It took 10 years, 2,400 miles and one whole generational shift in the relationship between indie rock and the mainstream, but the Strokes' ''Is This It,'' released in 2001, did the thing that Nirvana's ''Nevermind,'' released in 1991, was never able to: hide in plain sight. Despite its abbreviated career, Nirvana was the most important rock group...
INDIO, Calif. -- The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival started 12 years ago, a few generations by pop measurements. It's enough time for more than one broad set of tastes to harden and be pushed aside. And during that period, almost inevitably, it has become a festival about itself. The innovations of this year's edition, which started Friday...
Over the weekend at Madison Square Garden they came to bury the first decade of the 2000s. On Friday night it was the Strokes, once the catalysts for multiple revivals: of New York City rock, of the more dissolute strains of late 1960s and 1970s rock, and of the idea of hype band as transgressor. One night later came LCD Soundsystem, which had been...
The Strokes er en amerikansk rockgruppe fra New York.
Gruppen har fem medlemmer: Julian Casablancas (vokal), Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar), Nick Valensi (guitar), Nikolai Fraiture (bas) og Fabrizio Moretti (tromme).
Gruppens ene guitarist Albert Hammond jr. er søn af Albert Hammond der bl.a. havde hittet "It Never Rains In Southern California". Albert hammond jr. har også udsendt et solo album med titlen "Yours to keep".
Gruppen blev med udgivelsen af deres første album, Is This It (2001), kronet som "de nye konger af rockmusik" af magasinet Rolling Stone. Senere hen har har gruppen haft utrolig stor succes, specielt i England.
I oktober 2005 kom den første single, "Juicebox", fra bandets sidste album First Impressions of Earth (udgivet den 2. januar 2006). "Juicebox" blev bandets hidtil største hit. Fold ud