Strokes 'Reptilia' clip
A live clip of The Strokes performing 'Reptilia' at Coachella 2026 was uploaded on April 13, highlighting how festival anthems still act as cross-generational anchors. The timing of the upload underlines how a single live performance can be recirculated quickly as a shareable moment. (youtube.com)
Coachella uploaded a live video of The Strokes playing “Reptilia” on April 13, two days after the band’s April 11 set in Indio, California. (youtube.com) The official video description says the song was filmed on the Main Stage on Saturday, April 11, during Coachella’s first 2026 weekend. Coachella’s 2026 festival runs April 10 to 12 and April 17 to 19 at the Empire Polo Club. (youtube.com) (coachellavalley.com) The Strokes’ April 11 setlist ran 15 songs, and “Reptilia” appeared near the end, after “New York City Cops” and before “Automatic Stop,” according to setlist records and post-show coverage. (setlist.fm) (consequence.net) The band had not played Coachella in 15 years before this weekend, and their return put a 2004 single in front of a 2026 festival crowd and a YouTube audience at nearly the same time. Coachella said YouTube is its exclusive livestream partner again this year for live, on-demand and Shorts distribution. (consequence.net) (coachellavalley.com) “Reptilia” first came out on The Strokes’ second album, *Room on Fire*, which the band’s store lists with an October 28, 2003 release date, and the single followed on February 9, 2004. More than 22 years later, it is still the song Coachella chose to clip and repost by itself. (thestrokes.com) (officialcharts.com) That choice fits the rest of the set. Post-show reports said The Strokes leaned heavily on early songs including “Hard to Explain,” “Someday,” “Last Nite” and “Under Control,” while also mixing in “Selfless” and the newer song “Going Shopping.” (consequence.net) (setlist.fm) Coachella announced The Strokes on its 2026 lineup alongside headliners including Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G, placing a band formed in the late 1990s inside a bill built for several pop eras at once. (coachellavalley.com) The clip also shows how quickly a festival set now gets turned into a separate object: a single song, posted within 48 hours, with its own thumbnail, comments and replay cycle. In 2026, the live moment and the afterlife of the live moment are almost the same release window. (youtube.com) (coachellavalley.com)
