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Albert Hammond, Jr. is an alternative rock artist from Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos formed in 1980. 17 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos · Best alternative rock albums
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Francis Trouble
2018
Losing Touch
Single · 2026
Born Slippy
Single · 2026
Black Rabbit (Songs from the Netflix Limited Series)
Single · 2025
I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)
Single · 2022
Thirteen
Single · 2021
Etchings
Single · 2020
Fast Times
Single · 2019
More to Life
Single · 2019
AHJ
EP · 2013
GfC
Single · 2008
Back to the 101
Single · 2006
Albert Hammond, Jr. (born April 9, 1980, in Los Angeles) is a musician best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Strokes. Outside of the band, he has released two solo albums. The son of Gibraltarian-British songwriter Albert Hammond, Albert Jr. was sent to the elite boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland at the age of 13. While there, he met Julian Casablancas, who would go on to be a fellow band member. In 1998, Albert met up with Julian in New York City and together they formed a band with Julian's former schoolmates: Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti. His trademark is wearing formal suits, usually a different one for each show. Albert is usually seen playing an olympian white Fender Stratocaster, or bandmate Nick Valensi's Les Paul Jr. He is usually associated with the "rhythm" guitar portion of the majority of Strokes songs, and most solos are played by Valensi. The solos in which Albert does play are Last Nite, Trying Your Luck, Take It Or Leave It, Under Control, The End Has No End, Ize Of The World, and Vision Of Division. His solos tend to focus largely on more emotional, "bluesy"-type melodical work, and the guitar tends to have a cl…
