The Strokes

Surge Tracks

• Heart In A Cage
• Juicebox
• Reptilia
• 12:51
• Last Nite

Artist Biography

Equally inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and John Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs of fellow New Yorkers Television and 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, Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti's success wasn't quite of the overnight variety, but it still arrived pretty swiftly.

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Artist Discography

Albums

First Impressions of Earth (2006-01-02)
Is This It (2001-08-27)
Room on Fire (2003-10-20)

EPs

Hard to Explain EP

Singles

12:51 (2003-10-06)
Hard to Explain
Juicebox (2005-12-05)
Last Nite (2003)
Reptilia (2003)
Someday (2002-09-23)
The End Has No End
The Modern Age (2001-01-22)
You Only Live Once (2006-08-11)

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