Stroke Me, Baby
Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., Fabrizio Moretti, Nikolai Fraiture and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes performed at the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G launch event on April 20 in Beverly Hills.
“I guess me personally, I prefer playing new songs, but the crowd prefers old songs, reaction-wise,” singer Julian Casablancas told MTV News. “So it’s always weird ’cause you could play a song that’s mind-blowing and they’d just be like ‘wow,’ shedding a tear, but they’ll be silent. So you’ll think, ‘That sucks and we’ll never do that again.’ And then you play like an old hit that you played a thousand times, it’s kind of boring, but they’re loving it. So you’re like, ‘Let’s do that!’ “
The Strokes spent their weekend performing it in front of tens of thousands of sunburned bodies at the Coachella music Festival in California, (check out videos below), and they served some action last night on Conan, (check out the video below).
