How The Strokes’ debut album Is This It changed music 25 years ago

The Strokes’ Is This It is widely regarded as one of the most influential of all time (Picture: Getty/Metro)

It was the album that made guitar music ‘cool’ again and birthed a new era of indie kids wearing skinny jeans, denim jackets and worn-out Converse.

Today marks 25 years since The Strokes’ seminal debut Is This It was first unleashed onto the world.

Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr, Nick Valensi, Fabrizo Moretti and Nikolai Fraiture were quickly catapulted from young New York City upstarts to rock ‘n’ roll royalty thanks to the stratospheric success of singles Last Nite, Hard to Explain and Someday. 

Is This It made it to number two on the UK album charts and peaked at 33 in the Read Entire Article