There was a point in time when New Yorkers The Strokes were one of the most highly rated new rock bands on the planet. It was the beginning of the new millennium, garage rock had seen a resurgence, and the debut Is This It? album was an absolute smash. Author Steven Hyden captures the buzz beautifully, before taking the reader on the roller-coaster ride what was their subsequent career. The Strokes never got bad (although they never fulfilled the Velvet Underground comparisons that came their way early doors), but the spotlight was shining elsewhere for a while.
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