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    First Impressions Of Earth

    The Strokes making a third album? That wasn't supposed to happen. After all the tricks they stole from their 1970s New York rock heroes, they seemed destined to blaze out in a storm of booze and leather and Danish strippers, preferably in a five-room suite at the Chelsea Hotel, with a neon sign out ...

    2006 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Biography

When they hit the New York scene at the turn of the millennium, the scruffy, hip, Seventies-inflected Strokes seemed to embody the very nature of downtown cool despite the fact that most of the band had grown up uptown. The son of modeling agent John Casablancas, Julian Casablancas was sent at 14 to Le Rosey, a Swiss boarding school, where he began playing music with another scion of the well-know...

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