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The lead single from Reality Awaits, the first new Strokes music in six years. The band announced the album on April 6, 2026, with a Nissan 300ZX campaign, mailed cassettes of the song to a hundred fans who had signed up for their text messages, and played it live for the first time at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. It is track six on the album.
The Strokes: Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture, Fabrizio Moretti. Produced by Rick Rubin. From Reality Awaits, the seventh Strokes album and the first since The New Abnormal (2020), produced by Rick Rubin – partly in Costa Rica – and released by RCA and Cult on July 24, 2026, after a delay from June. Sources: Wikipedia, Consequence. Photograph: Erik Calonius, shopping for groceries in a Washington, D.C. supermarket, July 1974. Documerica project, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; National Archives.
- №
- NMU 260407
- artist
- The Strokes
- title
- Going Shopping
- from
- Reality Awaits (2026)
- producer
- Rick Rubin
- label
- RCA / Cult
- photograph
- Erik Calonius, Washington, D.C. supermarket, 1974. Documerica, National Archives.
- filed
- April 7, 2026
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