Strokes Front Man Preps Solo Release

Julian Casablancas, front man of The Strokes, is all set to release a solo album entitled Phrazes for the Young. Confirmed track titles include "River of Brake Lights," "Glass" and "Ludlow St." For an album preview check out Julian's website.

We also hear there are plans for a solo tour in the pipeline too. Wonder how this affects the Strokes' upcoming release and tour schedule? I also find it curious that Fabrizio felt the process was important enough to leave his Little Joy bandmates high and dry on their most recent tour. But Casablancas' record is much anticipated and buzzworthy so this will probably be willingly overlooked by the buzz music-consuming masses. And if it's half as good as his Lonely Island guest spot, we'll be right there with them.

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Giving You What You Want

And continuing with the Amanda Blank obsession, I give you her blog. She doesn't update near as much as we do, but she has a pretty sweet video vignette posted from her recent tour with Santigold (which was phenomenal or at least the Dallas date was). Glad you guys love her as much as we do, but you're going to have to wait a bit longer for that debut album. It's been pushed back to August 4th. What a tease!

~Jenn

I Might Like The Remix Better

Amanda Blank's "Might Like You Better" that we posted late last week and subsequently became one of the most downloaded tracks to appear on SubEx has now gotten the remix treatment from somewhat unknown New York DJ Radio Krome. While he doesn't go overboard with tons of effects or samples which might have overcomplicated the track, he does manage to flesh it out a bit so that it doesn't sound like a Peaches b-side. The added synths also make dancing to Blank's filthy rapping a little more imaginable.

MP3: Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Radio Krome Remix)

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Free Stuff: The Dead Weather Edition

The Dead Weather's breakthrough debut disc officially releases today, and we've got a nice little prize pack to giveaway to celebrate. The package includes 1 "Treat Me Like Your Mother" 7'' vinyl, 1 "Horehound" CD, and 1 Dead Weather poster. Not bad, eh? First person to email me with "You better learn to shake hands" in the subject line gets the whole shebang.

Congrats to our winner.

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Album Preview: The Dead Weather - Horehound

Like everything he's touched before, the Dead Weather is drawing myriads of comparisons to Jack White's bread and butter the White Stripes, and while the Icky Thump-ish guitar/keyboard tones of the two singles (Hang You From the Heavens and Treat Me Like Your Mother) do little to set from White's past projects, it is hard not to listen to the remaining tracks without noticing the group's temerity. As unusual as it may seem for White to start a supergroup without assuming fronting duties but Alison Mosshart (The Kills) proves she is more than capable. Sure her timbre is reminiscent of White's, but her intonation is so much ballsier. "Come over here pony I wanna climb up on top of you" she implores on the Dylan tune New Pony and you not only feel suddenly obliged to give her a ride, you are afraid to think what might happen if you don't. Aside from the instrumental track 3 Birds which comes off like a live studio jam added in at the last minute as filler, the remaining tracks on the disc are murderously dark and heavy gems. While "Horehound" still manages to retain the garagey-blues sensabilities of The Kills/White Stripes, it goes a step further and really demonstrates what happens when the blues get mean.

It's really one of the best overall discs I've heard so far this year, buy it here.

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LOLCORNELL of the Week

I am somewhat saddened that after today the Conversations With Cornell comic strip (and perhaps the lolz as well) will be going on hiatus until further notice (pending Chris Cornell doing anything newsworthy or making more absurd career moves in the near future). If any fans of the lolcornell concept want to keep the Monday tradition alive, I will gladly post any lolz sent to subservientexperiment@gmail.com and as always the lolcornell archive will still be available via that link over in the right sidebar.

In other news, I guess this opens up a slot for a new regular feature on the blog, so if there is anything you want to see send us your ideas and we'll do our darndest to make them happen.

(comic courtesy of Al Byrne)

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Down the Rabbit Hole

No time for a full post at the moment, but still wanted to check in and let you know you can now follow us on Twitter @SubExBlog. I recommend you do it and find out just how uninteresting we really are in our personal lives when we're not blogging!

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