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‘Last Nite by the Strokes is dead to me’: Julian Casablancas’s honest playlist

The indie star clears dancefloors with funereal classical music and does Frank Sinatra at karaoke, but what is his unlikely bedroom soundtrack?

There were a couple of record stores near where I lived in New York where they sold CD players, boom boxes, stereo equipment and CDs. You could be in an underground basement or Urban Outfitters and hear Tew Limed Gelaye by Mahmoud Ahmed, which I think would go down well at a party. There are some others like Reptilia, Hard to Explain, Someday, Take It Or Leave it, New York City Cops that are comparable in terms of crowd reaction that I’m not quite as sick of.

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