Strokes planning "Secret Shows"

“As the Jan. 3 release of their third RCA album, ‘First Impressions of Earth,’ draws near, the Strokes are about to set off on a worldwide promo tour that will feature secret club shows in several cities. The outing will begin Monday (Nov. 14) in Tokyo and proceed to Sydney, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, Milan and Madrid through mid-December.

‘We’ll do eight new songs and leave, just like how it was with the first record, with no one knowing any of our music,’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. tells Billboard.com. ‘We thought it would build some excitement.’

The club blitz will continue in North America the week the new album comes out, with shows being eyed for New York, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. The Strokes’ ‘proper’ North American tour will then get underway in February and run until the end of April.” [Billboard]