New Ride
October 27, 2016
“The Strokes are definitely my first wife,” Nick Valensi says with a laugh. As the guitarist of the band that set the standard for rock’n’roll in early-’00s New York City, Valensi has spent a good chunk of his life around its members. But a few years ago he acted on his urge to make music outside the “delicate ecosystem” of his forever family.