All the Time (The Strokes song) and in transit on tour. All the Time (The Strokes song) "All the Time" is a song by American indie rock band The Strokes. It served as the lead single from their fifth studio album, "Comedown Machine" and was released as a digital download on February 19, 2013. The song was written by lead singer, Julian Casablancas and bass player, Nikolai Fraiture. The 7" was officially released on April 20, 2013 and contained "Fast Animals" as the B-side. A music video for "All the Time" was released on 15, March 2013. It is a compilation of footage of the band
Is This It Julian Casablancas, guitarist Nick Valensi, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Casablancas's stepfather and Moretti's and Fraiture's older brothers introduced the quartet to the music of reggae artist Bob Marley, protopunk group the Velvet Underground, and alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. Discussing the formative stages of the group, Moretti noted, "Our music was, like, [the Doors'], but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we put them together they were this crazy amalgam of insane ideas that we thought was really cool." In 1998, Albert Hammond, Jr., who Casablancas knew from