The Strokes’ world tour
The Strokes announced a 2026 world tour tied to a new album called Reality Awaits and shared a Coachella setlist and video. (brooklynvegan.com). The band will bring support from Thundercat, Cage the Elephant and Hamilton Leithauser on select dates, according to the announcement. (brooklynvegan.com)
The Strokes have mapped out a 2026 world tour around *Reality Awaits*, their first studio album since 2020. (brooklynvegan.com) The official tour page lists dates from June 12 at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee, through October 20 at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, with stops in North America, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spain. (thestrokes.com) Support shifts by date: BrooklynVegan reported Thundercat and Hamilton Leithauser on June United States headline shows, and Cage the Elephant on a later North American leg that includes September arena and amphitheater dates. (brooklynvegan.com) The album arrives June 26, 2026, according to the band’s official store, which calls *Reality Awaits* the group’s seventh album and says Rick Rubin produced it. (thestrokes.com) The timing closes a six-year gap since *The New Abnormal*, which came out in 2020. NME reported on April 6 that the band had spent much of the intervening period on individual projects before confirming the new record. (nme.com) The rollout started before the tour news. The band’s store says the first song, “Going Shopping,” is already out, and YouTube lists the track as released on April 7, 2026, through Cult Records and RCA Records. (thestrokes.com) (youtube.com) The tour announcement landed two days after the band’s return to Coachella. Setlist.fm says The Strokes played 15 songs on April 11 in Indio, including “Going Shopping” alongside older staples like “Reptilia,” “Last Nite” and “Someday.” (setlist.fm) Festival dates were already on the calendar before the full routing appeared. The band’s official page lists Bonnaroo on June 12, Outside Lands on August 8, Just Like Heaven on August 22, Shaky Knees on September 18 and Sea.Hear.Now on September 20. (thestrokes.com) The presale push is already underway in Britain. The band’s United Kingdom store says fans who pre-order *Reality Awaits* by 3 p.m. British Summer Time on April 14 can get access to the United Kingdom tour presale, with no purchase required. (thestrokes.com) For a band that has spent years teasing new sessions with Rubin, the 2026 plan is now concrete: a June album, a summer start in Tennessee and a fall finish in Spain. (nme.com) (thestrokes.com)
