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The Strokes Announce New Single, More Dates

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The Strokes Announce New Single, More Dates

James Gregory reports:
Once again reminding us that they saved their sophomore slump for their third album, the Strokes recently announced the selection of the latest single from First Impressions of Earth: the LP's leadoff track, "You Only Live Once".

According to NME, the single will be released in the UK on July 10, and according to an email from manager Ryan Gentles, there will be "VERY special guest(s) appearing on the b-side."

While we've got Encyclopedia Brown on the trail of said mystery guest(s), a video for the track has already been completed, once again piloted by director Sam Bayer, who previously helmed the gritty (by Strokes standards) clip for "Heart in a Cage".

The video is expected to premiere in the UK tomorrow, May 24, with U.S. rotation starting sometime in June (although the band is already begging fans to start requesting it-- c'mon guys, are sales really that bad?). Those eager for a sneak peek can head over to the Strokes website, where stills from the shoot reveal the band claustrophobically performing in a room piped full of mud. Dirrrty.

Finally, the Strokes are squeezing in another batch of U.S. dates before they head off on a European tour. A club tour of Australia and New Zealand is in the works for August, and a trip to Mexico is tentatively scheduled for early September.

I wanna be forgotten:

05-23 Birmingham, AL - Sloss Furnace *
05-25 North Charleston, SC - Centre Stage @ The Plex *
05-26 Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium *
05-28 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion (HFStival)
06-10 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre (Live 105 BFD)
06-11 Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl (KJEE Summer Round Up)
06-16 Hultsfred, Sweden - Hultsfred Festival
06-18 Manchester, England - Lancashire County Cricket Club #
06-21 London, England - Hyde Park (Wireless Festival)
06-23 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
06-24 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-26 Cologne, Germany - Palladium
06-27 Berlin, Germany - Berlin Arena
06-29 Paris, France - Le Zenith
06-30 Belfort, France - Les Eurockeennes Festival
07-02 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-04 Moscow, Russia - DK Gorbunova
07-08 Naas, Ireland - Punchestown Racecourse (Oxegen Festival)
07-09 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park
07-11 Amsterdam, Holland - Heineken Music Hall
07-13 St. Polten, Austria - Vaz
07-14 Montreux, Switzerland - Miles Davis Hall (Montreux Jazz Festival)
07-15 Turin, Italy - Traffic Festival
07-17 Lyon, France - Antique Theatre
07-18 Nice, France - Theatre de Verdure
07-21 Benicassim, Spain - Benicassim Festival
07-22 Lisbon, Portugal - Lisboa Soundz Festival
07-30 Mt. Fuji, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival

* with Apples in Stereo
# with Foo Fighters
-tom

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They're opening for Tom Petty at the Bowl. I heard tix are like $80... :?
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Annie!!!!
I saw them at a benefit show for Joey Ramone, back in May. We made it part of our New York trip....they played two songs and went off stage....people paid over $200 to see them and that's all they got....it was disappointing. Needless to say, they didn't get good reviews...
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The sheep should have rioted and torn the place to pieces....but no,they bleat they're way home bitching and angrily jerk off they're sorrows.A lot of artists are spoiled fucking shits with NO concept how fuckin hard it is to make money with broken backs and blistered hands...I say riot..rally that!I would have.
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