The Strokes are gearing up for a five-week U.S. tour that will kick off March 3 with a hometown show at New York?s Hammerstein Ballroom, reports Billboard.

According to the band?s website, the spring outing will wrap up April 11 in Minneapolis.

The band is also rumoured to be performing at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in late April in Indio, Calif.

“I loved it when we played it last time [in 2002],” guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. told Billboard.com. “Absolutely loved it. It was one of the coolest festivals. No offense to American festivals, but it felt very European. It’s outdoors but it’s warm, which is so important.”

The Strokes will be supporting their just-released third album, “First Impressions of Earth,? which debuted earlier this month at No. 4 on The Billboard 200.

Before the U.S. tour, the quintet will be in the United Kingdom for an 18-date run that begins Tuesday (Jan. 24) in London.

Here are the Strokes U.S. tour dates:

March 3: New York (Hammerstein Ballroom)
March 6: Nashville (Ryman Auditorium)
March 8: Atlanta (Tabernacle)
March 10: Kansas City, Mo. (Uptown Theatre)
March 11: Tusla, Okla. (Cain’s Ballroom)
March 14: Austin, Texas (Stubb’s Barbeque)
March 15: Houston (Verizon Wireless Theater)
March 17: Grand Prairie, Texas (Nokia Theatre)
March 19: Denver (Filmore Auditorium)
March 21: Meza, Ariz. (Mesa Amphitheatre)
March. 24: San Francisco (Concourse)
April 2: Portland, Ore. (Roseland Ballroom)
April 4: Seattle (Paramount Theatre)
Apri 7: Chicago (Aragon Ballroom)
April 8: St. Louis (Pageant)
April 10: Milwaukee (Eagles Club)
April 11: Minneapolis (Orpheum Theatre)






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