through the 90s if you were a band from new york you could count on getting laughed out of the room pretty much anywhere else in the country. new york was just a place where rock n roll was thought of as dead. in the 2000s, the predominant music generally is hip-hop. and that s the case in new york. no one s thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11, you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up, and it really starts with the strokes. last night she said i feel so down after 9/11, the city was burning. it was smoldering. sunlight vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. we needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. right now they re the most important band in the world for
music generally is hip-hop. and that s the case in new york. no one s thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. last night she said i feel so down after 9/11 the city was burning. it was smoldering. sunlight vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. we needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. they re the most important band in the world for what they may inspire other people to do. much in the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the 90s, the strokes really helped usher in a lot of other acts. she can t wait she can t
rock n roll was thought of as dead. in the 2000s, the predominant music generally is hip-hop. and that s the case in new york. no one s thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11, you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up, and it really starts with the strokes. last night she said i feel so down after 9/11, the city was burning. it was smoldering. sunlight vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. we needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. right now they re the most important band in the world for what they may inspire other people to do. last night much in the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the 90s, the strokes really helped usher in a lot of
to be some kind of encirclement and russian forces haven t managed to do it yet. ukrainians of obviously encouraged by the fact there wasn t the blitzkrieg everyone was talking about at the start. ukrainians are put up a fight and that has translated into a growing sense of confidence among ukrainians to help eight or nine out of ten ukrainians now think they can win and that might be hubristic. in terms of kyiv itself people are stocking up on food, stocking up on petrol, stocking up on water. speaking to people just two weeks ago doing marketing or selling houses, renovating houses and preparing molotov cocktails for what they see as the inevitable tank advance into kyiv. whether that happens we will wait and see but it seems we are on
can and on, be transparent as you possibly can and what president putin is trying can and what president putin is trying to can and what president putin is trying to do in russia and beyond is to spread. trying to do in russia and beyond is to spread, so the seeds of distrust and misinformation and create enough muddy and misinformation and create enough muddy water around the narrative so that no muddy water around the narrative so that no one muddy water around the narrative so that no one knows what is going on. it that no one knows what is going on. it seems that no one knows what is going on. it seems like that no one knows what is going on. it seems like a clever and brave strategy it seems like a clever and brave strategy of the us in the uk to combat strategy of the us in the uk to combat that and being very open with their intelligence, much more open than, their intelligence, much more open than, as their intelligence, much more open than, as you thei