Debating The Strokes was a brief national pasttime a couple years ago because some people were disinclined to admit that this band singlehandedly spawned the new "New York Sound" and basically launched the whole look and feel of post-punk garage and its many side-effects, mainly Strokes-y streetwear, that swept the globe and still defines the moment. It was a dumb debate since the beginning: The Strokes very simply make the best modern rock music out there. Anyway, the main kid in "Transformers" wears a Strokes T-shirt pretty much throughout the movie, and this didn't bother me so much as compel me to reacquaint myself with them since they've been laying low lately. Solid, tight, pure rock, where the only torture is how good it feels. I'm sold. Again:
And that's it.