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Strokes Guitarist Goes Solo |
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
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 Albert Hammond Jr. - guitarist with The Strokes releases a single Everyone Gets A Star
exclusively through iTunes on Monday September 4th. The single is taken from
Albert Hammond Jr’s debut solo album, Yours To Keep, released through Rough
Trade Records on Monday 9th October.
You can hear the track and other album tracks on Albert's
Myspace page:http://www.myspace.com/alberthammondjr
Yours To Keep was recorded at New York’s Electric Ladyland
Studios with Hammond Jr. as guitarist and vocalist together with Josh Lattanzi
on bass and Matt Romano on drums.
That basic trio has been augmented on various tracks by
Julian Casablancas, Jody Porter (Fountains of Wayne), Ben Kweller, Sean Lennon,
Mikki James, Sammy James Jr. and Ryan Gentles.
The album was produced by Greg Lattimer who first came to
attention as vocalist with New York’s
Thin Lizard Dawn in the late-Nineties. The album comes in addition to Hammond
Jr’s work with The Strokes he is not leaving the band.
The album track listing is:
Cartoon Music for Superheroes (Goodnight)
In Transit
Everyone Gets a Star
Bright Young Thing
Blue Skies
Back To The 101
Call An Ambulance
Scared
Holiday
Hard To Live (In The City)
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