It couldn’t have been easy to follow up the Strokes’ album “Is This It.” What often happens after a band nails it is the group attempts to replicate what it crafted. It can take quite a while to make ...

When The Strokes released their debut album in the fall of 2001, there were two ways to read the title. The common approach was Is THIS It, as in, is this the next great American rock band? But now, ...

Two weekends of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, two headline sets by the Strokes and two very different experiences. Our weekend one critic, Statesman music writer Mars Salazar witnessed a ...

The Strokes are currently touring the world in support of their 2020 album The New Abnormal. Right now, the band is in Europe where they’ve performed at a few festivals including Denmark’s Roskilde ...

On Tuesday (Feb. 11), The Strokes announced a new album, their first in seven years. It's called The New Abnormal, and it's preceded by the synth-driven single and animated music video for "At the ...

They were a few minutes late, but fans were unbothered. The hype was on the other side of the field where a rumored Taylor Swift appearance at Austin City Limits Music Festival lured both diehard fans ...

It's been a big week of concert announcements around the Twin Cities and surrounding region.

Nobody much asks what the Strokes will do next anymore. (“No search results found for ‘What will the Strokes do next?’” Evidence!) So when “One Way Trigger” electro-spasmed into earbuds in January, ...

Musicians come to Coachella for all kinds of reasons: to hype fresh work, unveil an anticipated reunion, collect a fat paycheck. But not many use the annual music and arts festival in Indio to turn ...

What kind of dark clairvoyance did The Strokes possess to write an album so strangely suited to the current world predicament? "The new abnormal," it turns out, was a remark that the band once heard ...

The Strokes named their latest album “The New Abnormal” well before knowing what our new normal would be. “It feels so prescient because of the parallel between something like coronavirus,” says ...

The Strokes, who have been in the music biz since 1998, won their first-ever Grammy award Sunday and accepted their career award in over two decades in a cringeworthy exchange. Host Jhené Aiko ...