The Strokes Play “Dine N’Dash” Live for the First Time at Red Rocks

The Strokes introduced “Dine N’Dash” to their setlist on July 24 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. The song, a restless cut from their new album Reality Awaits, had not been performed in public before the show. Fan footage captures the moment clearly enough to confirm its shape on stage: sharper, less compressed than the studio version, with the rhythm section holding the center as the track’s turns unspool.

“Dine N’Dash” arrived as one of the more volatile moments on Reality Awaits, an album that pushes the band further from their early formulas. The recording twists through odd structural choices without losing the melodic directness that has always set the group apart. Live, that tension felt less abstract. The band played it like a working arrangement, not a polished replica, which matched the song’s own logic.

The Strokes are on the road supporting a record that, for better or worse, disregards guardrails. Playing material this new and this idiosyncratic to an amphitheater crowd is a test of how much of that strangeness can survive the transition. The Red Rocks clip suggests they intend to find out.