The slots are the band’s only two confirmed live dates of the year
The Strokes are set to make their live return this autumn when they headline Austin City Limits 2025 alongside Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier, Doja Cat and more. See the full line-up below.
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.
Julian Casablancas and co’s appearance on the poster 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.
The Strokes have not yet announced any further festival slots or headline dates.
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:
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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’.
In 2023, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr shared his fifth solo LP ‘Melodies On Hiatus’, while bassist Nikolai Fraiture reunited with his other band, Summer Moon. Elsewhere, guitarist Nick Valensi released an EP with his group CRX in 2024, ‘Interiors’, and played on Ringo Starr’s ‘Crooked Boy’ collection.
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.”
In response, Casablancas confirmed that the group had “jammed and started some stuff”, but told fans that The Strokes’ next album was “extremely v far off” from being finished. “Check back in a year or [two] honestly,” he added.
Hammond Jr later recalled the “magical” new sessions with Rubin, and looked ahead to the band’s future. “I don’t think we’ve written our best songs yet,” he said. “I really feel that in my gut.”
During an interview with NME in spring 2023, the guitarist 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.”
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