Hot Hot Heat
By Marcus Kagler
The Strokes arguably opened the floodgate of retro indie rock bands dying to break the mainstream with equal success. The NYC quarter’s massive breakthrough album, Is This It? (2001 RCA) not only heralded a new age of mainstream acceptance for independent (or indie sounding) music but of a specific movement where the aping of past indie/alternative genres was the mission statement of the day. The Strokes fixation with sounding like The Velvet Underground certainly didn’t go unnoticed nor did Interpol’s obsession with Joy Division and Gang of Four or The Hives fetish for Iggy and the Stooges. Indie rock in the early 00’s was littered with bands spinning a modern take on the past, so it came as no big... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, New Wave, Alternative/Indie
- City Of Origin:
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Formed Date:
- 1999
