• How The Strokes came up with latest album title, ‘The New Abnormal’

    How The Strokes came up with latest album title, ‘The New Abnormal’

    The Strokes named their latest album “The New Abnormal” well before knowing what our new normal would be. “It feels so prescient because of the parallel between something like coronavirus,” says Julian Casablancas, 41, lead singer and lyricist of the New York garage-rock band. “But the name came from the [2018 California] fires, when Malibu …