At Coachella in 2002, the Strokes were the buzz band of the weekend. Having released their debut album, “Is This It,” just six months before, and with only around a dozen songs in their ...

The post The Strokes’ 10 Best Songs appeared first on Consequence. But in the grand scheme of The Strokes’ rocky mythos, it does, and today, it’s now part of the greater argument of Is This ...

Simply, the Strokes were the perfect rock-and-roll group, that most American of institutions, emerging as they did from New York in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 with swagger to spare.

The Strokes are so over. Just as the New York City band of early-twentysomethings releases its debut disc, "Is This It," the rock-and-roll hype machine shifts into overdrive. Earlier this year ...

The Strokes also give titular love to New York on “Ode to the Mets,” the moody closer of “The New Abnormal.” “It was kind of a joke name because it was a sad song that I wrote,” says ...

The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. told The Guardian in 2015: “Although we’d listen to The Velvet Underground, The Beatles and Guided By Voices, ...

Julian Casablancas on the Strokes' prophetically titled new album, 'The New Abnormal,' and the moment he knew that Bernie Sanders was doomed. Coronavirus: Strokes' Julian Casablancas on staying at ...

Since then many have repeatedly anticipated the Strokes’ demise only to see them continue to thrive, as with 2020’s “The New Abnormal,” which won the band its first Grammy Award, and that ...

The Strokes backstage in San Francisco in October 2001, the month the band released its debut album, Is This It in the United States. Anthony Pidgeon/Getty Images hide caption ...

These are the five childhood friends who have made some of the best music to come out of New York in more than a decade. Eleven songs of springy, swaggering Seventies-style punk rock, the Strokes ...

The Strokes’ so-called fashion sense can largely be attributed to him. Before he was in a band, he dressed like he was in one and enjoyed the kick of getting into concerts for free by pretending ...

As The Strokes prepare to release their first new album in seven years, Ed Power reflects on how 2006’s surly, bloated and sharp-elbowed ‘First Impressions of Earth’ turned a band hailed as ...