Artist #35 The Strokes

Bio from The Festival Voice

The Strokes are the New York City–born indie rock quintet whose emergence at the turn of the millennium helped ignite the early-2000s garage-rock revival, channeling raw downtown attitude into tightly engineered rock minimalism that reshaped the sound of modern alternative music. Formed in 1998 by vocalist Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti, the band translated the grit of Lower East Side club culture into a lean, riff-driven sonic architecture defined by interlocking guitars, punchy rhythm sections, and Casablancas’ distinctive lo-fi vocal delivery. Their landmark debut album Is This It (2001) reintroduced stripped-down rock songwriting to a landscape dominated by post-grunge and nu-metal, while subsequent releases including Room on Fire, First Impressions of Earth, and the Grammy-winning The New Abnormal expanded their palette with new-wave textures and layered studio production. Across decades of touring and recording, the band’s meticulous balance of analog grit, melodic economy, and rhythmic precision has solidified their reputation as architects of modern indie rock whose influence continues to echo across festival stages and contemporary guitar music.

Genre: Indie Rock

Scheduled: Friday

Songs & Sets:

The Strokes — The Adults Are Talking Live @ Lollapalooza Argentina 2022

The Strokes — Ode to the Mets Live @ Lollapalooza Argentina 2022

The Strokes — Bad Decisions Live @ Lollapalooza Argentina 2022

Have you seen The Strokes before? Please share your experience and favorite songs.

#Days Until Bonnaroo: 95

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