On August 8th, 2026, the band performed at the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco, California. It was the band’s second time headlining the festival since their polarizing 2021 appearance. During their set, they brought out Charli XCX to perform their song “Take It or Leave It”. Later that…
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On July 24, 2026, the band released their anticipated seventh studio album, Reality Awaits . The album received generally positive reviews from fans and critics, but it also garnished some criticism due to Casablancas’s heavy use of vocoder.
On the same day, they also released In Transit: Part II on YouTube, a 10-minute mini-documentary and behind-the-scenes of how the band and Rick Rubin recorded the album in Costa Rica. It serves as a follow-up to their original 2004 tour documentary, In Transit .
On June 12, 2026, the band commenced the Reality Awaits Tour with a headlining performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. It was the band’s first time headlining the festival since last performing in 2011. They also debuted the full length version of their new single…
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However, on June 11, 2026, the band announced that the Reality Awaits release date would be pushed back from June 26 to July 24, without providing further reasoning. On June 18, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. explained the situation by responding to a fan on X, saying that the band wanted…
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On April 6, 2026, it was announced that their seventh album, Reality Awaits , would be released on June 26, 2026. They released the lead single “Going Shopping” on the same day. Later that month, the band performed at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival , their first performance at…
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On March 8, 2024, the band performed their second benefit concert in support of Kina Collins’ third congressional bid. In the fall of 2025, the band commenced a short tour, including headlining both weekends at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The band also headlined the Harvest…
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In October 2022, Rick Rubin revealed he had been recording a new album with The Strokes in Costa Rica . On February 24, 2023, the band released The Singles – Volume 1 , a vinyl box set containing 10 7″ singles of material from the band’s first three albums, as…
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On June 21, 2021, the band shared a video in support of New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley featuring a clip of a new song “Starting Again” co-written with Gregg Alexander , (which would later become “Going to Babble On”, the fifth track on their next album Reality Awaits…
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On February 10, 2020, the band performed at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the University of New Hampshire. At this performance, Casablancas formally announced the band’s sixth studio album and that the title would be The New Abnormal . He confirmed the release date of the album…
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