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Since they were in the city that helped spur fellow early 2000s indie rockers, The Strokes, to fame, Alex Turner and the Monkeys delivered a faithful cover of that band’s beloved “Is This It.” ...
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 just wanted to be one of the Strokes,” begins Arctic Monkeys’ latest album, Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino. On Tuesday night, that admiration translated into a onstage cover of The ...
The Strokes ... and Brett Kilroe were the art directors at RCA that were handling the album and they were freaking out that the guys hadn’t picked a cover shot yet. At lunchtime we were on ...
referencing the venue’s name and clearly forgetting Lorde’s hit “Tennis Court,” before leading into their cover of “Is This It” by New York’s indie-rock icons The Strokes (although ...
Download their awesome cover of “Take It Or Leave It” below! The version is frenetic, and finds the band faithfully reworking (kinda) the final track of the Strokes’ 2001 debut, Is This It.
They backed up that claim tonight at Queens’ Forest Hills Stadium, covering the Strokes’ “Is This It.” Turner introduced the cover, “We couldn’t think of a tennis song, so we’re ...
It’s not the first time Turner and co. have taken on a Strokes track (previous covers include “Reptilia” and “Take It Or Leave It”) and it’s just one of the many times the singer has ...
At their show tonight in Queens, Arctic Monkeys performed a cover of the Strokes’ 2001 classic “Is This It” from their LP by the same name. Watch their rendition of the track below. X content ...