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August 2011

“It wasn’t painful to record Angles, contrary to what was written in the press....”

– Julian Casablancas (via nextredlight)

July 2011

awesomecrow asked: It wasn't 10 years ago but 4 years ago when I first heard 'Someday'. Although it had already been 6 years since it's first release, it still reasonated with me. The next day,I bought my first copy of ITI and played it repeatedly over the weekend. I loved every track off the album. The catchy riffs, the jangly rock and most of all, it had soul. The Strokes made me realize there...

mibad asked: i heard "last night" and i was hooked. "is this it" changed my life. my music, art and culture sense expanded with this album. i became an adult!

i loved "is this it" so much i had 3 copies. one for my discman (i'm ageing myself), one for my cd player (i'm ageing myself more) at home and for the darkroom at school. i couldn't be...

durene-deactivated20130321 asked: I first found out about The Strokes in late 2007, during middle school, when I was just getting into indie rock. I had become a big Arctic Monkeys fan, and found their cover of "Take it or Leave it" on youtube. The video linked to the original version, of The Strokes playing MTV's $2 concert. At first I felt sad, because I thought they were an old 70s band because of the...

Anonymous asked: My sister and I used to fight a lot, about everything, all the time. I remember listening to Is This It for the first time with her, and it was finally something we could agree on.

winkychrist asked: We were playing blackjack at the House of Blues in Las Vegas during that tour together. I lost everything I had but 40 bucks. I asked Jules to play with it cause it seemed to be their lucky year. Surely enough, he won me all my money back. God bless his soul. God, I miss 2001

winkychrist asked: Julian won me 240 dollars in Vegas during that tour. I thank him still to this day

Anonymous asked: I remember the first time I heard 'Someday', and it blew my mind. I stopped whatever it was I was doing (reading, I think), and listened to it again. And again. And again. Two years later, I was sitting in Hyde Park in London with a group of friends, when a group of girls sat near us, and one of them starting singing Someday. I started singing along until she looked over and smiled. Two...

Anonymous asked: when i first bought 'is this it' on CD, i sat on the bus home studying my recent purchase- carefully reading every thank you and casually hyperventilating over the pictures. this album completely kicked my previous music taste's ass, and i don't say this about a lot of bands/albums, but that record changed my life. happy 10 year anniversary! :D

Anonymous asked: any idea what kind of venue the strokes could play in NY? not msg again hopefully

Send us your Is This It memories/stories today! →

Anonymous asked: Here's my Is This It story: After it first came out my sister gave me the CD and I played it in the car...I didn't have that far to drive...but I kept driving so I could listen to the entire album. I couldn't get enough of it then, and I can't get enough of it now. Happy 10 year birthday Is This It!!! Cheers to The Stokes!

“They couldn’t tell me that they wanted the voice brighter and it wasn’t making...”

– Gordon Raphael on recording Is This It (X)

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“Released days after September 11, Is This It could have easily vanished without...”

– New York Magazine, 2006

“New York makes The Strokes better. It’s a city that knows it’s the centre of the...”

– Ten Years On: A Love Letter To The Strokes (via tuesdaycommuter)

Happy 10th Birthday, Is This It!

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Is This It’s Australian release (which is July 30, today/tomorrow depending on your time zone), please send us your stories and memories of the album that started it all! I think we’ll probably do this again for the UK release (August 27) and US release (October 9), so don’t worry if you miss it this time, but let’s start...

Anonymous asked: I don't know if the anon will read this, but you can send them till August 27th I think. Whenever Is This It released in the UK.

Anonymous asked: when is the last day to send in your page for the Is This It book?

Vote for your favourite song from Is This It →

From Lou’s site, shesfixingherhair

rowerpangers asked: There are also t-shirts on Amazon, that's where I got mine.

lin-style asked: Going off of those shirt-related asks, do you know of any place where I could get the Room on Fire tour conductor shirts? I can't post a link, but I saw it at the bottom of an article Opening Ceremony did on Warren Fu and immediately loved it.

ice-skin-deactivated20111220 asked: I bought my Strokes T-shirt at a CD shop, I saw a really cool one in Urban Outfitters too but it was very overpriced.

lets-have-awkward-sex asked: This is some advice for anyone ever looking to buy a Strokes shirt. DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT use eBay. I got a shirt from there and in the picture it looked like the real thing but was a total and cheap ripoff that looked nothing like the real one. I was very disappointed. Luckily I have gotten the real deal now :)

Anonymous asked: Hello! Do you know any cool sites where I can buy The Strokes shirts? Aside from the usual thestrokes website, ebay, etc

TY!

-Amanda

crissierro asked: Hello! Photos of Nikolai in Cory Kennedy's Blog. He appears along with Tennessee Thomas.

“Albert arrived in the group like a crazy rocket. He’s like this ball of energy...”

– Fabrizio Moretti (via strokesquotes)

Ten Years On: A Love Letter to The Strokes →