A sexy, stylish, and undeniably cool band, The Strokes are the future of rock & roll
The Strokes is a 5 piece band hailing from New York City, made up of Nikolai Fraiture (bass), Julian Casablancas (vocals), Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi (guitar) and Fab Moretti (drums). Their The Modern Age EP kick-started a wave of hype that saw their 2001 debut record, Is This It achieve massive success and helped initiate an explosion of bands who squeezed brazen New York punk attitude into 3 minute pop songs.
In 2003, their second album (Room on Fire) hit stores and recieved critical praise, some critics citing this album as an advance musically and showed they weren't content to milk the formula that brought them their success.
Constant touring followed by a well-earned break (during which Casablancas married the band's publicist's secretary) meant that it wasn't until January 2006 that their third record, First Impressions of Earth was released. (read more)
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
Others are quiet and uptight
Others they seem so very nice nice nice nice (oh-ho)
Inside they might feel sad and wrong (oh no)
Twenty-nine different attributes
Only seven that you like (oh-oh)
Twenty ways to see the world (oh-ho)
Twenty ways to start a fight (oh-ho)
You Only Live Once Lyrics
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Poll: What do you think is the Best The Strokes Song?
Top Albums
Is This It
1. Is This It 2. The Modern Age 3. Soma 4. Barely Legal 5. Someday 6. Alone, Together 7. Last Nite 8. Hard To Explain 9. When It Started 10. Trying Your Luck 11. Take It Or Leave It
Release Date: 10/09/2001
Links
The best of the rest
- The Strokes Official Website
- Official site contains news, tour dates, pictures, audio clips, fan club, and merchandise.
- The Strokes at Wikipedia
- A series of articles covering the history of the group, the development of their work, the members and notable albums and songs.
- The Strokes Official MySpace
- MySpace music profile for The Strokes with tour dates, songs, videos, pictures, blogs, band information, downloads and more.
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Blog Posts
- The Strokes Will Begin Recording In January — The Ripcord
- More than anything, though, the reason I thought they would split was because professional musicians, especially guys who are actual musicians like The Strokes (versus a celebrity type like Pete Wentz), don't wait four years to make a ...
- The Strokes - Hard To Explain - Bleeding Ears
- I missed the last bus, I'll take the next train I try but you see, it's hard to explain I.
- oh_someday: True or not...?
- Hammond's stay has reportedly delayed recording sessions in New York for the Strokes fourth album, and is said to be costing the band a small fortune. No word on whether this supposed spiral had anything to do with the demise of his ...
- oh_someday: More news on the Albie situation.
- "Has Albert Hammond Jr., the guitarist for the Strokes, checked into rehab? In the wake of an online report that the rocker is drying out somewhere, Page Six has learned he was supposed to deejay at the Photopass Exhibition at the Aaron ...
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