The Strokes Get Weird With Walton Goggins

The Strokes Get Weird With Walton Goggins

The Strokes Get Weird With Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins and The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas (photo: Johann Rashid),

The Strokes get weird and wacky with The White Lotus/The Righteous Gemstones actor Walton Goggins in the video for “Going Shopping,” the heavily AutoTuned lead single from their forthcoming album, Reality Awaits. That project is due July 24 after shifting without explanation from its original June 26 release date.

The “Going Shopping” clip was directed by Johann Rashid and also features Strokes members Albert Hammond Jr., Fabrizio Moretti and Nikolai Fraiture, but not guitarist Nick Valensi, whose mysterious hiatus from the band is now in its third month. Bonus points if you can spot numerous references to Paul Simon and Chevy Chase’s 1986 video for “You Can Call Me Al.”

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Per Strokes reps, Goggins was filming a movie in the Canary Islands when he “told the band on a call, ‘let’s go shopping!’,” and they assembled in late May on the Spanish island Tenerife to roll tape.

In the video, Goggins and Casablancas are seated in front an art deco background for a series of vignettes, such as receiving a container of what looks like windshield wiper fluid from a delivery man, another delivery man, this time in a very Amazon-ish blue vest, arriving with a different package and band members dressed either as clowns (they chest-bump each other for good measure) or disgruntled pirates with metallic helmets. At one point, the Amazon-ish delivery driver is beaten with his own “on strike” placard.

“Never had the audacity to put something like this on my bucket list,” Goggins raved on Instagram. “I’ve been listening to Reality Awaits since March. It’s so gatdamn special y’all. Thank you fellas … Jules, Fab, Albert, Nikolai and Johann for this invitation. Days I will never forget! New friends. Can’t wait to see you on the road, gents! I’ll be singing my ass off in whatever seat I can get.”

Reality Awaits is the follow-up to 2020’s The New Abnormal, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. That project was itself the Strokes’ first album since 2013’s Comedown Machine. The band is now on tour internationally through early December.

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