'Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino' has also topped the official UK album chartArctic Monkeys' Alex TurnerArctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has admitted the arrival of The Strokes in 2001 changed his life. The lyric – I just wanted …Continue reading »The post ‘I borrowed my mum’s blazer’ ...

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Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the sixth Arctic Monkeys album, opens with tinkly pianos, brushed drums, murmuring vintage synths, and this line: "I just wanted to be one of the Strokes / Now look at the mess you made me make." Alex Turner delivers it in a quavery, knowingly drunk open-shirt-collar slur, his voice slathered…

Arctic Monkeys' new album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, will be out in May and it's their first release since 2013's AM. Pitchfork reports that the first song on the album, "Star Treatment," leads with a reference to the Strokes: "I just wanted to be one of the Strokes, now look at the mess you…

Drake's not done headlining music festivals in 2015. The rapper is part of the lineup of the first Landmark Music Festival, held this September in Washington, D.C.