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 ...

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 ...

By playing Strokes shows, do you ever feel like you’re contributing to an opiate-of-the-masses vibe? No, because I think I put political thoughts now in Strokes songs too.

Julian Casablancas of the Strokes didn’t sound especially bummed to be stuck at home the other night when he picked up the phone at his place near Venice Beach. “I mean, I generally don’t ...

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 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 ...

As Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. rightfully protests in Meet Me In The Bathroom: "With Room On Fire, people were giving us shit because they said we were sounding too much the same.

The Brokes may not be the Strokes, but they’re close. From left to right, Brandon Wall, Dan Bedard, Marlon Chaplin, Adrian Traub-Rees and Connor MacArthur.