The Strokes
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The Strokes: Monarch, London, February 7
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, February 2001
U2 WERE rocking the Astoria across town, but the hotter ticket by far was this New York five-piece who sound like pure 1969 Live Velvets ...
List of articles in the library
Review by Ira Robbins, trouserpress.com, 2001
IS IT VU? IS IT TV? Is it Superband? Nope, it’s just the Strokes, for whom outsized – and musically misinformed – hype made media ...
The Strokes: The Monarch, Camden Town, London
Live Review by Jim Irvin, launch.com, February 2001
THERE IS a buzz about The Strokes that would shame a swarm of hornets. ...
The Strokes: The Monarch, London
Live Review by Julian Marszalek, music365.com, 9 February 2001
London's second-most-hyped gig of the evening showcases NY legends in waiting ...
Bowery Electric: The Strokes/Life Without Buildings: Camden Monarch, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 17 February 2001
THE SOUND BEGINS as a whisper, builds into murmur, stretches into a babble. ...
Review by Yancey Strickler, Flak Magazine, July 2001
GERMAN SOCIAL theorist Walter Benjamin's landmark essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' argues that an original piece of artwork possesses ...
Big riffs from across the pond
Profile by Max Bell, Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 5 July 2001
US garage rock is back, and Detroit and New York are where it's at. Stevie Chick and Max Bell look at the new breed chasing ...
Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, August 2001
THE NEXT BIG Thing is pop's perennial shaggy dog: the louder the anticipatory bark, the meeker reality's bite. So with a guest-list roughly the size ...
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 29 September 2001
A media blitz has created a backlash this exceptional New York combo might not survive ...
Road To Nowhere: The Strokes: Is This It? (Rough Trade)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2001
Debut album from the year's other most talked-about new American band. ...
The Strokes: England's Creaming…
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Spin, November 2001
…itself over New York City "it" band The Strokes. So who the hell are they? ...
Revenge Of The Underground: The Strokes and the White Stripes
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 8 December 2001
Is a new day at hand for 'alternative' rockers? ...
The Strokes: Great White Hopes
Report and Interview by Ted Kessler, The Observer, 16 December 2001
Twelve months ago they were an unheard of indie band. Today, they're being compared to the Rolling Stones. Ted Kessler goes on the road in ...
The Strokes: "I Want A Fight!"
Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, January 2002
Stalked by supermodels, lauded by Joe Strummer and ready to ruck, The Strokes wear the mantle of "cool" like a bespoke suit. But why is ...
The Strokes: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, March 2002
IN THE END, it boils down to a simple rollcall of facts. ...
NME Awards: Where's the aggro?
Comment by Tom Cox, Daily Telegraph, 2 March 2002
This week's NME Awards celebrated the same corporate values as the Brits, says Tom Cox ...
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 23 March 2002
Forget the hype, the haircuts and the priviliged backgrounds. New York heroes have one thing on their mind: the music... ...
Très Chic! Très Bon!: The Strokes: La Mutualité, Paris ****
Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, Blender, June 2002
The Strokes heat up the world's coolest city ...
Of Strokes and Stripes: An American Invasion
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, July 2002
LAST SUMMER THERE was a sign outside British music’s front door. It read "SITUATION VACANT", and then, in smaller print, "Wanted: the Next Big Thing". ...
Various Artists: Yes New York/New York Noise/Post Punk 01
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2003
AH MANHATTAN, so much to answer for – and so in vogue as a rock metropolis after decades as a Hip Hop Mecca. Yes New ...
Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 21 September 2003
THREE HOURS before I am left alone in a press-office antechamber with Britain's only copy of Room on Fire, something very important happens on the ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 October 2003
YOU HAVE TO have some sympathy for the Strokes. The poor little rich kids from New York emerged fully formed four years ago and were ...
Review by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 28 October 2003
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I had a lot of strange listening habits. For instance, I vowed in 1995 to listen to no music made after ...
Not So Different Strokes: The Strokes: Room On Fire (Rough Trade) ****
Review and Interview by Ted Kessler, Uncut, November 2003
Hotly-anticipated second album from New York's finest ...
The Strokes: Room On Fire (Rough Trade)
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, November 2003
SOON AFTER HEARING it for the first time, I decided that The Modern Age EP was perfect, a marvel of compressed energy, three thrilling songs, ...
The Strokes: Braehall Arena, Glasgow
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 3 December 2003
ALL THE DISAPPOINTED assaults on the Strokes have been based on the thought that they should be about more than music. The tired shrug of ...
Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival: Randall's Island, N.Y.
Live Review by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, October 2004
Forty-five bands plus Van Zandt's Boss defy failing weather and technology for New York's biggest garage rave-up. ...
The Strokes: Rebirth of the Cool
Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 25 November 2005
Once they were the hippest band on the planet; then it all went a bit quiet for the Strokes. They tell Laura Barton how they ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 1 December 2005
THE STROKES WERE always an unlikely bet for rock'n'roll's great hope. They have never stood for anything in particular, or said anything worthwhile. Their sound ...
The Strokes: First Impressions Of Earth
Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2006
Can everyone's favourite Big Apple posh-boy pin-ups beat the third album hoodoo? Or are they just talkin' 'bout their Blank Generation? ...
How to buy: Rough Trade Records
Guide by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, December 2006
The revolutionary, still-smokin' independent. ...
The Strokes: The Making of The Modern Age
Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, March 2010
"Suddenly, there were boys with leather jackets carrying guitars": how New York's finest reclaimed the streets for rock music in 2000. ...
Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, March 2011
Prepare to be smitten all over again, as the NYC outfit release a brilliant fourth album. ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Paste, 22 March 2011
I NEVER THOUGHT I'd be making this statement about a Strokes record, but the New York band's fourth album is packed with surprises. Sure, the ...
The Strokes: Angles/The Vaccines: What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Review by Jude Rogers, The Word, April 2011
Every few months, along comes another band ready to "save rock and roll". Who'll take care of it this time: the Strokes, back after six ...
Bassists: Let's Stick Together
Overview by James Medd, The Word, February 2012
They are "the glue" that cements the music, the mysterious put-upon souls plying their crucial trade in a cloud of dry ice by the drum-riser. ...
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 25 March 2013
THE STROKES WILL never remotely equal the zeitgeist-straddling stature of their emergence around the millennium, when the five attitudinal New Yorkers were hailed as the ...
The Strokes: How we made Is This It
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 24 March 2015
ALBERT HAMMOND Jr, lead guitar: ...
Lizzy Goodman: Meet Me in the Bathroom – Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City, 2001-2011
Book Review by Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 8 August 2017
This oral history of New York's musical renaissance is vivid, informative and full of passion. ...
see also Julian Casablancas
see also Albert Hammond Jr.
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