{"id":54630,"date":"2025-08-08T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:55:08","slug":"the-strokes-staying-together-solely-for-financial-reasons-impacted-their-creativity-admits-julian-casablancas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54630\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strokes staying together \u201csolely for financial reasons\u201d impacted their \u201ccreativity\u201d, admits Julian Casablancas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julian Casablancas<\/a> has admitted that pressure to keep the Strokes together for financial reasons forced the band\u2019s creativity \u201cinto the background\u201d.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Julian Casablancas sets the world to rights: \u201cWe always think we\u2019re so special and beyond the old ways, but we\u2019re not\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York band haven\u2019t released any music together since dropping their sixth and latest album, \u2018The New Abnormal\u2019<\/a>, in early 2020, but Casablancas has since released music with The Voidz<\/a>, including last year\u2019s \u2018Like All Before You\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and recent EP\u00a0\u2018Me\u0328G\u0306z\u0307 \u00f8F rA\u030am\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Rolling Stone Italia<\/a>, he was asked why he chose to leave the Strokes behind in favour of recording with The Voidz<\/a>. \u201cWhen I started making music, becoming passionate about my dreams and vision, I had a very clear idea of how I wanted things to evolve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy journey with the Strokes became something different from what initially attracted me to music.\u201d He cited legacy bands like Bon Jovi<\/a> and Green Day<\/a> as evidence they could have \u201cgone on forever\u201d \u2013 and shed some light about how sensing that affected their output.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had entered a mechanism that kept us together solely for financial reasons, pushing the band\u2019s creativity into the background,\u201d Casablancas explained. \u201cSo I came to the conclusion that wasn\u2019t the way I wanted to develop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a beautiful Miles Davis quote: \u2018The real risk is not changing.\u2019 That\u2019s why I always want to feel like I\u2019m searching for something unexplored. If I make money, that\u2019s fine, but I don\u2019t want to stay still. I\u2019m not looking for security or the status quo. If someone wants to keep creating, they have to be ready for change. Even if it means the death of something they held dear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Casablancas has often expressed his dismay at performing popular Strokes songs live, <\/a>admitting that he became \u201csick\u201d of playing old hits live, saying \u201cthe music doesn\u2019t move you\u201d when playing the same tracks repeatedly in 2020.<\/p>\n

He added at the time: \u201cWhen you\u2019re growing up and imagining playing music, it is for the excitement, but the one aspect of doing it for a living that is a sadness you don\u2019t anticipate is that you play songs so much, you become sick of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hadn\u2019t played for a while. So it was still fun, but when you start playing 30 or 40 shows, the music doesn\u2019t move you. You feel phoney. To some extent, that\u2019s why I play with The Voidz. I couldn\u2019t care less about playing \u2018Last Nite.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, he opened up about why he had \u201ckind of stepped away a little bit\u201d from The Strokes<\/a> to focus on The Voidz last autumn.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s a very cool day job that I\u2019m honoured to have, so I don\u2019t feel negatively about it,\u201d the singer said. \u201cIf it was wasting so much of my time that I couldn\u2019t do anything positive, then I would. But I don\u2019t let it get to that point. At least I don\u2019t think so. I could be lying to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 2022,\u00a0Rick Rubin<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who produced \u2018The New Abnormal\u2019 \u2013\u00a0revealed that he was working on a new album with\u00a0The Strokes<\/a>, and had finished a recording session with them in Costa Rica. \u201cIt was incredible,\u201d he remembered. \u201cAnd we did that every day, playing out in the [open], and they didn\u2019t want to leave. It was, like, the best experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

During an interview with\u00a0NME\u00a0in spring 2023<\/a>, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr gave an update on the progress of The Strokes\u2019 next full-length project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [Rubin] was just so excited about where we recorded,\u201d Hammond Jr said of the producer\u2019s revelation from the previous year. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know what to say about it \u2013 I don\u2019t have any information on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like it\u2019s happening and I\u2019m hiding something. We went and did a bunch of recording. It could come out a year or two years from now \u2013 it\u2019s an unknown amount of time when it\u2019ll be finished but, yes, we are working on another record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, The Strokes announced two warm up shows ahead of their forthcoming Austin City Limits headline slot, which marks their first confirmed live performances together in 2025.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s edition of the Texas festival is due to take place on two consecutive weekends: October 3-5 and October 10-12. Three-day tickets for both editions are on sale now \u2013 buy yours here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a warm up, they\u2019ll perform two intimate shows at The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan<\/a> in Las Vegas on September 27 and the Abraham Chavez Theatre in El Paso on October 1. You can find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julian Casablancas has admitted that pressure to keep the Strokes together for financial reasons forced the band\u2019s creativity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,1645,341],"class_list":["post-54630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-indie","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}