{"id":791840,"date":"2019-01-08T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=775890"},"modified":"2019-01-08T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:07:14","slug":"flashback-the-strokes-tear-through-new-york-city-cops-in-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-the-strokes-tear-through-new-york-city-cops-in-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: The Strokes Tear Through \u2018New York City Cops\u2019 in 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Governors Ball lineup was released<\/a> earlier this week and it once again has the Strokes<\/a> headlining one of the three evenings. Amazingly enough, this will mark the third time they\u2019ve played the New York City festival in just five years. It\u2019s all the more incredible when you consider that the Strokes have played a mere 20 shows since the conclusion of their 2011 tour and haven\u2019t stepped on a stage together anywhere in nearly two years.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always like this. Back in 2001, the Strokes played well over 100 shows to promote their debut album Is This It.<\/em> They began at clubs like the Black Cat in Washington, D.C., and the Bowery Ballroom in New York, but as the hype went into overdrive they found themselves on the stage of massive European festivals playing to an ocean of screaming fans. \u201cThey\u2019re the most exciting thing I\u2019d seen since the Stone Roses,\u201d said Noel Gallagher at the time. \u201cI think they\u2019re the most important band right now in the world for what they may inspire other people to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out video right here of them playing \u201cNew York City Cops\u201d at Scotland\u2019s T in the Park where they shared the stage with Muse, James, Stereophonics and David Gray. The Strokes hadn\u2019t even released Is This It<\/em> yet, but the hysteria around them was already overwhelming. The album was supposed to come out in America in late September, but the date was pushed back following the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. Not wanting to release a song with a chorus that states \u201cNew York City cops \u2026 they ain\u2019t too smart\u201d after so many of them died trying to save lives in the Twin Towers, the song was taken off the U.S. album and replaced with \u201cWhen It Started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years after their breakthrough year, Rolling Stone<\/em> called them \u201cthe new kings of rock\u201d in a cover story, but they were soon hobbled by changing musical tastes, Julian Casablancas<\/a>\u2019 severe drinking problem and Albert Hammond Jr.\u2019s heroin addiction. After their 2011 tour in support of Angles<\/em> they basically gave up on the whole idea of sustained roadwork in favor of very, very brief festival runs most every summer as they devote the majority of their time and attention to various side projects. (It could be argued that, at least to Casablancas, the Strokes are now the side project and the Voidz are his primary band.)<\/p>\n

The last time the Strokes did a show was April 2nd, 2017, at Lollapalooza Chile and the set list featured 10 of the 11 songs from Is this It<\/em> (\u201cAlone, Together\u201d was the only one they didn\u2019t do) and not a single tune from their two most recent albums. It\u2019s unclear if they plan on making another album, but they are supposedly going on a \u201cglobal comeback\u201d tour this year. So far, that seems to just mean hitting the European festival circuit and Governors Ball. This isn\u2019t the future many foresaw back in 2001, but considering everything they\u2019ve endured it\u2019s a small miracle the original lineup is still intact and playing shows at all.<\/p>\n

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The Governors Ball lineup was released earlier this week and it once again has the Strokes headlining one of the three evenings. Amazingly enough, this will mark the third time they\u2019ve played the New York City festival in just five years. It\u2019s all the more incredible when you consider that the Strokes have played a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 04:36:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}