The Strokes won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2021. Their 2020 album LP The new abnormal beat records of Sturgill Simpson (Sound and anger), DC fountains (The death of a hero), Michael Kiwanuka (Kiwanuka), and Grace Potter (Daylight), with which New York City vets received their first-ever Grammy Award.
Speaking to reporters in the virtual press room after their win, The Strokes responded to a question about “the state of rock’n’roll right now,” said Casablancas, “I always joke about rock’n’roll, so I think it’s funny, or cool, or fitting, that we won the award I think people who say things are dead, I just feel like their imaginations may have died … Honestly, there’s room for so many genres of music – not necessarily blues rock, please, no more of that. “
The new abnormal marked The Strokes’ first studio album in about seven years, after 2013 Comedown machineThey debuted one of them The new abnormal‘s tracks -‘ Bad Decisions’ – during a 2020 rally for Bernie Sanders. In 2016 the group released their Future present past EP
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