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| Origin | Marin County, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1989–present |
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Stroke 9 is an American alternative rock band formed in Marin County, California, in 1989.
Stroke 9 had their first live performance at Caffe Nuvo in San Anselmo. They split up for the summer and didn't get back together until the summer of 1991. Haddad and Stromberg had no desire to revive Stroke 9, so Esterkyn and Gueldner recruited old schoolmates John McDermott and Stephen Heath. They moved from the basement to the garage and played publicly anywhere that they could. The band put out two independent releases in 1993 and 1995. Eric Stock began filling in on drums in April 1997; Stock was a New York transplant who had previously toured with Modern English.
After signing to Universal Records, the band released Nasty Little Thoughts in 1999, which charted in the US, yielded two rock radio hits, "Little Black Backpack" (originally released in Bumper to Bumper) and "Letters", and was certified Gold by the RIAA on April 21, 2000. [1] The band appeared in the film EDtv as part of the promotion of Nasty Little Thoughts. [2] A second album on Universal followed, entitled Rip It Off . The album's art cover was made to resemble a bootleg CD-R, similar to that of System of a Down's Steal This Album! , which was released about a year later.
The album was not promoted heavily, and its lead single, "Kick Some Ass", was less successful at radio. "Kick Some Ass" appeared in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back during a montage of Jay and Silent Bob flying around the country to attack message board users who bashed them. Late in 2003, the band split with Universal and announced plans to release its next album, All In, independently. [3]
The band released The Last of the International Playboys on June 5, 2007, on Rock Ridge Records. Stroke 9 also recorded "Tap Tap Domination" for the iPhone OS game Tap Tap Revenge . It features "The Yeah Song" as a free downloadable track. [4]
On November 14, 2019, the band announced via their social media a new single Calafrio as well as a new album of the same name. The album was released January 17, 2020. [5] Between 2021 and 2023, Stroke 9 released several singles, [6] one of which was written for the film Losers of Eden. [6] In October 2023, the band released a compilation album called Calafuego, composed of 11 previously released singles.
| Position | Current | Original Universal | Original Rock Band |
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| Guitar & Vocals | Luke Esterkyn | ||
| Drums | Greg Gueldner | Eric Stock | Greg Gueldner |
| Guitar | John McDermott | ||
| Keyboard & Vocals | — | Kirsten Stromberg | |
| Bass | Jens Funke [7] | Greg Gueldner | Tom Haddad |
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
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| US [8] | |||
| Boy Meets Girl |
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| Bumper to Bumper |
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| Nasty Little Thoughts |
| 83 | |
| Rip It Off |
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| All In |
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| The Last of the International Playboys |
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| Calafrio |
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| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
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| US Bub. [11] | US Alt Air. [12] | US Main. | CAN Alt. | NZ | |||
| "Little Black Backpack" | 1999 | 4 | 6 | 39 | 3 | 16 | Nasty Little Thoughts |
| "Letters" | 2000 | — | 27 | — | — | — | |
| "Washin' + Wonderin'" [13] | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Kick Some Ass" | 2001 | — | 36 | — | — | — | Rip It Off and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back |
| "100 Girls" [14] | 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | Rip It Off |
| "Latest Disaster" [15] | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "It Ends Happily" [16] | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Little Drummer Boy" [17] | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | |
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