More than 20 years after The Strokes helped usher in a New York rock revival of sorts, the group will look back with a set of singles and rarities available on vinyl and digital.

The Singles - Volume 01 chronicles the best of The Strokes' material from around their first three albums: breakthrough Is This It (2001) and follow-ups Room on Fire (2003) and First Impressions of Earth (2006). The set faithfully replicates a batch of 7" singles, complete with picture sleeves, that came out in the U.S. and the U.K. - back when vinyl was far less a thing! - and almost all of which featured a non-LP B-side. (This is technically true of early track "Hard to Explain," whose caustic B-side "New York City Cops" was on early pressings of Is This It but was removed soon after the September 11 attacks.)

Singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. (indeed, the son of the songwriter behind "It Never Rains in Southern California"), bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti formed The Strokes in 1998, when the members were in their early 20s. Gradually, thanks to tireless rehearsing and local gigs, the band found themselves at the epicenter of a local revival of indie rock stylings, with other acts like LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol all attaining notoriety around the same time. (This period was chronicled in the 2017 oral history Meet Me in the Bathroom, which took its title from a Strokes lyric.)

The Strokes' debut EP The Modern Age (two tracks of which are featured on The Singles - Volume 01) was issued in the U.K. by Rough Trade, sparking a fiery bidding war that found the group sign to RCA for the acclaimed Is This It. Their first three albums went gold or platinum, and everything from Room on Fire onward has reached the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. (Every one of their albums has done the same in England, with First Impressions of Earth reaching No. 1.)

The Rough Trade version of "The Modern Age" is now available to stream ahead of the set's February 24 release. Pre-order it below and check out the full track list.

The Singles - Volume 01 (RCA/Legacy, 2023) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. The Modern Age (Rough Trade Version) b/w Last Nite (Rough Trade Version)
2. Hard to Explain b/w New York City Cops
3. Last Nite b/w When It Started
4. Someday b/w Alone, Together (Home Recording) / Is This It (Home Recording)
5. 12:51 b/w The Way It Is (Home Recording)
6. Reptilia b/w Modern Girls and Old Fashion Men
7. The End Has No End b/w Clampdown (Live at Alexandra Palace - 12/5/2003)
8. Juicebox b/w Hawaii
9. Heart in a Cage b/w I'll Try Anything Once ("You Only Live Once" demo)
10. You Only Live Once b/w Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Single #1 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 010 (U.K.)/XL/Beggars Banquet BXL 024-7 (U.S.), 2001
Single #2 released as RCA 74321 90466-7 (U.K.)/07863 60554-7 (U.S.), 2002. Tracks originally appeared on Is This It (RCA, 2001)
Single #3 released as RCA 74321 90466-7 (U.K.), 2001. Tracks originally appeared on Is This It (B-side on second pressing)
Single #4 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 063 (U.K.)/RCA 07863 60623-7 (U.S.), 2002 Track 1 originally appeared on Is This It
Single #5 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 140 (U.K.)/RCA 82876 56610-7 (U.S.), 2003. Track 1 originally appeared on Room on Fire (RCA, 2003)
Single #6 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 155 (U.K.)/82876 59176-7 (U.S.), 2004. Track 1 originally appeared on Room on Fire
Single #7 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 205 (U.K.), 2004. Track 1 originally appeared on Room on Fire
Single #8 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 282 (U.K.)/RCA 82876 76275-7 (U.S.), 2005. Track 1 originally appeared on First Impressions of Earth (RCA, 2005)
Single #9 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 305 (U.K.), 2006. Track 1 originally appeared on First Impressions of Earth
Single #10 released as Rough Trade RTRADES 312 (U.K.), 2006. Track 1 originally appeared on First Impressions of Earth