Once Just
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Once Just is a three piece rock band with reggae
, hip hop
and punk
influences, from Calgary
Alberta
Canada. They were signed to an offshoot of Sudden Death Records
from 2006 to 2009. They requested a release from their label due to inadequate funding. They are the only Canadian Act to have played with Canada's Godfather of Punk (Joey "Shithead" Keithley) and Canada's Godfather of HipHop (MC Maestro Fresh Wes) Their album destination was produced by punk rock legend Joey "shithead" Keithley. Once Just was previously called JUST, but changed names to avoid a legal dispute with a now defunct Southern California rock band of the same name. Once Just first hit the national scene in Canada in 2004 when Much Music and Much Loud both picked up the video for the Once Just song "When It's Over", radio stations across Canada soon followed, and the song was a minor hit in Canada, hitting charts across the country. In 2007 the song "Spin It" from the album Destination hit the top 20 Canadian rock tracks on Sirius satellite radio
. In 2008, Once Just played Junofest in Calgary for the 2008 Juno's. In the past 5 years, Once Just has played over 500 shows in both Canada and the USA.
Once Just has released 4 full length albums and 1 EP.
Once Just has played with such artists as, Jars of Clay
, D.O.A. (band)
, Ill Scarlett, Marianas Trench (band)
, Rides Again
, Staggered Crossing
, MoBadAss, Maestro Fresh Wes, Danko Jones and many others.
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
and punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
influences, from Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
Canada. They were signed to an offshoot of Sudden Death Records
Sudden Death Records
Sudden Death Records is a Vancouver, British Columbia based record label run by Joe "Shithead" Keithley.Sudden Death Records arrived in Canada's burgeoning punk scene in 1978. It was only a part-time label until 1998, when they began to expand further into punk rock music...
from 2006 to 2009. They requested a release from their label due to inadequate funding. They are the only Canadian Act to have played with Canada's Godfather of Punk (Joey "Shithead" Keithley) and Canada's Godfather of HipHop (MC Maestro Fresh Wes) Their album destination was produced by punk rock legend Joey "shithead" Keithley. Once Just was previously called JUST, but changed names to avoid a legal dispute with a now defunct Southern California rock band of the same name. Once Just first hit the national scene in Canada in 2004 when Much Music and Much Loud both picked up the video for the Once Just song "When It's Over", radio stations across Canada soon followed, and the song was a minor hit in Canada, hitting charts across the country. In 2007 the song "Spin It" from the album Destination hit the top 20 Canadian rock tracks on Sirius satellite radio
Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...
. In 2008, Once Just played Junofest in Calgary for the 2008 Juno's. In the past 5 years, Once Just has played over 500 shows in both Canada and the USA.
Once Just has released 4 full length albums and 1 EP.
Discography
- Just - How Far the Past is Where to Go (2001)
- Just - Imposter (2003)
- Just - Stand (2005)
- Once Just - Destination (2006)
- Once Just (self titled EP) (2008)
Once Just has played with such artists as, Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay is a Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois.Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on vocals, Charlie Lowell on piano and keyboards, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars...
, D.O.A. (band)
D.O.A. (band)
D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Minor Threat. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to...
, Ill Scarlett, Marianas Trench (band)
Marianas Trench (band)
Marianas Trench is a Juno-nominated Canadian pop punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 2001. They have released three full length albums, the most recent titled Ever After, released on November 21, 2011...
, Rides Again
Rides Again (band)
Hollowick is a Canadian rock band from Oshawa, Ontario, formerly called Rides Again. It is composed of lead singer and guitarist Nathan Peyton, bassist and brother background vocalist Chad Peyton, lead guitarist Luke LeDoux, and drummer Frank Goerz. Their first full-length album, Into Existence,...
, Staggered Crossing
Staggered Crossing
Staggered Crossing, sometimes nicknamed StagX, are a Canadian roots rock band.-Early years:The original group was formed in 1996 in Toronto by four high school friends, Julian Taylor , David E.G. Marshall, Dan Black and Jeremy Elliott. The group quickly gained a local following in North Toronto...
, MoBadAss, Maestro Fresh Wes, Danko Jones and many others.
Sources
- http://ectomag.com/index.php?view=article&id=172&Itemid=2&option=com_content&bsb_midx=-1
- http://www.oncejust.com
- http://www.sceneandheard.ca/article.php?id=1994&morgue=1