{"id":678920,"date":"2026-11-08T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678920\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:16:11","slug":"watch-the-strokes-play-lonely-in-the-future-and-going-shopping-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678920\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Strokes Play \u201cLonely in the Future\u201d and \u201cGoing Shopping\u201d on SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3961-the-strokes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Strokes<\/a> dropped by Saturday Night Live last night to perform songs from their latest album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-strokes-reality-awaits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reality Awaits<\/a> alongside first-time host Druski. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/nick-valensi-is-busy-playing-with-everyone-but-the-strokes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Still<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/nick-valensi-drops-out-of-upcoming-strokes-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sans<\/a> longtime guitarist Nick Valensi, the band performed \u201cLonely in the Future\u201d and \u201cGoing Shopping.\u201d Walton Goggins, the star of the latter song\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/walton-goggins-boogies-with-julian-casablancas-strokes-going-shopping-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music video<\/a>, joined in on the bongos when they played it. Watch both performances below.<\/p>\n<p>The band followed up their SNL spot by releasing an official music video for \u201cLonely in the Future.\u201d Directed by Warren Fu, the clip uses puppets designed by the team behind British TV show Spitting Image to depict a number of familiar faces, from artists Lou Reed and Bach to controversial billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. (Bezos and Musk even have a love story subplot.) In press materials, the Strokes\u2014who also get their own puppet versions\u2014situated the visual as an homage to Genesis\u2019 video for \u201cLand of Confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last night\u2019s set marked the New York group\u2019s fifth time on SNL. They last featured on the show six years ago, behind their 2020 album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-strokes-the-new-abnormal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New Abnormal<\/a>. This time around, their performance arrived on the tail of North American and European legs of their Reality Awaits <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/the-strokes-plot-tour-of-north-america-europe-and-japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tour<\/a>, which will bring them to Mexico, South America, and Australia in the coming months. Openers have included Thundercat, the Walkmen\u2019s Hamilton Leithauser, and Cage the Elephant.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit Eric Harvey\u2019s review of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-strokes-reality-awaits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reality Awaits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Strokes dropped by Saturday Night Live last night to perform songs from their latest album Reality Awaits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,644],"class_list":["post-678920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}