Strokes drummer...side project...girlfriend...new album!

The Strokes drummer Frabrizio Moretti is working on a new album with his girlfriend, Binki Shapiro.

The band's tentative name is Little Joy, which is also the name of a popular dive bar in the Echo Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles.

The album is slated for an autumn release on Rough Trade in the US, and is reminiscent of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vince Guaraldi and Sixties wall-of-sound girl groups, according to Rolling Stone.