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This is the best unofficial Strokes site on the web...Ok its not really, but come on, I've a budget to keep to. I'll visit here everyday to update everything thats going on in the world of the Strokes. There will be some top pics, the best articles and the coolest links on the web. 'Alone, together' we will follow the Strokes in their stake for world domination!!!
The Strokes are:
Fabrizio Moretti - Drums
Nick Valensi - Guitar
Nikolai Fraiture - Bass
Albert Hammond Jr. - Guitar
Julian Casablancas - Vocals
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Strokes Bio
Powered with overridden vocals, smart guitar riffs, and captivating vocal phrasing, The Strokes manage to make something new out of something old. Through their dynamic live shows they have built a deafening buzz from coast to coast touring with the likes of Guided By Voices and Doves and at the same time jolting to life a sleeping New York City rock scene.
All but one of the band members were born and raised in Manhattan, making them the quintessential NYC band. When Albert Hammond Jr. relocated to NYC from Los Angeles for film school at NYU in 1999, The Strokes were complete.
In September of 2000 the band released a very limited number of copies of their demo calling it The Modern Age. Around that same time legendary record man Geoff Travis received a tip and quickly agreed to release the demo as an E.P on his prestigious indie label, Rough Trade Records in January 2001. One month later The Strokes hit the shores of England selling out every show in their debut headlining tour of the country receiving critical acclaim from the picky U.K. press. "let's be blunt and say The Strokes are the coolest motherf_____s around right now. They swoon with the pure romance and passion of Punk Rock NYC, swaggering street-poets who thrash out towering pop songs awash with love and hate and lust and the switchblade-agony of misunderstanding, all the frustrations of young adulthood writ in Technicolor widescreen with casual profundity by photogenic Bowery bards." (NME, February 17, 2001)
Meanwhile, the press in the United States was discovering the band thanks in large part to a string of sold out nights during a residency at NYC's Mercury Lounge in December 2000. The band received glowing write-ups in Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Paper, and was featured twice in Rolling Stone throughout the ensuing months. In a review of The Modern Age, Rolling Stone's David Fricke wrote "The Strokes are Manhattan's first big rock & roll thrill of the year, I've seen 'em live, too - they definitely have an album of this stuff in them." (February 27, 2001)
The Strokes are currently recording their debut full-length album with producer Gordon Raphael, with whom they also recorded The Modern Age. It will be released later this year on RCA Records worldwide, excluding the U.K. where it will be released on Rough Trade Records. Fans can expect their first major label record to capture that same raw energy and unabashed rock production as found on the The Modern Age.
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