The Strokes will spend the summer and fall on the road after announcing an extensive headlining tour that begins in June, following the band’s slot at Bonnaroo Music Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. The run includes arena and amphitheater dates in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Vancouver and Seattle, along with two nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado.
The band’s first stretch starts June 15 at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan, then moves through Chicago on June 17, Toronto on June 21, Boston on June 23 and Philadelphia on June 26, the same day its newly announced album, Reality Awaits, arrives. That pairing gives the Strokes a quick pivot from new material to a long itinerary that keeps going well past summer.
The tour also places the band at several festivals, including Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta and Just Like Heaven in Pasadena, and it extends into Japan, the UK and Europe. Among the select dates with support are Thundercat, Cage the Elephant and Hamilton Leithauser, adding a mixed bill to a schedule that already stretches from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest.
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The tour follows the band’s appearance at Coachella Weeknd One and arrives with a clear commercial push behind it. North American artist ticket pre-sales begin Wednesday, April 15, before the public on-sale opens Friday, April 17 at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. By then, the question will not be whether the Strokes are back on the road. It will be how far the new album and the long itinerary can carry them.
