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America’s Most Wanted | NME

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Picking a path through the parties, the girls and the complete craziness of it all, NME parks itself poolside for 24hrs with The Strokes. Julian Casablancas pulls a pack of Malboro Lights from his white suit jacket pocket and sparks up under the spotlights. Here in smoke Free Los Angeles that’s the kind of behaviour that can get a guy arrested, but Julian’s not one to worry about that. He exhales. Girls scream. “Fucking A!” he laughs. Fucking A, indeed. It’s 11.40pm. Half an hour ago, he and the rest of The Strokes were pacing in their dressing room above The Troubadour as the long sold-out venue filled to burst with 800 of the city’s luckiest (including a guestlist comprising Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Keanu Reeves, Joe Strummer, Hole and Blondie).. It may be the band’s first headline LA show, but they knew they had to deliver or die. They did not die. In fact, one veteran LA journalist enthuses to NME afterwards that he cannot recall a more rapturously received debut show in this ci

America’s Most Wanted by Ted Kessler Picking a path through the parties, the girls and the complete craziness of it all, NME parks itself poolside for 24hrs with The Strokes. Julian Casablancas pulls a pack of Malboro Lights from his white suit jacket pocket and sparks up under the spotlights. Here in smoke Free Los Angeles that’s the kind of behaviour that can get a guy arrested, but Julian’s not one to worry about that. He exhales. Girls scream. “Fucking A!” he laughs. Fucking A, indeed. It’s 11.40pm. Half an hour ago, he and the rest of The Strokes were pacing in their dressing room…

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