Overview
- The band brought tourmate Hamilton Leithauser onstage at TD Garden on Tuesday, June 23, for a cover of The Walkmen’s 2012 song “Heaven,” with Leithauser taking lead vocals while The Strokes backed him.
- Leithauser shared a clip of the performance on Instagram with the caption “This one goes out to The Walkmen!!,” amplifying the guest turn beyond the show.
- The Strokes are continuing their North American dates and will expand to the UK, Ireland, Europe and Japan with named support acts, and all current shows are being performed without guitarist Nick Valensi, who is on a temporary break from live appearances.
- The band pushed their seventh album Reality Awaits from its original June 26 date to July 24, and guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. said in a since‑deleted X reply that the shift was to align the streaming release with the vinyl release.
- New singles from the album have drawn mixed fan response over production choices such as Julian Casablancas’s use of vocoder, and the delayed release plus added tour dates will shape how the band stages further promotion and vinyl distribution in the coming weeks.