Is This It, the album that followed 20 years ago today, only intensified the clamour around The Strokes and further ... s father was the founder of Elite Model Management, his mother 1965 ...

In 2001 Manhattan band The Strokes burst onto the scene with their debut LP Is This It. The album cover featured a tightly cropped shot of a nude model wearing (presumably) only a black glove.

I was like, ‘Why don’t you do that for me?’” How did The Strokes get to use one of your older photographs for their first album, Is This It? The image of the naked woman and that black ...

The Strokes named their latest album “The New Abnormal” well before ... Certainly, the singer — son of Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas and Jeanette Christiansen, a model ...

A persistent early rumor purported that the band was opportunistically assembled by John Casablancas, Julian's father and the founder of Elite Model ... Strokes' decision. Hammond released a solo ...

On July 30, 2001, – 15 years ago – The Strokes released their debut album ‘Is This It’ in Australia, the very first place the record hit the shelves. We don’t need to explain why the ...

Is This It (RCA, Oct. 9), the debut of the Strokes, a rock band composed of ... and from Europe (their album has already debuted at #2 in the U.K.) doesn’t make them too emotionally secure ...

Why do the Strokes continue to intrigue us? The band has one great album to its credit; they don't come much better than 2001's "Is This It," which remains one of the premier rock-and-roll ...

That’s a talent he undertook on the Strokes’ aptly titled 2011 album “Angles,” then refined with his oddball, synth-skronky solo project, the Voidz. Two tracks, in particular, move from ...

"Is this it?" warbled Julian Casablancas, the fashionably lethargic lead singer of the Strokes, New York's current it-band. Opening the group's highly touted, half-hour San Francisco debut Tuesday ...

The Strokes‘ new record is finally done, after nearly two years of work that included scrapping one set of sessions done with a producer, then remaking virtually the whole album on their own.