The Strokes

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...