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While taking some time off from the road this summer, the Strokes have begun pre-production on a handful of new songs with longtime producer Gordon Raphael. And while manager Ryan Gentles tells Billboard.com a new album isn’t likely to be ready until spring 2005 at the earliest, the sessions are set to unfold in an entirely new way.
“The recording of this record will be much different from the last two,” he says. “They’re not working on any deadline whatsoever and have built a recording studio into their rehearsal space so that they can just record everything that they do over the next 8 to 10 months, and shape the new songs for the next record out of that.”
The quintet will return to the live stage Saturday (July 10) at Ireland’s Oxegen Festival, to be followed the next day by the U.K.’s T in the Park Festival. Also on tap is an Aug. 14 performance at Little Steven’s International Underground Garage event on New York’s Randall’s Island an Aug. 21-22 appearances at the U.K.’s V2004 Festival.
Afterward, studio time will dominate the schedule. “They might bow out once or twice to do a show here and there just around New York for the band to try out new material,” Gentles says, “and we’re entertaining the idea of doing a brief stint in South America before the end of the year since we’ve never toured there yet.”
Source billboard.com.
Apple Computer will make its iPod mini digital-music player available internationally starting July 24. A spokesperson for the computer giant says prices will vary for each territory. The mini portable player will be available for
