After a lengthy tour behind 2001’s “Is This It,” the Strokes immediately returned to the studio and recorded the aptly titled “Room on Fire,” a collection of songs penned by singer ...

It’s also the Strokes’ second-best album. That’s right, I’m going there: Room On Fire is better than Is This It. Okay, let’s be clear, I’m not saying Room On Fire straight up blows Is ...

Lyrically, Room On Fire is hung up on the idea of failure, and given the anticipation attached to every move the band makes, the topic seems almost unavoidable: From the beginning, The Strokes ...

One of the year’s most anticipated albums–the Strokes’ “Room on Fire”–is out Oct. 28. The music is guitar pop that revels in understatement, unlike the media coverage that has ...

Opening with "Room on Fire's" sleeper tour-de-force "The End Has No End" and continuing through a set that included tracks pulled in equal measure from both albums, the Strokes nailed the essence ...

With “Room on Fire,” a driven, ambitious second album that smartly distills the giddiness and tension of life in post Sept. 11 New York, the Strokes have kicked the dreaded sophomore slump to ...

Which is why it’s nice that the sophomore disc from New York’s the Strokes – “Room on Fire,” out today – isn’t a high-gloss affair at all, but appealing in a sloppy, scruffy kind of way.

With the 2001 release of Is This It and their follow-up album, Room on Fire, the Strokes are indeed on fire. But the band's career was built by emulating the sound and style of proto-punk bands like ...

It can be important, even historic. It is not always necessary. One of the best things about Room on Fire, the Strokes‘ second album, is that, in most of the ways that matter, it is exactly like ...

So the stakes were high for their next record. With 2003's Room On Fire, the Strokes proved that they are no one-album wonders. The new record rollicks off to a start with "What Ever Happened?"-- ...

Only their hairdressers and Backstage Pass know for sure, but this is how I bet it went down: One night, early in the sessions for their second album, the Strokes ... their own. Room‘s ...