The Strokes’ Debut Album ‘Is This It’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

July 25, 2026 Erika Wolf

The Strokes’ quintessence is that they managed to sound uncannily like a band from the past, but in a way that’s also startlingly fresh and modern. That is the heady magic of ‘Is This It.’

The Strokes’ ‘Room on Fire’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

October 27, 2023 Samantha Lopez

The Strokes’ second album is built on thrill and speed, with heavy, almost manic instrumentation, subdued and despondent lyricism and an intoxicating frenetic energy.

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Bob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Where ‘Time Out Of Mind’ was drenched in murky, reverb-heavy production, ‘Love And Theft’ was something else entirely: dry, warm, well-written and self-produced under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

Jay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Jay-Z made damn good albums before ‘The Blueprint,’ as well as some afterwards. But his sixth studio affair remains the album where everything came together.