Colin Lane's best photograph: the cover of the Strokes' Is This It
‘The day the album came out, there’s a photo of me grinning in front of a rack of them in Virgin Records. I think my ex-girlfriend was pleased too. I’ve never revealed her identity’
April 2018
Reverb remixes: the musical meme that's celebrating loneliness
The Voidz: Virtue review – a wildly self-indulgent affair
August 2017
Book of the day
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman – review
This oral history of New York’s musical renaissance is vivid, informative and full of passion
July 2017
Book of the day
Meet Me in the Bathroom review – were the Strokes the last real rock stars?
This was it: how the Strokes and New York rock ripped up British music
February 2017
My first love song: musicians remember the soundtracks to their teenage crushes
A shaggy Texan, a firebreathing dancer, Liz Taylor … stars relive their first loves – and the tunes that bring them back
November 2016
CRX: New Skin review – flickering embers of the Strokes
Columbia
July 2016
Stylewatch: The Strokes in 2001
It’s 15 years since the New Yorkers released their debut Is This It?, rocking a vintage look that was eye-openingly democratic and hugely influential
June 2016
10 of the best
The Strokes – 10 of the best
From their booze-soaked breakout through to recent attempts at reinvention, these tracks map the story of New York’s swaggering indie rockers
April 2016
#indieamnesty: how a hashtag revived the last great pre-social media music scene
After #indieamnesty took us down a mid-noughties wormhole of anecdotes, Spector’s Fred Macpherson reflects on the scene that was as unglamorous and idiotic as it was majestic
August 2015
Albert Hammond Jr: Momentary Masters review – wears its influences on its sleeve
The Strokes guitarist’s third solo album is an enjoyable listen despite its lack of individuality
June 2015
The Strokes review: few expect fireworks – but they blow the park up
The Strokes are swept on stage on a tide of hero worship and deliver speedball riffs and urgent bursts of amphetamine rock’n’roll
March 2015
Recorded at the Automat: The Best of Rough Trade Records review – impressive overview of a great label
From the Smiths to the Strokes and beyond, this is a fine showcase of the venerable Rough Trade label
How we made
The Strokes: how we made Is This It
Albert Hammond Jr: ‘We were so nervous before our first gig that we went to see the Eddie Murphy film Bowfinger to calm us down’
The Strokes to headline Hyde Park in June
New York band are the latest headliners for the summer series of shows in London, joining Taylor Swift and Blur, among others
October 2014
Julian Casablancas opens up about emotionless relationship with Strokes
Frontman reveals that he does not ‘feel anything’ when he performs his band’s most famous songs
Julian Casablancas + the Voidz: Tyranny review — a bloody-minded sonic tantrum
Against the artist’s own wishes, the Strokes frontman’s latest solo offering is compelling, writes Kitty Empire
30 minutes with …
Julian Casablancas: 'I have nothing against gentrification’
The Strokes singer talks to Paul Lester about brunch and banks, dictatorship in the US and his Voidz protest album, Tyranny
September 2014
Lost in showbiz
Julian Casablancas’s New York state of mind: too many white people are having brunch at the weekend
Alexis Petridis: New York City is no place for a streetwise rock’n’roller like the Strokes singer, educated in the school of hard knocks – and the elite De Rosay school in Switzerland
