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While the lead singer is emoting, or not, the band is grooving with a ruthless efficiency. Is This It was criticized for mining riffs from Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend; I told you there were many reasons to hate these guys) bangs out a snare fill that would make the Zeppelins' John Bonham bolt upright in his grave. But the Strokes don't agonize over their influences; they synthesize them. And songs like 12:51 and Between Love & Hate...
Room on Fire reaches its peak with the tender midtempo ballad Under Control. It opens with Moretti's Zeppelin trick, takes off on Hammond's buoyant lead strumming and moves with the melodic sashay of a Bob Marley hit. Over the top of it all is Casablancas, going on about a relationship, of course. He sings, "I don't want to change your mind/I don't want to change the world/I just want to watch it go by." And if the Strokes want to look good doing it? I suppose that's excusable...
...rock-'n'-roll Bogart. While the lead singer is emoting, or not, the band is grooving with a ruthless efficiency. Is This It was criticized for mining riffs from Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend; I told you there were many reasons to hate them) bangs out a snare fill that would make Led Zeppelin's John Bonham sit bolt upright in his grave. But the Strokes don't agonize over their influences, they synthesize them, and songs like...
...appearance at the Lampoon last Wednesday proved them to be surprisingly accessible: The band members took time to chat and pose for photos with onlookers in addition to their go-karting stunts in the streets of Cambridge. Guitarist Nick Valensi snapped at fans with his camera while drummer Fabrizzio Moretti lit a cigarette for a fan. “I applied to come to Harvard and they didn’t accept me,” admitted Moretti freely to a Crimson reporter...
...drummer Fabrizio Moretti said he was happy to be lionized in Cambridge...