The Strokes have been around for over two decades, but somehow they feel like the band of the moment again. Songs from their catalog are exploding anew on TikTok, entering more and more playlists, and it seems the algorithm is simply going through them song by song and rediscovering how well this thing still works. Long before this new round, there was Is This It. In 2001, this album brought guitars back to the center, turned five rather indifferent New Yorkers into the faces of an entire generation, and brought songs like Last Nite and Someday to the world, which became classics in their own right. In a special evening in the basement, Eyal Rov will take us into the story, sound, and mythology of the album, and we will listen to it together from beginning to end, to understand why 25 years later it still sounds so right.
