The Strokes' sophomore effort sets 'Room on Fire'

You probably remember the Cambrian Explosion of the infamous “the” bands-the Vines, the Hives, the Strokes, the White Stripes-from your high school or early college career. Although the similarity between these bands (beyond sharing a common definite article) was questionable, the MTV audience tended to group them all as, in essence, the same band. This general homogenizing resulted in a need for each band to create their own identity as something more than a faceless part of the supposed “garag