The Strokes announce tour

The Strokes have mapped out a 2026 world tour behind *Reality Awaits*, their first album in seven years. (livenation.com) The album is due June 26, 2026, and the band’s official store lists nine tracks, including the lead song “Going Shopping.” The store says Rick Rubin produced the record. (shop.thestrokes.com) Live Nation lists arena dates across North America starting June 15 in Clarkston, Michigan, then Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia and Red Rocks before a Europe run that opens October 6 at The O2 in London. Festival stops on the same schedule include Bonnaroo on June 12, Minnesota Yacht Club on July 19, Outside Lands on August 8, Shaky Knees on September 18 and Sea.Hear.Now on September 20. (livenation.com) The tour follows a light live schedule in recent years and arrives six years after *The New Abnormal*, which came out in April 2020. AXS says *Reality Awaits* is the band’s first album in seven years and was recorded at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu. (axs.com) The new material is already in the set. Setlist.fm says The Strokes played “Going Shopping” at San Francisco shows on April 4 and April 6, then kept it in their April 11 Coachella set in Indio, California. (setlist.fm) That Coachella performance leaned heavily on the older catalog, with “Last Nite,” “Reptilia,” “Someday,” “Hard to Explain” and “You Only Live Once” alongside the lone *Reality Awaits* preview. The April 11 set ran 15 songs. (setlist.fm) Support appears to vary by market. The tour announcement cited select dates with Thundercat, Cage the Elephant and Hamilton Leithauser, while individual ticket pages already show different openers in some cities, including Alex Cameron in Newcastle and San Francisco. (axs.com 1) (axs.com 2) The lineup behind the album is unchanged: Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti. After the Coachella weekend and summer festivals, the band heads into a full album cycle with arena dates on both sides of the Atlantic. (axs.com)