Largely responsible for the skinny tie and white belt fashion revival as well as the musical revalidation of the 1980s post-punk CBGB sound (as well as the turn of the century trend of plural noun-based band monikers), New York City's fortunate sons the Strokes stylishly exploded onto the scene in 2001 during the heyday of Manhattan's Club Shout! (still an ongoing mecca for hipsters at Gramercy Park's Bar 13 on Sunday nights). Almost every article published about them name-checks Ig...
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