The Strokes have announced two warm up shows ahead of their forthcoming Austin City Limits headline slot.
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This year’s edition of the Texas festival is due to take place on two consecutive weekends: October 3-5 and October 10-12 Three-day tickets for both editions are on sale now – buy yours here.
The Strokes were recently confirmed to headline on Saturday night alongside Sabrina Carpenter, and as a warm up they will perform two intimate shows at The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on Sept 27 and the Abraham Chavez Theatre in El Paso on October 1.
You can sign up for a pre-sale, which is due to take place tomorrow (August 6) at 10am local time here, before tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (August 8) here.
We’re playing two shows this fall before touching down at ACL. Las Vegas on September 27 and El Paso on October 1.
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Julian Casablancas and co’s forthcoming shows marks the NYC band’s first confirmed live performances together in 2025. According to Setlist.FM, their most recent gig took place in Chicago in March 2024 – their only concert of last year.
Other acts on the Austin City Limits 2025 bill include Doechii, Luke Combs, John Summit, Cage The Elephant, Empire Of The Sun, Wet Leg, Olivia Dean, MARINA, King Princess, Modest Mouse, Djo, Passion Pit, Confidence Man and The Dare.
Check out the official line-up poster here:
The Strokes haven’t released any music together since dropping their sixth and latest album, ‘The New Abnormal’, in early 2020. Casablancas has since released a new record with The Voidz, last year’s ‘Like All Before You’ and recent EP ‘MęĞż øF rÅm’.
The latter also recently supported IDLES at their homecoming Bristol Block Party, at the weekend.
Last autumn, Casablancas opened up about why he had “kind of stepped away a little bit” from The Strokes as he focused on The Voidz.
“But it’s a very cool day job that I’m honoured to have, so I don’t feel negatively about it,” the singer explained. “If it was wasting so much of my time that I couldn’t do anything positive, then I would. But I don’t let it get to that point. At least I don’t think so. I could be lying to myself.”
Back in 2022, Rick Rubin – who produced ‘The New Abnormal’ – revealed that he was working on a new album with The Strokes, and had finished a recording session with them in Costa Rica. “It was incredible,” he remembered. “And we did that every day, playing out in the [open], and they didn’t want to leave. It was, like, the best experience.”
During an interview with NME in spring 2023, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr gave an update on the progress of The Strokes’ next full-length project.
“I think [Rubin] was just so excited about where we recorded,” Hammond Jr said of the producer’s revelation from the previous year. “But I don’t know what to say about it – I don’t have any information on it.
“It’s not like it’s happening and I’m hiding something. We went and did a bunch of recording. It could come out a year or two years from now – it’s an unknown amount of time when it’ll be finished but, yes, we are working on another record.”
