“I just wanted to be one of The Strokes,” admitted Alex Turner on the Arctic Monkeys’ 2017 track Star Treatment. Back in 2001, a 15-year-old Turner was far from the only one enamoured with one of the ...
“Radio-friendly style over substance.” That was the verdict from Pitchfork upon the June 7, 2004 release of the debut album by a Las Vegas quartet being heavily hyped by the U.K. music press, back ...
The title of the album and the song sounds like a question: “Is This It.” But there’s no question mark to be found. The Strokes claimed they didn’t like the look of it in the marketing, but it also ...