Back in the early '00s, the London-based Libertines were part of that whole post-punk guitar rock thing, with various bands out of New York and the UK like the Strokes, the Killers, Interpol, White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, and others getting a load of media hype and alt.rock radio airplay. The bands didn't necessarily have a lot in common -- sure, you'd hear strains of the Velvet Underground and Joy Division and Television and whatever, but they seemed to get lumped together simply by favoring ...
Published on June 05, 2020 07:51