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.

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 ...

This take, recorded on an electric guitar, is much more upbeat than the acoustic version that originally appeared on his ‘Either/Or’ album. [Death + Taxes] -- Few classic rock bands have ...

By September, even increasingly conservative Rolling Stone finally put one of the new bands (the Vines) on its cover ... 1979 album “Candy-O.” To be a leader of the new rock, the Strokes ...

And it all made perfect sense when you consider that Arctic Monkeys’ latest album shouts out The Stokes in its opening lyrics. Watch Arctic Monkeys cover The Strokes’ “Is This It” above.

The likes of Peter, Bjorn and John, Owen Pallett and Austra have contributed tracks to a covers album celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Strokes‘ ‘Is This It’. ‘Stroked: A Tribute To ...