“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 ...

After a daring debut album and a mostly ... with Myself,” complete with the latter’s “uh-uh-uh-a-oh” bridge from spiky icon Billy Idol. Before you think the Strokes have transgressed ...

The Strokes, steered musically ... 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 the RV ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On July 30, 2001, – 15 years ago – The Strokes ... The cover for the US version was eventually changed to the new image, also in part to several stockists refusing to sell the album due ...

By Julia Gray “I just wanted to be one of the Strokes, now look at the mess you made me make,” Alex Turner sings on the first line of Arctic Monkeys’ new album Tranquility Base Hotel ...