Saturday night by using the festival’s massive onstage LED screens to display a political protest against foreign interventions by the U.S. Subscribe to read ...

American rock band The Strokes wrapped up their performance at Coachella Saturday night with a pointed political message. As the band finished its last song of the night, a video begins playing on the ...