Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Julian / Blood Orange (via Jeanette Diaz) Julian Casablancas + The Voidz brought their tour to the Strokes frontman's former hometown of NYC at Hammerstein Ballroom last night (11/25) in support of their zany debut..... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Blood Orange at Central Park in August (more by Amanda Hatfield) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, Shabazz Palaces, Blood Orange @ Hammerstein... more info

Stereogum — The Strokes are no strangers to having their songs appear in commercials, but their latest placement is especially telling after Julian Casablancas made it clear last month that he was over New York City (and brunch) and that he had just moved out to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Blood Orange at FYF 2014 (more by Adela Loconte) As mentioned, Julian Casablancas + Voidz are currently on their tour, and will play NYC next week at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom on 11/25 with Shabazz Palaces. Added to that bill is... more info

Stereogum — Julian Casablancas is kind of the anti-Taylor Swift, isn’t he? She just moved to Tribeca — making her neighbors with, like, Jay Z, Beyoncé, and Blue Ivy — and is so stoked on it that she’s Instagramming pictures of lattés and serving as NYC... more info

Time — The Strokes frontman on getting sober, lefty politics and his wild album with a new band more info

Stereogum — Whatever you want to call this ongoing hubbub about Julian Casablancas and his disdain for New York City brunch crowds and/or hotshot GQ reporters — Brunchgate? Brunchghazi? — consider today’s tweets the Strokes and Voidz frontman’s last word... more info

NME — Frontman admits he thinks that 2006's 'First Impressions Of Earth' was "a little simple" more info

Stereogum — Last month, my friend Zach Baron wrote what I thought was a warm and empathetic GQ profile of Julian Casablancas, whose album Tyranny was about to come out. In the story, after some prodding, Casablancas talked a bit about why he’d moved out of New... more info

NME — Strokes singer says new side-project is intended to help popularise 'edgier, interesting stuff' more info