The Strokes - Genre Research

The strokes are an indie rock band that are from the states, New York. They released their first debut album in 2001 called Is this is, this lead to their success in countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Argentina, Canada, France and Brazil. They have had four albums, the fourth one being released last year, and are working on their fifth album right now, this shows that they have been a consistently popular band. The band formed at a very young age as they all went to school together, they were all friends until they formed properly as a band in 1998. The album, this received universal acclaim in both mainstream and independent publications. Their popular first album relaunched the indie - rock genre which let them tour the album after it's release, they toured places like, New Zealand, Europe and parts of Asia. This gave them fan bases all over the world which are still popular today.