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The Strokes are an American rock band from New York City, New York, United States, formed in 1998. The band rose to fame in the early 2000s as a leading group in garage rock/post-punk revival. The band consists of Julian Casablancas (lead vocals), Nick Valensi (lead guitar), Albert Hammond, Jr. (rhythm guitar), Nikolai Fraiture (bass guitar) and Fabrizio Moretti (drums and percussion). Upon the release of their debut album, Is This It, in 2001, the group was met with much critical acclaim, being hailed by some as the "saviors of rock and roll." NME made Is This It their Album...

1) Sunstroke - groove metal band formed in 2008 based in Odessa, Ukraine. The band has gone through numerous line-up changes, but the line-up has been stable in 2011. Sunstroke is incorporate heavy metal grooves with world music and other ethnic tribals. Band music can be also reminds you other great bands like: Soulfly, Ektomorf and Sepultura The first full-length album will be self-released in 2011. www.myspace.com/sunstrokeua 2) Sunstroke - grunge/alternative rock band from Czech Republic http://sunstrokeband.bandcamp.com/ .

Athens,GR (1999-present): BootStroke was born through the need of playing Oi!Oi!Oi! music and sing about the things we like and hate.The band was formed in Thessaloniki in 1999-2000 by members of other Oi! and streetpunk bands of that time.The band released a demo tape and did some local gigs.All the members were from diferent cities so the band couldnt last for long like this. The band moved to Athens city with a diferent line up,members of which where playing in the Athenian skinhead band called "Streetboys".After that the story begins. BootStroke sound is a unique powerful melodic but rough Oi!punk...

When Niko Rauhala and Janne Juutinen decided to form a band in the spring of 2002, they had to think of a good name for a band that would have surprising and clever songs. After some brainstorming they came up with a name that seemed to fit them perfectly: MASTERSTROKE. At first there were four members in the band: Niko Rauhala – vocals & guitar, Janne Juutinen – drums, Mikko Viheriälä (ex-Dreamtale) – keyboard, and Arto Tissari (Korpiklaani, Crystalic) – bass. Masterstroke made a demo CD and some gigs with this line-up. In 2003 another guitarist, Markus Kekoni. joined the...