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22 July 2026 – The Strokes Face ‘Reality’ At Red Rocks
By Editorial Team - July 22, 2026
Summary
The Strokes headline Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre alongside Hamilton Leithauser and OLUM, previewing seventh album 'Reality Awaits'.
Key Facts
- The Strokes headline Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado tonight.
- Supported by Hamilton Leithauser and OLUM.
- Show takes place 2 days before 7th album 'Reality Awaits' release.
- Entities: The Strokes, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Hamilton Leithauser, OLUM, Reality Awaits, Going Shopping
- Tags: the-strokes, red-rocks, reality-awaits, hamilton-leithauser, indie-rock
<a href="/tags/the-strokes">The Strokes</a> perform at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre tonight with Hamilton Leithauser and OLUM, just two days before the release of seventh album ‘Reality Awaits’. The setting is almost unfairly dramatic: enormous natural rock formations, open sky and a band whose entire visual identity has long suggested they prefer dimly lit rooms after midnight.
New single ‘Going Shopping’ has introduced the next era, while the show gives fans a chance to hear how fresh material sits beside a catalogue that helped reshape twenty-first-century guitar music.
Red Rocks concerts often feel larger than ordinary gigs because the landscape appears to be part of the production. The Strokes merely need to arrive, tune up and avoid being upstaged by geology. After six years without a new album, reality is no longer waiting particularly patiently.