This is an interesting promotional approach: Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. told the NME that some of the tracks on his debut solo record Yours To Keep were originally offered to the band and rejected. “I did suggest my songs (to the rest of The Strokes) once or twice and I got turned down,” he reportedly said. “It wasn’t actually Julian who turned it down, it was the other members who didn’t like it.” (Those Strokes are crazy! His songs are really good.) The guitarist was quick to dissuade anyone from misinterpreting his frustration as, you know, frustration. “I don’t think I feel trapped in the band, but I’m definitely glad I made this record,” he explained. “It wasn’t, ‘I wanna get out’, just sometimes after all the press and touring with each other sometimes you want something different.” Isn’t this how the Breeders got started?