The Strokes uploads live
Two fresh YouTube uploads captured The Strokes at Coachella — ‘The Adults Are Talking’ (a newer‑era track) and classic anthem ‘Reptilia’ — showing the band balancing recent material with legacy hits in their festival set. The pair of uploads highlights the festival strategy of mixing catalogue staples with newer songs to reach both core fans and new listeners. (youtube.com) (youtube.com)
Coachella posted two fresh live videos of The Strokes this week, putting a 2026 festival set online one song at a time. (youtube.com) One upload is “Reptilia,” the 2003 single from *Room on Fire* that remains one of the band’s most recognizable festival songs. The YouTube description says the performance was recorded on the Main Stage on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at Coachella. (youtube.com) The other circulating clip is “The Adults Are Talking,” a song from 2020’s *The New Abnormal* that has become a regular part of the band’s live shows. A YouTube posting of that Coachella performance was online by April 13, with more than 18,000 views when it was indexed. (youtube.com) Setlist records for April 11 show those two songs appearing in a 15-song Strokes set at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The same reported set also included “Last Nite,” “Someday,” “You Only Live Once,” and “Hard to Explain.” (setlist.fm) That balance is consistent with how festival sets are built: familiar singles anchor the room, while newer material keeps the act tied to its current catalog. At Coachella, where livestream clips often outlive the set itself, the song choice also shapes what non-attendees see first. (brooklynvegan.com) The Strokes had not played Coachella in 15 years before this return, according to coverage published after the performance. Consequence described the show as hits-heavy, with Julian Casablancas mixing stage banter into a set drawn from multiple eras of the band. (consequence.net) BrooklynVegan reported that the band’s 2026 dates are tied to *Reality Awaits*, described there as The Strokes’ first album in six years. That makes “The Adults Are Talking” a useful bridge in the current set: newer than the early-2000s staples, but already familiar to fans who stayed with the band after *The New Abnormal*. (brooklynvegan.com) Coachella has another Strokes date on the calendar on Saturday, April 18, for the festival’s second weekend. If more official uploads follow, they will likely keep telling the same story as these first clips: a band leaning on songs the crowd already knows while making room for the later catalog. (setlist.fm)
