Brooklyn Vegan — We mentioned that Julian Casablancas was featured on the soundtrack for HBO's Vinyl. Now his contribution has been released, and it's a cover of the Velvet Underground classic "Run Run Run." You can listen to the fuzzy, faithful cover... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Har Mar Superstar (aka talented wildman Sean Tillman) will release his new album, Best Summer Ever, on Julian Casablancas' Cult Records on April 15. Casablancas produced it, and it features contributions from Karen O, Matt Sweeney (Cha... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Rob Sperry-Fromm There had been rumors of a collaboration between Julian Casablancas and Savages' Jehnny Beth for a while now, and now the pair has released a single and a video to go along with it. The song is... more info

Stereogum — Julian Casablancas, from the Strokes, and Jehnny Beth, from Savages, are two of the most charismatic rock frontpeople to come along this century. And as we learned last month, they’ve now teamed up to cover “Boy/Girl,” a song originally recorde... more info

Stereogum — The DC/LA project MISUN (pronounced ‘me•sun’) play a bubbly, quietly chaotic brand of electro-pop that they’ve taken to calling “aquawave.” When we chatted with them during CMJ a few years back, Misun Wojcik spoke explicitly about an undy... more info

Stereogum — Back in 1983, the Danish punk band Sort Sol (AKA Sods) released Dagger & Guitar. The album featured a Lydia Lunch collaboration alternately titled “Boy/Girl” or “Boy-Girl.” Thirty-two years later, in April 2015, we learned that the Strokes’... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Debi Del Grande Julian Casablancas / Die Antwoord / Coathangers / FIDLAR / Growlers Highlights from the main stage, appropriately named Beach Goth, included FIDLAR, a party punk band that sings mostly about drinking beer and not doing... more info

Stereogum — The fourth installment of the Growlers’ Beach Goth festival went down this past weekend at Orange County’s Observatory Grounds. Grimes headlined the fest with the Growlers and Die Antwoord, and she debuted new material from her highly anticipated... more info

Stereogum — Julian Casablancas played a set with the Voidz at the Beach Goth 4 festival over the weekend, and they debuted a cover of Milli Vanilli’s late ’80s track “Girl You Know It’s True.” Casablancas apparently introduced it as a new song and, jud... more info

Stereogum — Just a few months ago, Albert Hammond Jr. said that the Strokes have no plans to record any new music, but during the band’s headlining set at Washington, DC’s first-ever Landmark Music Festival tonight, frontman Julian Casablancas reportedly rev... more info