The Strokes have announced details of a 2026 world tour in support of new album ‘Reality Awaits’, taking in dates in the UK, Europe, North America and Japan. Check out dates and ticket details below.
Hot on the heels of the NYC indie heroes releasing their comeback single ‘Going Shopping‘ and announcing their first album in six years with ‘Reality Awaits‘, ahead of their huge show at Coachella 2026, Julian Casablancas and co will be hitting the road for global dates kicking off in June and running through to the end of autumn.
The tour will see stops including two nights at the iconic Red Rocks, before hitting London’s The O2, Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre, Paris’ Accor Arena, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome and more. The UK dates mark the band’s first full tour on British shores in 20 years.
Thundercat, Cage the Elephant, Hamilton Leithauser, Fat White Family, Alex Cameron and ÖLÜM will support select dates across the tour.
Pre-sales begin on Wednesday April 15 before a general from 9am on this Friday April 17 local time. Visit here for tickets to the UK shows, here for North America and here for elsewhere.
The Strokes’ 2026 ‘Reality Awaits’ world tour dates are:
JUNE
2 — Manchester, TN—Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
15 — Clarkston, MI—Pine Knob Music Theatre17—Chicago, IL—United Center*
19 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH—Blossom Music Center*
21 —Toronto, ON—RBC Amphitheatre*
23 — Boston, MA—TD Garden*
26 — Philadelphia, PA—TD Pavilion at Highmark Mann*
27 — Columbia, MD—Merriweather Post Pavilion*
JULY
12 — Richmond, VA—Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront☨
14 — Cincinnati, OH—Riverbend Music Center*
15 — Noblesville, IN—Ruoff Music Center*
17 — Milwaukee, WI—American Family Insurance Amphitheater‡
19 — Saint Paul, MN—Minnesota Yacht Club Festival
22 — Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre†
23 — Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre†
AUGUST
8 — San Francisco, CA—Outside Lands Music Festival
4 — Tokyo, JP—Summer Sonic
15 — Osaka, JP—Summer Sonic
22 — Pasadena, CA—Just Like Heaven
25 — Bend, OR—Hayden Homes Amphitheater
27 — Vancouver, BC—Rogers Arena
28 — Seattle, WA—Climate Pledge Arena
SEPTEMBER
12 — Tampa, FL—Benchmark International Arena
13 — Hollywood, FL—Hard Rock Live
17 — Charlotte, NC—Truliant Amphitheater
18 — Atlanta, GA—Shaky Knees Music Festival
20 — Asbury Park, NJ—Sea.Hear.Now Festival
OCTOBER
6 — London, UK—The O2§
11 — Amsterdam, NL—Ziggo Dome§
13 — Dusseldorf, DE—PSD Bank Dome§
15 — Berlin, DE—Uber Arena§
17—Bologna, IT—Unipol Arena§
20 — Barcelona, ES—Palau Sant Jordi§
22 — Paris, FR—Accor Arena§
25 — Newcastle, UK—Utilita Arena§
26 — Manchester, UK—Co-op Live§
28 — Dublin, IE—3Arena§
*with Thundercat and Hamilton Leithauser
☨with Hamilton Leithauser
‡with Cage the Elephant and Thundercat
†with Hamilton Leithauser and ÖLÜM
§with Fat White Family and Alex Cameron
The Strokes, 2020. Credit: Press
After a Coachella set loaded with classics, banter and a dig at Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the band are gearing up to release their new album since 2020’s acclaimed ‘The New Abnormal‘. ‘Reality Bites’ will arrive on Friday June 26 via Cult Records/RCA Records, and is available to pre-order here. The album was recorded in Costa Rica with producer Rick Rubin and finished in a number of international locations.
Speaking about work on the album back in 2022, Rubin told The Joe Rogan Experience: “We rented this house up on the top of a mountain and set the band up outside. So they’re playing… It’s like they’re doing a concert for the ocean, on the top of a mountain. It was incredible. And we did that every day, playing out in the [open], and they didn’t want to leave. It was, like, the best experience.”
Discussing the experience soon after, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. said: “I don’t think if I told you what it looked like and what it was, you’d fully understand the ‘magical-ness’ of where we were and how it was to record like that.
“It felt really touching that one of his favourite recording experiences was this one he just had right now.”
Of the band’s future, Hammond added: “I really think what excites me about wanting to play music and continue doing it is, I don’t think we’ve written our best songs yet. I really feel that in my gut.”
Hammond Jr. would later describe the album as “looser” than previous work and the experience of making it as “magical”.
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