#The Strokes Win Their First Grammy for Best Rock Album
“#The Strokes Win Their First Grammy for Best Rock Album”
The Strokes have won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. Their 2020 album LP The New Abnormal beat out records by Sturgill Simpson (Sound and Fury), Fontaines D.C. (A Hero’s Death), Michael Kiwanuka (Kiwanuka), and Grace Potter (Daylight), landing the New York City vets their first-ever Grammy Award.
The New Abnormal marked the Strokes’ first studio album in roughly seven years, following 2013’s Comedown Machine. They debuted one of The New Abnormal’s tracks—“Bad Decisions”—at a 2020 rally for Bernie Sanders. In 2016, the group released their Future Present Past EP.
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