Julian Casablancas/Tanlines/Telepathe @ Terminal 5, NYC 1/14/10

"Let's hear it for New Yoooooork." Early on in Julian's set at Terminal 5 last night, the first of a pair at that Hell's Kitchen hellhole, he began paying props to Alicia Keys's performance on SNL. "Both songs," he said, but it was "Empire State Of Mind" he kept teasing. It was the solo Stroke's "first show in New York in a long fucking time," and though it's often difficult to pin down his mood through that ever-present onstage mumble -- sober or not -- clearly he was glad to be home. Julian...

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