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4. The next big thing

Would it be the White Stripes? The Strokes?

Days of our nights

Would it be the White Stripes? The Strokes?

Search and Destroy

The always-colorful Icarus Line take aim at their contemporaries.

CD Reviews

The always-colorful Icarus Line take aim at their contemporaries.

Little Joy

Tuesday, September 30

Black Mountain Returns From the Future

And Sage pays a visit from the past.

1990s

Sunday, November 4

Fall Music Calendar

Sunday, November 4

764-HERO bid adieu; plus news on Beck, Bowie, and more.

Sunday, November 4

Room on Fire

Room on fire.

Happy Accident

All of a sudden, the Strokes' guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. had a solo album in his hands.

Repo Men

Meeting the Strokes on the other side of rock-is-back hype.

Crystal Ball

Predicting local restaurant trends for 2006.

Art for Art's Sake

New Yorkers Lansing-Dreiden triangulate rock, visual art, and the fine art of anonymity.

Factory Ready

The Stills live up to their own moniker.

Good Songs From Useless Albums

The Stills live up to their own moniker.

The Sixth Stroke

Gordon Raphael left Seattle to get famous. Now he isas the Strokes' producer.

Wheels of Steal

Seattle mash-up maestro DJ Lance Lockarm plays connect-the-dots with pop history.

Strokes make a video; Doors make a comeback, sorta.

Seattle mash-up maestro DJ Lance Lockarm plays connect-the-dots with pop history.

Days of our nights

Seattle mash-up maestro DJ Lance Lockarm plays connect-the-dots with pop history.

Top 10 Lists

Our critics pick their 2001 favorites.

Days of our nights

Our critics pick their 2001 favorites.

The hype is right

One night with the Strokes might convert you, too.

Real live touring bands, oh my.

One night with the Strokes might convert you, too.

Goin' on Tonight!

If I were in Seattle this evening, I'd be checking out Noise for the Needy's Festival Season Kickoff Party at Woodshed Studios (located on the corner of Fairview and East Thomas). The show tonight features DJ Chrispo (Studio 66), Truckasaurus, Erik Blood, Exohxo, Origami Ghosts and Solomon Giorgio. ... More >>

Q&A: The Strokes' Julian Casablancas on Going Solo, (Almost) Being a Dad, and the Possibility of His Child Being a Yankees Fan

Julian Casablancas plays Showbox at the Market on Sunday night.​Julian Casablancas wasn't planning to make a solo album when The Strokes went on hiatus at the end of 2006. In fact, the lead singer and primary songwriter of the New York-based band that helped put the stomp on rap-rock in the e ... More >>

Uh, Is This It?: 10 Flagrantly Wrong Things About NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade

​I personally wouldn't touch compiling a Best Albums of the Decade list with a ten-foot pole; besides feeling weird about ranking an unfathomable amount of musical releases over a ten year period and having my own eclectic yet deeply biased taste, I was in seventh grade at the turn of the cent ... More >>

Q&A: Julian Casablancas on the Yankees, The Strokes, and Fatherhood

“I thought things were going to change a little bit in our infrastructure, but I didn't foresee all the solo detours.”

Julian Casablancas

“I thought things were going to change a little bit in our infrastructure, but I didn't foresee all the solo detours.”

This Week's Issue: How KBCS Is Staying Alive, How Julian Casablancas Is Preparing For Fatherhood, and The Real Crooked Vultures

​-- Leading off this week's issue in print--and online over here-- Brian J. Barr goes long on KBCS's balancing act: creating programming that will retain audiences for more than a couple hours at a time, and engaging those listeners who were particularly fond of the shorter, niche programming ... More >>

Tonight: Julian Casablancas, the Swell Season

​Julian Casablancas, Strange Boys and Rainbow Arabia.at Showbox at the Market, 7 p.m., $22, all ages The Strokes' frontman releases a solo album. The Swell Season at the Paramount Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $32, all ages Actors who played a couple in a movie get together in real life, start a ban ... More >>

Last Night: Julian Casablancas Brings More Than Just a Pretty Face to The Showbox

Julian Casablancas played at The Showbox at the Market on Sunday, November 22. ​Seeing an artist who is most known for his work with a band strike out as a solo artist is always a really curious prospect. It really wasn't that long ago that The Strokes were one of the largest bands in the worl ... More >>

Karaoke Korrespondent: KJR Goes Home to the Little Red Hen

​Every Wednesday morning, Reverb Karaoke Korrespondent Jeff Roman files a dispatch from some corner of the karaoke universe. This week, he recaps a visit to Greenlake's Little Red Hen. The Little Red Hen was my home for karaoke last summer. I went on a two month stretch where I was there ever ... More >>

From the Basement: Blender's 50 Greatest Albums of 2001, Featuring Tenacious D, LFO, and Elton John

​Remember the music of 2001? Remember BLENDER!?!? Remember when it was called "Maxim Presents BLENDER!?" I'm in the process of moving, and like anyone else who's ever subscribed to a magazine, I've squirreled a few copies away for safe keeping. Among the mags I haven't tossed, and don't think ... More >>

Karaoke and Line Dancing

​Remember the music of 2001? Remember BLENDER!?!? Remember when it was called "Maxim Presents BLENDER!?" I'm in the process of moving, and like anyone else who's ever subscribed to a magazine, I've squirreled a few copies away for safe keeping. Among the mags I haven't tossed, and don't think ... More >>

Tonight: Hockey's All-Ages Show at the Vera Project

Hockey​Hockey, Asa Ransom at the Vera Project, 7:30 p.m., $9, all ages From this week's Short List: Portland's Hockey is already a huge hit in the UK, and it probably won't be long before we follow suit. The quartet's debut, Mind Chaos, might be something of a cross between the Talking Heads ... More >>

Hockey

Hockey​Hockey, Asa Ransom at the Vera Project, 7:30 p.m., $9, all ages From this week's Short List: Portland's Hockey is already a huge hit in the UK, and it probably won't be long before we follow suit. The quartet's debut, Mind Chaos, might be something of a cross between the Talking Heads ... More >>

Free Energy

Hockey​Hockey, Asa Ransom at the Vera Project, 7:30 p.m., $9, all ages From this week's Short List: Portland's Hockey is already a huge hit in the UK, and it probably won't be long before we follow suit. The quartet's debut, Mind Chaos, might be something of a cross between the Talking Heads ... More >>

The Strokes Confirmed To Headline Lollapalooza 2010

Frank Ockenfels​The Chicago Tribune just confirmed that The Strokes will be headlining this year's Lollapalooza Festival, which will take place on August 6-8 at Grant Park in Chicago. Lollapalooza will join four other headlining festival dates for the Strokes - the European Rockness, South Sid ... More >>

Neon Trees

Frank Ockenfels​The Chicago Tribune just confirmed that The Strokes will be headlining this year's Lollapalooza Festival, which will take place on August 6-8 at Grant Park in Chicago. Lollapalooza will join four other headlining festival dates for the Strokes - the European Rockness, South Sid ... More >>

The Strokes, and 6 Other Bands Who Should Have Hung It Up After Album Number 1

​Musicians rarely know to quit while they're ahead (if they do it's often because they die, like Jeff Buckley or Biggie). Of course, there are exceptions--James Murphy recently announced LCD Soundsystem's calling it quits because he doesn't want to be a geriatric rocker, and Neutral Milk Hotel ... More >>

What's The Indie Song of Summer 2011?

​Our friends over at Stereogum have compiled what they believe to have been the top indie jam of the summer since 2001: The Strokes - "Last Nite" 2002: The White Stripes - "Fell In Love With A Girl" 2003: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Date With The Night" 2004: The Killers - "Somebody Told Me" 2005: LCD ... More >>

Heems of Das Racist Flips the Strokes' Too-Hot-for-9/11-America Track "New York City Cops" For Stereogum Tribute Stroked

The Strokes song "New York City Cops" was supposed to come out on the band's brilliantly laconic slack rock debut Is This It, but its chorus of "New York City cops/they ain't too smart" was deemed too insensitive to the city's first responders in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, and the song was rele ... More >>

Is This It? 1991 Had Nirvana, 2001 Had the Strokes--What Does 2011 Get?

Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a review by Jon Caramanica comparing the recently released tribute albums to Nirvana and the Strokes--Spin's Newermind and Stereogum's Stroked, respectively, both of which are free downloads--and the article got me thinking: If 1991 had Nirvana, and 2001 h ... More >>

Photos & Perspective: PJ20 Was a Rain-Soaked Birthday Party of the Highest Caliber

Laura MusselmanPJ 20 went down Sept. 3 and 4 at Alpine Valle Amphitheater in Wisconsin. ​This post is part of a series in which longtime Seattle music photographer Laura Musselman provides her thoughts on what it was like to be at, and shoot, a show. By Laura Musselman PJ20 was not so much a ... More >>

Ambulance

Laura MusselmanPJ 20 went down Sept. 3 and 4 at Alpine Valle Amphitheater in Wisconsin. ​This post is part of a series in which longtime Seattle music photographer Laura Musselman provides her thoughts on what it was like to be at, and shoot, a show. By Laura Musselman PJ20 was not so much a ... More >>

Two Lights One Fart, or: Making a Fourth-Rate Coldplay Song is Really Expensive, You Guys!

The J.Crew catalogue called, they said they're vomiting blood all over themselves​So, last week, Time.com published an article entitled "Wanna Be a Rock Star? You'll Need $100,000," written by Abner and Harper Willis, two brothers who would very much like their band Two Lights to be wildly fam ... More >>