The Strokes
USA
Formed: 1999
Years Active: 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Garage Rock Revival, Punk/New Wave
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Equally inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and John Lennon and the street-smart attitude and angular riffs of fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground, the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype -- particularly from the U.K. music press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their fervor for Oasis in the early '90s. Barely in their twenties by the time their debut album, Is This It, arrived in 2001, singer/songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond...
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