Celebrating 15 years of The Strokes Is This It album
The Strokes released their debut album Is This It 15 years ago on 30 July 2001. I’ve previously spoken about my love for the record and its importance on the 10th anniversary in 2011.
Category: Nostalgia
Celebrating 10 years of The Strokes First Impressions Of Earth
The First Impressions of Earth era is my favourite period of The Strokes.
The Strokes feature in NME’s special collectors edition
NME magazine is changing, on September 18 2015 it is turning into a free magazine rather than a paid one.
How The Strokes made Is This It
Albert Hammond, Jr and Is This It Producer Gordon Raphael spoke to The Guardian about the making of Is This It as part of the paper’s ‘How we made’ series.
Looking back at The Strokes performances on Saturday Night Live
This month Saturday Night Live has been celebrating 40 seasons of the show, The Strokes have played the series 3 times and I thought in honour of SNL it would be fun to post all those videos in case you have never seen them before. Hard to Explain and Last...
Celebrating 10 years of The Strokes Room On Fire
Second albums are always considered to be difficult; history has shown that following up a widely regarded debut can daunting and doesn’t always work out. Room On Fire often gets tarnished with the disappointing second album label and since its release the music media have acted like it was a...
Celebrating The Strokes Is This It 10 years on
Ten years ago this weekend (July 30th) Is This It was officially released in Australia (it followed later in the UK and US), the media and fans of the band have been celebrating the record which fundamentally altered the landscape of guitar music at the time. A Love Letter to...
