Why do the Strokes continue to intrigue us? The band has one great album to its credit; they don't come much better than 2001's "Is This It," which remains one of the premier rock-and-roll ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 actual seed for the Strokes was planted when Pierre, the brother of Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture, gave Casablancas a Velvet Underground CD for Christmas while he was in high school.

The Strokes were reluctant to appear in a music video at all, and ultimately decided to perform the song live instead of miming to a studio backing track — a throwback to 1970s performance ...

August 6, 2021 • Here the clipped guitars and tight drumming of the original Strokes' song are exploded into the kind of Replacements-y thrust of Touché Amoré's finest moments. May 24, 2021 ...

The Strokes named their latest album “The New Abnormal” well before knowing what our new normal would be.

The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas on staying home (not too bad), the state of our democracy (really bad) Julian Casablancas of the Strokes performs at Lollapalooza in Chicago in 2019.

While strokes traditionally affected older individuals, recent reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate a significant rise in stroke cases among Americans aged 45-64.

The Strokes, in fact, have internalized this common cultural malady as brilliantly as any artists I can think of. I mean this as a compliment: The New Abnormal might be the first time they’ve ...

Julian Casablancas sneered his way into instant rock stardom nearly a quarter of a century ago as the glamorously disheveled frontman of the Strokes. Since then many have repeatedly anticipated ...