{"id":644384,"date":"2026-05-15T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644384\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:05:09","slug":"nick-valensi-to-miss-the-strokes-upcoming-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644384\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Valensi to Miss The Strokes&#8217; Upcoming Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Valensi will miss a portion of The Strokes\u2019 upcoming tour dates, the band has announced.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post to Instagram, \u201cNick will be taking a temporary break from the scheduled tour, but we look forward to his return. Holding down the guitar in the meantime is our old friend Steve Schlitz, who many of you will remember from our early NY days. We\u2019re lucky to have him.\u201d Valensi was previously absent from the band\u2019s early 2026 shows, but was back for their sets at Coachella.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:the-strokes*nick-valensi-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fthe-strokes-tickets%2Fperformer%2F3862\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get The Strokes Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Strokes are set to release their new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/the-strokes-2026-headlining-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reality Awaits<\/a>, on June 26th, and will embark on <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/the-strokes-2026-headlining-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">supporting headlining tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1592246\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/05\/nick-valensi-to-miss-the-strokes-upcoming-tour-dates\/the-strokes-18\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Strokes.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"961,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1778793495&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Strokes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Strokes.jpeg&amp;w=225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Strokes.jpeg&amp;w=769\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;this.alignnone size-full wp-image-1592246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Strokes.jpeg\" alt=\"The Strokes\" width=\"961\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Valensi will miss a portion of The Strokes\u2019 upcoming tour dates, the band has announced. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-644384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}