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Watch The Strokes dust off live rarities at Kina Collins benefit gig in Chicago

The Strokes revived some live rarities during a benefit concert for Chicago congressional candidate Kina Collins over the weekend.The New York indie legends performed at Credit Union 1 Arena on Friday (March 8), the second time they have staged a gig to support Democrat candidate Collins, following a 2022 event.This weekend’s show took place on Collins’ birthday and saw Julian Casablancas and co. dust off some rare live tracks.The setlist included ‘You Talk Way Too Much’ from 2003’s ‘Room on Fire’, performed live for the first time since 2015, and ‘The Way It Is’ for the first time since 2019, along with ‘Drag Queen’ from their 2016 EP ‘Future Present Past’ for the first time since 2017.You can check out footage of the full set below.The set also included performances of ‘The Adults Are Talking’, ‘Last Nite’, ‘Reptilia’, ‘Someday’ and more.In an Instagram post shared after the performance, the band wrote: “Thank you Chicago – Vote for Kina on March 19 (or during early voting).
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Pop Indie The 1975’s Matty Healy hits out at Julian Casablancas’ Malaysia LGBTQ stance criticism as “bizarre mangling of colonial identity politics”
The 1975‘s Matty Healy has hit out at The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas‘ comments about their LGBTQ+ stance in Malaysia.It comes after the 1975 were banned from Malaysia after their set was cut short during day one of the Good Vibes Festival on July 21, when Healy criticised the Malaysian government for anti-LGBTQ laws during their headlining set.Healy also kissed bandmate and bassist Ross MacDonald on the lips onstage before their set was cut short.The cancellation resulted in The Strokes’ set being pulled from Good Vibes and led to Casablancas sharing his own thoughts on Instagram.He wrote at the time: “it def helped the white outsider awareness yes, for sure… i felt the same. had no idea.
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