The Voidz: Last News

Julian Casablancas and The Voidz have announced a one-off London show for 2025 – you can find all the details below.The band are due to play at The Troxy in the capital on Saturday March 8 in support of their third and latest album, 2024’s ‘Like All Before You’.This will follow a newly confirmed appearance at Les InRocks Festival in Paris on Wednesday March 5. The Voidz are scheduled to perform at Le Centquatre in the French Capital.Tickets for the upcoming London gig go on general sale at 11am GMT this Friday (December 6) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.

IDLES have announced the special guests for their homecoming Bristol Block Party, a two-night festival in August.In November, the punk band revealed plans for the event, which will see them take over Queen Square on August 1 and 2, the first mass live music concerts at the site in over two decades. Find any remaining tickets here.Now, the full line-ups have been unveiled for both nights.

Julian Casablancas + The Voidz have shared their futuristic new single ‘Blue Demon’ from their forthcoming EP.The track features The Voidz’s signature synth-heavy experimental beats along with Casablancas’ auto-tuned heavy vocals singing: “And In The Name Of Our Lord & Savior We Fight Each Other / Like Two Brothers / Father Forgive Me Intifada / Too Many Babies / Dead Like Their Mothers,” describing a conflict.‘Blue Demon’ was teased on the band’s official Instagram account with a couple of posts created by AI. The first clip sees a news reporter reading a letter from Tron Cole – the band’s “former social media manager” – who threatened to leak the band’s new music.According to a press release, the track is the first taster from The Voidz’s forthcoming EP which is set for release sometime later this spring.

The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has revealed that he’s refused to vote for the US Presidential elections – see what he had to say below.In 2020, along with the rest of The Strokes, Casablancas backed Bernie Sanders, who lost to Joe Biden in the race to become the Democratic party’s candidate for the presidency. The band performed at a rally for the Democrat candidate at the beginning of the year and later called for Biden to choose Sanders as his running mate in the election.Now, on the day of the US Presidential elections – which is being contested mainly by Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris – Casablancas shared a a post on social media that revealed his refusal to vote.In the post, he shared an image of an “I protested” badge.

The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has said that the band’s classic hit single ‘Last Nite’ is “pretty dead to me”.Casablancas has often expressed his dismay at performing the band’s more popular, older songs in the past, admitting that he became “sick” of playing old hits live, saying “the music doesn’t move you” when playing the same tracks repeatedly in 2020.He added at the time: “When you’re growing up and imagining playing music, it is for the excitement, but the one aspect of doing it for a living that is a sadness you don’t anticipate is that you play songs so much, you become sick of them.“We hadn’t played for a while. So it was still fun, but when you start playing 30 or 40 shows, the music doesn’t move you.

Julian Casablancas has shared that he feels no strong affinity to either party in the upcoming US election, referring to the candidates as “both sides of the same corporate coin”.In 2020, along with the rest of The Strokes, Casablancas backed Bernie Sanders, who lost to Joe Biden in the race to become the Democratic party’s candidate for the presidency. The band performed at a rally for the Democrat candidate at the beginning of the year and later called for Biden to choose Sanders as his running mate in the election.When asked how he felt about the upcoming US presidential election, however, the singer said: “Nothing”.

The Voidz have announced their third album ‘Like All Before You’ and have shared the LP’s opening track ‘Overture’.Earlier this week, Julian Casablancas and co. shared a cryptic teaser video for the album which saw the band reveal the release date for the record and was soundtracked by an instrumental ‘Overture’ filled with moody synths, which serves as the album’s opening track.Now, the band have announced their third album ‘Like All Before You’ is set for digital release on September 20 and will be available on Vinyl starting October 18 (you can pre-save it here). ‘Like All Before You’ was created at the band’s home studio in Venice, CA as well as the renowned Vox Studios in Los Angeles.The LP sees the band collaborate with producers Ivan Wayman (Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, The War on Drugs), Justin Raisen (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kim Gordon, Yves Tumor), and SAD PONY (Lil Yachty, Drake) on several tracks.1. ‘Overture’2. ‘Square Wave’3. ‘Prophecy of The Dragon’4. ‘7 Horses’5. ‘Spectral Analysis’6. ‘Flexorcist’7. ‘Perseverance–1C2S’8. ‘All The Same’9. ‘When Will The Time of These Bastards End’10. ‘Walk Off (Outro)’Both ‘Flexorcist’, which the band put out near Halloween and the metallic pop cut ‘Prophecy of the Dragon’, both of which the band combined into a 14-minute music video last October will be featured on the LP.Elsewhere, Casablancas and co also announced two gigs in New York and Los Angeles to celebrate the release of ‘Like All Before You’.

The Voidz have shared their spooky new single ‘Flexorcist’ ahead of Halloween this weekend – listen to it below.The new track from Julian Casablancas and co. is nearly six minutes long and sees the frontman sing of “graves lined-up across the hill“, “pistols at dawn” and “friendly face in the firing squad” atop a synthy, indie-pop leaning melody.“I guess I mighta – sounded a little crazy, maybe / I only think of things I shouldn’t do,” Casablancas sings on the off-kilter new single.‘Flexorcist’ arrives with concept art featuring a spectral winged figure staring over a glowing city.The track also comes ahead of the band’s “immersive” Halloween residency in Brooklyn this weekend.The Voidz will be taking over the Murmrr Theatre for four nights from October 31 to November 3.

The Voidz have shared a new extended version of their 2019 track ‘The Eternal Tao’.‘The Eternal Tao 2.0’ has been released in line with its appearance in a new promo video for Julian Casablancas‘ beloved New York Mets baseball team.The video was shared this weekend (April 1) to mark the start of the new Major League Baseball season in the United States.“I was pretty excited to finally work with the Mets under this new ownership,” Casablancas said of the collaboration.“The fact that they reached out made me feel good about the new energy there.