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i will reblog everything related to Julian Casablancas for the rest of my life.

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by Addo SC Photography

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Were you ever able to get tickets for fortress festival?

yes!! i am so exciteddd!!

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hey so I may or may not have gotten a download of virtue. and it is definitely amazing.

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Rolling Stone Music Now - With Jeramy "Beardo" Gritter, Jacob  Bercovic & Julian Casablancas

Interviewer: Julian, I think something people would fundamentally wonder is - someone who is/was in a very famous and accomplished band - this is a different band - What does this band provide for you on a creative level that your other band doesn’t? Why do you need this outlet?

Julian: I feel like you could probably just listen to the record and maybe figure it out [laughs] I don’t know. I think that, yea it’s just, I don’t know how to answer that. Again it’s like this kinda - I think if I was completely honest it would be harmless but taken out of context by annoying media – I don’t care about what a newspaper or media headline would be but it’s just sometimes it’s more about the people you know and how it affects [them], ya know what I mean? Someone would read something taken out of context by NME, and then – Like NME can say whatever they want I don’t care but then if it’s like a friend calls me and is like “hey man I was really bummed that you –“ I don’t wanna do that. So like, Strokes are brothers, and will always be and I think that, ya know, we have a chemistry too. You play that many hours together, just that alone and you just have a communication and I don’t feel the need to, ya know, kinda shut that off for any specific reason if I have free time [laughs]. But at the same time my personal vision-quest from day one has not altered and I think that you can’t tell other people what to do. And I don’t wanna tell other people what to do. And I think that with the Voidz I think we’re on the same wavelength and with the Strokes it’s more like everyone does what they do and I think that I just kinda – I’m more about getting along and not about, ya know, tension or toxic – ya know what I mean? I don’t wanna have to disagree, ya know what I mean? I just wanna work with people you agree on and it’s not that we disagree it’s just that if I was trying to do a song like QYURRYUS I wouldn’t wanna have to convince people against their will to do it, do ya know what I mean? Not that they wouldn’t wanna do it – but maybe in the past there are things that I wanted to do, there’s many things that I wanted to do that I haven’t been able to do so I feel like I’m all for collaboration and I’m all for “best ideas in the room win” and I think to my objective judgement that was not always happening.

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Julian's "definition" for quality music

Interviewer: What are your criteria for quality in music?

Julian: Personally I look for something that elicits a strong feeling. What’s the word Brazilians use? Is it saudade? There isn’t an exact English translation, but Portuguese speakers understand saudade as a form of meta-nostalgia, a longing for a longing. One translator called it a “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist,” like how New York transplants think about the city in the 70's

Something that’s pretty and sad and powerful. I like that. But I know that’s not really objective criteria. The problem is that [musical quality] is a little mysterious and that’s why it gets scoffed at. My bigger point is more that there is music with quality that gets ignored. We don’t live in a world where Transformers is nominated for Best Picture, so why do we live in a dimension where the music equivalent of that is nominated for Grammys? I mean, how do you define quality?

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The Voidz photographed on Jan. 31, 2018 at Paul’s Cocktail Lounge in Manhattan.

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The work process on "Tyranny"

Julian Casablancas and the Voidz spent more than two years writing the album, and recorded it over seven months in a studio above New York's Strand Bookstore, usually working from 7 p.m. until sunlight. "I thought I was a perfectionist until I met Julian," says Voidz bass player Jake Bercovici. "I think we spent 20 days looking for one keyboard tone."

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Julian Casablancas at Lollapalooza Chile 2017 // by Eugenia Fuentes

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this is the julian casablancas of good luck and wellbeing. reblog within fifteen seconds to pass your exams, find inner peace, and receive approximately 3.87 USD worth of cult records merchandise. ignore to add one (1) more ridiculously layered outfit to julian’s wardrobe.

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tried copyin that paint style from OW onto julian

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legend, icon, and star. nude pink bomber jacket? ahead of his time. that watch, belt, and necklace? accessories to the nth dimension, b*tch!! that flowing, shoulder length hair? do i even need to start?? this boy murdered the whole fashion industry in a single #look from a fucking CONVERSE commercial!

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