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Casablancas’s different strokes

Julian Casablancas, frontman of the Strokes, has a new solo album. Julian Casablancas, frontman of the Strokes, has a new solo album. (williams + hirakawa)
By Luke O’Neil
Globe Correspondent / January 7, 2010

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The Strokes took us on a guided tour of turn-of-the-millennium New York City on the era-defining 2001 album “Is This It,’’ detailing the scuzzy dives, beer-soaked basement clubs, and tales of fleeting romance amid the squalor. So it seemed apt that Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas would be ambling through Manhattan streets while we spoke on the phone. The city’s soundtrack ... (Full article: 668 words)

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