{"id":645169,"date":"2026-10-29T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645169\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:32:11","slug":"nick-valensi-is-busy-playing-with-everyone-but-the-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645169\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Valensi Is Busy Playing With Everyone But the Strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors abound as to why <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3961-the-strokes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strokes<\/a> guitarist Nick Valensi has been <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/nick-valensi-drops-out-of-upcoming-strokes-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on indefinite hiatus<\/a> from his longtime band since May, but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from playing with other artists. Valensi\u2019s spent the last few months shredding on stage with Jack White, Nigel Godrich and Dhani Harrison\u2019s group Dragonflies, and, last night in Paris, Duran Duran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might recognize him from the Strokes but tonight he\u2019s here with us, the amazing guitarist, Nick Valensi,\u201d said Simon Le Bon ahead of their performance of \u201cRio,\u201d which they had to restart due to technical difficulties. \u201cI don\u2019t know how to fix shit like this,\u201d Valensi said about the snafu. Julian Casablancas <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2480336\/the-strokes-julian-casablancas-says-he-no-longer-speaks-to-bandmate-nick-valensi\/news\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2480336\/the-strokes-julian-casablancas-says-he-no-longer-speaks-to-bandmate-nick-valensi\/news&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2480336\/the-strokes-julian-casablancas-says-he-no-longer-speaks-to-bandmate-nick-valensi\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">might be thinking the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumors abound as to why Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi has been on indefinite hiatus from his longtime band&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,416],"class_list":["post-645169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}