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Formed: 1998

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Alternative Rock
Indie Rock
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Featured Album

	You Only Live Once / Mercy Mercy Me Released: 2006

Albums
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	You Only Live Once / Mercy Mercy Me Released: 2006
	You Only Live Once Released: 2006
	You Only Live Once Released: 2006
	Heart in a Cage Pt.1 Released: 2006
	Heart in a Cage 2 Released: 2006
	First Impressions of Earth Released: 2006
	Juicebox Released: 2005
	Reptilia Released: 2004
	Reptilla/Modern Girls And Old Fashioned Men Released: 2004
	Reptilia Released: 2004
	12:51 Released: 2003
	12:51 Released: 2003
	12:51/The Way It Is Released: 2003
	Last Nite/Last Night Live Released: 2003
	Room on Fire Released: 2003
	Someday [Canada CD] Released: 2003
	Last Nite [US CD-5] Released: 2003
	Someday [US CD-5] Released: 2003
	Maximum Strokes Released: 2002
	Hard to Explain/NYC Cops/Take It or Leave It/Trying Your Luck Released: 2002
	Is This It (Different Artwork) [IMPORT] Released: 2001
	Modern Age [US CD] Released: 2001

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Biography

Formed in New York City in 1999, by the end of the following year the Strokes were being hyped as the most important rock band of the new millennium and hailed as the second coming of the Velvet Underground. Julian Casablancas (b. 1978, USA: vocals), Nick Valensi (b. New York, USA: guitar) and Fabrizio Moretti (b. 1980; drums) first began playing together at prep-school in Manhattan. Film school student Albert Hammond Jnr. (guitar), the son of singer-songwriter Albert Hammond, and Nikolai Fraiture (bass) completed the line-up. All five members enrolled in college, but were soon lured away by the promise of rock 'n' roll fame. They made their debut at The Spiral in New York on 14 September 1999, and had soon built up a reputation on the city's East Side club scene. The band's demo was picked up by Rough Trade Records and released in January 2001 as a three-song EP called The Modern Age. A major label bidding war ensued for the US rights, with the quintet electing to sign with RCA Records. Despite being forced to remove a track called "New York City Cops' from the US version of the album, in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the band's debut Is This It was enthusiastically received by the music press on both sides of the Atlantic. Although barely rising above the sum of their influences, the Strokes" youthful passion and exuberance seems to have ensured their current iconic status.

Source: http://www.thestrokes.co.uk/biography.php

Artist Forum


Discussion Topic	Creator
Favourite Strokes song?? Which one is your favourite? I like Soma, Reptilia, You talk way too much, The end has no end, Someday.....	redhot

Replys	Listener
i love reptilia, the end has no end, what ever happened, and take it or leave it. i love all their songs really but those are the best.	wlkncontradctn
I think that it is between the end has no end and 12:51 because they are both pretty well done and catchy enough to make you mad at sometimes but it wares off in like 5 minutes so it still rock evertime i hear them	KaiserThief
i'd say you only live once	xdistance
.. and juice box. yeah, my top 2 faves	xdistance
I like You talk way too much. all their song rock but you know...	CollisionOfYourKiss
i love "Under Control" the chords remind me of Bob Marley	jonsysdis