As The Strokes plot a ‘global comeback’ in 2019, here's a look at their many side projects
Any true fan of rock who was around during the turn of the millennium will undoubtedly have a soft corner for the Strokes. With their 2001 debut 'Is This It', the five ragtag New York City rockers — frontman Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti — ushered in an era of garage rock revivalism, going on to influence hundreds of bands across the both sides of the Atlantic and taking a super-charged defibrillator to the dying heart of rock music.
Almost two decades later now, the force majeure of The Strokes has slowly faded away, and although the band never officially split, things have been on the lull. The last original material we saw from the band was their confusingly experimental 2016 EP 'Future Present Past', their first EP in 15 years, which most fans will remember as something best forgotten as quickly as possible.
