Arctic Monkeys continued their tour in support of this year’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino with a show at Queens’ Forest Hills Stadium in Tuesday night, and the band covered a tune from NYC favorites The Strokes, with AM frontman Alex Turner (with a newly shorn head) introducing the song by saying, “Since we couldn’t think of a tennis song, we’re gonna try this.”

Turner and company then jumped into “It This It,” the title and lead track to The Strokes’ unfairly good 2001 debut album. Turner’s crooning vocals fit the cover well, with his band mostly sticking to The Strokes original version and doing it with aplomb. Watch a fan-shot video of the tribute below. 

As Stereogum points out, Arctic Monkeys have covered a couple Strokes songs in the past (“Reptilia” and “Take It Or Leave It”), and Turner has previously voiced his love for the band, telling NME in 2011 that he listened to Is This It frequently during AM’s early days, and even consciously tried to not sound like The Strokes, because of all the other bands who were doing so at the time.

“As much as they probably hate hearing this as well, they were the band that encouraged me to rip the knees of my jeans and write on them in marker pen,” Turner said at the time. He also revealed his favorite Strokes tune as “Trying Your Luck” (fantastic choice, by the way). The frontman even stuck a lyric that referenced the band in Tranquility Base, talk-singing on album opener “Star Treatment,” “I just wanted to be one of The Strokes/ Now look at the mess you made me make.”