The Strokes have been on hiatus following 2006’s “First Impressions of Earth” — but no more.

The band will get together early next year to discuss their future, drummer Fabrizio Moretti told Billboard.

“(We have) plans of meeting up all of us together in February (to) kind of start noodling around and stuff,” he said.

A new album and subsequent tour are both expected to be on the table.

Moretti also said that the five members are still “all pals” and have good relationships.

Meanwhile, the drummer has been keeping busy during the break with his new band Little Joy, which just released their first album.

Moretti told Billboard that he doesn’t consider the new group to be a side project and would like to continue with it, even when the Strokes regroup.

“It’s really a band that evolved into an honest kind of three-part beast,” he said of Little Joy, which is rounded out by his girlfriend Binki Shapiro and Los Hermanos’ Rodrigo Amarante.






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