Happy Birthday today (Nov. 13) to Nikolai Fraiture, best known as the bassist for New York Citys The Strokes (2001 UK #14 single, Last Nite); one of the most prominent US indie-rock bands at the dawn of the 21st century, they were equally blessed & cursed with an enormous amount of acclaim & hype upon the release of debut album Is This It in 2001 (UK #2 & US #33); Rolling Stone ranked it #199 on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time & #8 on their list of The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time; the groups latest album (their 5th) is the 2013 Comedown Machine; Nikolais side project, Nickel Eye (inspired by some of his favorite artists, such as Neil Young, Frank Black, Leonard Cohen & The Kinks), released album The Time of the Assassins in 2009; for the 37th season finale of Saturday Night Live in 2012, Nikolai played bass alongside The Arcade Fire & guest/musical host Mick Jagger…
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 01:23:12 +0000
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