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Nickel Eye Enters the S.S.

February 4, 2009 2:48 PM

Nickel Eye - "Fountain Avenue"

[Video: Pete Maiden/Eric Helton; Editing by Pete Maiden]


Nickel Eye is a side project from our old pal, Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture, who was kind enough to drop by the S.S. to perform a a couple songs from their debut, The Time of the Assassins.

Fraiture has been on the road to support the project. "The plan has been to tour until this other band I'm in gets back together in February," he says.

Check out "Fountain Avenue" above, written about a street in Los Angeles, and click the jump for "Another Sunny Afternoon," which Fraiture says is "about when things are more perfect when they seem. It's bittersweet, when you feel everything is going so well, but it's not really." 

He also gave us a cover of Jackson Browne's "These Days." 

Head over to the Nickel Eye MySpace to listen to more of their songs.

BONUS: Want to win an autographed vinyl edition of Nickel Eye's The Time of the Assassins? Send us an email by Friday, February 20th explaining why you love Nickel Eye. The best answer gets the loot!

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Little Joy Enters the S.S.

December 17, 2008 6:05 PM

Little Joy - "Unattainable" 

[Video: Pete Maiden/Andrew Flynn; Editing by Pete Maiden]

One of the most pleasant musical surprises of 2008 was the debut album by Little Joy, the Brazilian-heavy trio featuring the Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti, Los Hermanos frontman Rodrigo Amarante and singer Binki Shapiro. 

We were all quite hung over after LJ's New York debut at Mercury Lounge, but that morning they were kind enough to drop into the S.S. headquarters and play a few tunes.

Dig an awesome performance of "Unattainable" above, and click the jump for  "No One's Better Sake" and "The Next Time Around."

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