Nick Valensi won’t tour with The Strokes this summer

The Strokes sometimes seem like the most stay-together-for-the-kids band in the industry (or at least putting on a good face every six or seven years when it’s time to drop a new album). Still, much of the alleged Casablancas-Valensi beef comes across as overblown. As is the case with almost every legacy rock band that formed while its members were teens or young adults and persists for decades on, most of the intra-band conflict can probably be chalked up to being different people at 45 than they were at 20. 

The band’s first album in six years, Reality Awaits, drops June 26, and they have already released two promotional singles for it: “Going Shopping” and “Falling Out Of Love.” Valensi participated in the band’s Coachella sets in April, during which they denounced U.S.-backed attacks on Iran and Palestine. The Strokes are still planning to headline Bonnaroo and Outside Lands this summer, but a timetable for Valensi’s return remains uncertain.