{"id":569117,"date":"2026-04-07T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:12:11","slug":"the-strokes-share-new-song-going-shopping-via-cassette-mailed-to-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569117\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strokes Share New Song &#8220;Going Shopping&#8221; Via Cassette Mailed To Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, the Strokes announced on social media that their seventh album, <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2494916\/the-strokes-announce-new-album-reality-awaits\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reality Awaits<\/a>, arrives this summer. Last week the band posted a link to sign up for their marketing texts, and now 100 responders who also agreed to provide a mailing address have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheStrokes\/comments\/1se37ya\/received_this_in_the_mail_after_texting_my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">received<\/a> cassettes with a new song called &#8220;Going Shopping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going Shopping&#8221; is not nearly as energetic as their last album, 2021&#8217;s beloved <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2077879\/the-strokes-the-new-abnormal-review\/reviews\/premature-evaluation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The New Abnormal<\/a>. The polarizing track is laid-back and breezy, though there&#8217;s some mild ruckus at the very end as Julian Casablancas sings the final line, &#8220;If you&#8217;re better than me\/ Then you don&#8217;t have to judge me.&#8221; His voice is, as usual, Auto-Tuned into oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>The Strokes will play their second of two San Francisco shows tonight and will return to Coachella for the first time in 15 years this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to a rip of \u201cGoing Shopping\u201d below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, the Strokes announced on social media that their seventh album, Reality Awaits, arrives this summer. Last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-569117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}