The Strokes are getting their reps in.
Ahead of their two weekends of headlining gigs at the 2025 Austin City Limits Festival, Julian Casablancas and co. are teaming up for a pair of “warm-up” concerts.
These shows will take place at Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan on Saturday, Sept. 27 and El Paso’s Abraham Chavez Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Special guests have been teased for both shows; at the time of publication, they have yet to be announced.
This quick flurry of concerts will be the first for the garage rockers since March 2024 when they performed a one-off at Chicago’s Credit Union 1 Arena to support U.S. Representative Kina Collins. That night, the scuzzy, fuzzy quintet delivered a 16-song set according to Set List FM. Highlights included fan favorites like “Is This It,” “New York City Cops,” “Soma,” “Someday” and “Reptilia” as well as the band’s sublime, under-appreciated gem “Call It Fate, Call It Karma.”
“Most of the members focus on delivering a tight sound, resulting in them standing still on stage while lead singer Julian walks and dances around, waiting for his verses,” Prowl Radio wrote in a review of the show.
“…in regular fashion, Julian had a ball on stage, rambling and joking around between songs, delivering unhinged remarks such as ‘Where is my elixir? My steroid juice!’ with maniacal laughter as he drank and also yelled, ‘People of Chicago… REPENT!’”
Over the last year, Casablancas, 46, has spent time fronting his side-group, The Voidz. On July 30, they released a four-song EP titled “Męġż of Råm,” that sounds wholly unlike The Strokes but is an acquired taste worth trying; we can’t get enough of the experimental half laid-back/half metal auto-tune aesthetic the group has cultivated.
Fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming Strokes shows and festival appearances on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale for the two one-off shows is Friday, Aug. 8.
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The Strokes tour schedule 2025
A complete calendar of all concert and festival dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.
Austin City Limits Festival 2025
The payoff to the short tour goes down in Austin on Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12.
Both weekends, the “Reptilia” rockers will be joined by big names like Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier, Cage The Elephant, Doechii and Rilo Kiley.
Personally, we’re most excited to see Dr. Dog but that might just be us.
If you’d like to attend, single and multi-day Austin City Limits passes can be found here.
The Strokes set list
Last March, The Strokes performed in Chicago. Here’s what they took to the stage at that gig, according to Set List FM:
01.) “Selfless”
02.) “Hard to Explain”
03.) “You Talk Way Too Much” (First time live since 2015)
04.) “The Adults Are Talking”
05.) “Take It or Leave It”
06.) “Drag Queen” (First time live since 2017)
07.) “Bad Decisions”
08.) “The Way It Is” (First time live since 2019)
09.) “Last Nite”
10.) “Juicebox”
11.) “Is This It”
12.) “New York City Cops”
Encore
13.) “Call It Fate, Call It Karma” (With extended outro of Julian singing bits of “Riders on the Storm” by the Doors)
14.) “Soma”
15.) “Someday”
Encore II
16.) “Reptilia”
Julian Casablancas new music
On July 30, Casablancas’ The Voidz unveiled the four-song EP “Męġż of Råm.”
It’s a weird, unbridled, pure artistic expression. Tight harmonies, lush soundscapes and bizarre yet beautiful vocal choices by Jules make for a fascinating listening experience that we can’t help but revisit over and over. Although we love The Strokes wholeheartedly, this side project diversion allows Casablancas to let his freak flag fly in a way his OG band never would.
In the event, you’d like to listen we recommend starting with the paranoid anthem “Blue Demon.” The almost four-minute bop is like a cursed 8-bit video game soundtrack that somehow makes you want to get up and shake it.
We’re also partial to the creepy yet tranquil “Russian Coney Island,” chilled-out fantasy “Unholy Lover” and almost ambient fever dream “Drifto.”
Want to hear? You can find “Męġż of Råm” here.
Huge artists on tour in 2025
Not in Vegas or Texas?
No worries.
Here are just five of our favorite gritty rockers with Strokes-like sensibilities you won’t want to miss live these next few months when they come to a venue near you.
• Pixies
• Oasis
Who else is out and about? Take a look at our list of all the biggest rockers on tour in 2025 to find the show for you.
This article was written by Matt Levy, celebrity.land live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
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