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The Strokes

December 2023

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2003.

    I’m only seeing bands I loved when I was 14. Am I in a musical rut – or is this growing up?

    Sinéad Stubbins
    I used to be devoted to discovering new music. Now my gig-going is mostly driven by nostalgia – and I’m not alone

October 2023

  • Laura Snapes

    Don’t play the hits! Rarities are one of the great joys of live music

    Laura Snapes
    From the National to U2 and Taylor Swift, artists are digging beyond their best-known songs to affirm the connection they share with their loyal fans

July 2023

  • Albert Hammond Jr.

    Honest playlist
    ‘I hate karaoke!’ Albert Hammond Jr’s honest playlist

    The Strokes guitarist grew up on Phil Collins and has Cat Stevens as his alarm tone, but when it comes to the bedroom, he prefers a long player

May 2023

  • Big Zuu

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in May 2023
  • ‘Emotional time travel’ … the Moldy Peaches in 2023.

    Cult indie band the Moldy Peaches return: ‘We were misfits who didn’t feel accepted’

    With their stoner humour and rabbit fancy dress, the ‘anti-folk’ band stuck out next to New York’s hip 00s bands. Now touring again, they look back on their uniquely ‘tender but brutal’ songwriting
  • Musician Albert Hammond Jr photographed in Los Angeles for the Observer New Review by Angela Ricciardi, April 2023

    Albert Hammond Jr: ‘The universe moved when the Strokes were all together’

    The Strokes guitarist has swapped hellraising New York for clean-living LA, become a father and collaborated with a poet on his new solo album. Life, he says, is a new kind of complicated

March 2023

  • Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Meet Me in the Bathroom.

    Meet Me in the Bathroom review – pouting pomp from New York’s indie rockers

  • The Libertines at Barfly in Camden, north London, 2003

    ‘It was nuts what we got away with’: remembering the 00s UK indie explosion

February 2023

  • The Strokes<br>Portrait of The Strokes backstage at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA on 16th October 2001, L-R Fabrizio Moretti, Albert Hammond Jr, Nick Valensi, Julian Casablancas and Nikolai Fraiture. (Photo by Anthony PIdgeon/Redferns)

    Ranked
    The Strokes’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

    As the era-defining 00s indie-rock band release a singles collection – and the Meet Me in the Bathroom documentary traces their NYC heyday – we rate their best tracks

August 2022

  • ‘I think I became a photographer because of my own experience of being objectified’ … Amanda de Cadenet in Los Angeles this month.

    ‘I could not get out of Britain fast enough’: Amanda de Cadenet on tabloid bullies, teenage fame and making it in the US

    She was dubbed ‘the wild child’ in the UK when she presented The Word in the early 90s – and left scarred by the experience. After fleeing across the Atlantic, she reinvented herself, as a feminist activist, photographer, talkshow host and now a podcaster

June 2022

  • Composite of Devine Way and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Queer as Folk to the Strokes and LCD Soundsystem?

    As the hit show appears in its third iteration, jump down the rabbit hole with an 80s romcom, a power ballad, a London spy, a very English scandal and a cucumber

November 2020

  • The Strokes with host John Mulaney and Ego Nwodim.

    Saturday Night Live recap
    Saturday Night Live: John Mulaney returns to a Sleepy Hollow show

    It was Halloween, but the four-time host’s best hits were on Andrew Cuomo and another the skeezy sides of New York

April 2020

  • The Strokes. Singer Julian Casablancas (leather coat), guitarists Nick Valensi (black jacket) and Albert Hammond Jr. (yellow trousers), bassist Nikolai Fraiture (white trousers), and drummer Fabrizio Moretti (pink suit). Photo by Linda Nylind. 19/2/2020.

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    The Strokes: The New Abnormal review – new-found focus

  • Gut-punch nostalgia … the Strokes.

    The Strokes: The New Abnormal review – old magic lights fresh sparks

March 2020

  • Nikolai Fraiture, Albert Hammond Jr, Julian Casablancas, Fabrizio Moretti and Nick Valensi of the Strokes

    The Strokes on their wilderness years: 'There was conflict and fear and we got through it'

    Having failed to match the success of their 2001 debut, New York’s coolest band had petered out. How did they come back with a brilliant new record – and designs for electric bikes?

February 2020

  • Last nite … the Strokes perform at the Roundhouse, London.

    The Strokes review – New York's ultimate hipsters set the crowd alight

    Returning with their first new material since 2013, the band settle into a glorious new wave groove – and a stretch of self-indulgence

September 2019

  • ‘Astonishingly adept at pure pop songwriting’ ... Ric Ocasek.

    Ric Ocasek: Cars frontman who drove new wave into the mainstream

  • Image composite for best of the century - Music 100 04

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best albums of the 21st century

May 2019

  • ‘Commands the stage with a focus and attention to detail reminiscent of Beyoncé’s Homecoming’ ... Christine and the Queens at All Points East.

    All Points East review – blockbuster festival makes a muted return

    Standout sets from the Chemical Brothers and Christine and the Queens salvage an opening weekend marred by sound issues

August 2018

  • Elle Hunt

    Was that it? Why I mistook the Strokes' album cover for a knee

    Elle Hunt
    After misidentifying a body part on the Strokes’ Is This It, I realised I was the victim of the modern age where the LP sleeve has become irrelevant to most
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