Video: the strokes - take it or leave it on letterman

Dear God, If you're listening , please let the new Strokes album be the best of the year and their careers. I love Teen Dream and that new Joanna Newsom record 's the right kind of rabbit hole and I realize this must seem like a bonehead thing to hope for considering how heavy life-lifting can get here and there, but...maybe it's not so ridiculous. Maybe it makes total sense to you, too. That would be oddly comforting. Your friend, David PS Write back soon. There are [...]

Filed under: The Hit List There are dozens of late-night talk show performances every week, so picking the 10 best from this decade was no easy feat. Plenty of great bands invariably didn't make the cut, and plenty of great performances didn't quite have that "wow" factor. The following -- be it how it made us forget we were watching the tail end of a TV show, induced goose bumps or, in the case of the White Stripes clip, encouraged us to immediately take up the guitar -- blew us away. [Editor's note: [...]

Julian Casablancas: Phrazes for the Young • MYSPACE • OFFICIAL SITE If Julian Casablancas' new CD, Phrazes for the Young , was a movie, I might have walked out midway. The once-and-future lead singer of The Strokes' first solo record starts out well – a trio of up-tempo, surprisingly groovy songs, culminating in the new wave-ish, new-sounding lead single "11th Dimension." But it goes off the rails from [...]

I sometimes forget how awesome this band is/was. I came across this video and was blown away once again. I think two of my friends have seen the band live, and I wish I had seen them but have never had the chance. Maybe they aren't kaput ...

• The Strokes - Take It Or Leave It

Enjoy Is This It 's closing track, 'Take It Or Leave It', below. MP3 at bottom of post. MP3: The Strokes - New York City Cops