The Strokes release second single from Reality Awaits, add tour dates
The Strokes released “Falling out of Love” on Wednesday, May 13, giving the strokes a second track from their upcoming seventh studio album, Reality Awaits. Julian Casablancas leans into a detached vocal line on the song, which arrives as the band prepares a U.S. summer run built around the new record.
Reality Awaits rollout
“Falling out of love for the first time/Some things are flawed by design/But I’m fine for the first time.” Those lyrics place Casablancas back at the center of the rollout, after “Going Shopping” arrived in April as the lead single from Reality Awaits. The two-song launch keeps the album campaign moving before the full release is announced, and it gives listeners another cut to judge before the tour starts.
The new track also shows how the band is presenting this record cycle: the lead singer’s delivery echoes Lou Reed and Neil Young in a way that fits the song’s mood, while the album push stays tied to live dates rather than a standalone drop. That pairing is deliberate. For a band selling a new era, a second single is the clearest signal that the campaign has shifted from one-off release to a full rollout.
TD Pavilion on June 26
The Strokes will play Philadelphia’s TD Pavilion at The Mann on Friday, June 26, with tickets starting at $126 including fees for that show. Tickets are available for all North American Reality Awaits Tour concerts, and the lowest price found for any one gig was $57 including fees on SeatGeek. For buyers, that spread says the tour is already priced as a flexible market, not a one-price event.
The tour includes Cage The Elephant, Thundercat, Hamilton Leithauser, Fat White Family and Alex Cameron as special guests. Hamilton Leithauser is the named guest who stands out most in the context because he gives the run a more songwriter-driven edge, not just another rotating opening slot. The Strokes also do not have a New York stop booked on this tour, a notable omission for a band that built so much of its identity around that scene.
San Francisco and Sea.Hear.Now
The Strokes headlined two shows in San Francisco ahead of the tour and Coachella dates, and the second show at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium ran for 19 songs. “Last Nite,” “What Ever Happened?,” “Someday,” “Hard to Explain” and “Reptilia” were all in the set, along with “Going Shopping,” which the band released in April. That mix suggests the new album cycle is being sold with a familiar live spine instead of a hard reset.
The run is set to end at Asbury Park’s annual Sea.Hear.Now Festival on Sunday, Sept. 20, which gives the rollout a clear capstone after the Philadelphia stop. For anyone choosing between shows, the practical read is simple: buy early if you want the lower end of the ticket range, because the tour already has enough demand and enough named guests to keep the top dates moving.
