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November 27, 2006 |
We've said it before but it's important to say again...WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE WHAT WE DO! Writing, playing and recording music is where it's at for all of us in Jonin. We are serious about bringing you a killer cd! The album will contain a wide variety of new Jonin tracks, carefully crafted for your listening pleasure. We hope that you guys will dig it as much as we know we'll enjoy making it. |
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Stay tuned to the Jonin Myspace page for studio updates from the Dojo. In the meantime we uploaded a demo version of Breathing to our myspace page. Keep in mind this is a demo, the track will be re-recorded for the album. Go check it out! |
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August 12, 2006 |
Thanks to everyone who came out for the show at Jester's last night. Also much thanks to the other bands Slamhandle and Blatant Disarray who both slayed! We had a killer time as always and it was very cool to be back at our home away from home. We have several upcoming shows so be sure to check the shows page for a date near you.
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In other news, Jonin is featured in the current issue of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. The song "Nothing More" is on the Knuckle Tracks compilation disc along with tracks from Voivod, Strapping Young Lad and All that Remains. Be sure to check that out, it's on newstands across the US and several other countries. |
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July 19, 2006 |
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We also have two new shows up on the shows page. Next show is here in Raleigh with local rockers Pivot and Sold. Don't miss it. As always thanks for the support and encouragement, we love making this music and your continued support allows us to do what we love! Thank you. |
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May 27, 2006 |
Last week we uploaded our track All the Same to Garageband.com. The song has already received several awards listed below in Alternative Metal and Metal categories and it's already made it's way to number 7 on the Alternative Metal Charts. |
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In other news we had a killer time at Marrz this past Thursday night and we definitely can't wait to go back! Thanks to the staff at Marrz for the hospitality and the other bands we played with for rocking out with us. Good times.
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May 18, 2006 |
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Jonin recently did an interview with Eric Walls from local entertainment magazine, The Village Idiot. Read the the transcript of the interview online or pick up your hard-copy today! |
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Jonin Returns to Raleigh. June 16th at the Brewery, Jonin will headline the Blatant Disarray EP release / Isabelle's Gift CD release show. Opening the show will be Fayetteville's The Fifth, great band and a great group of guys. Kudos to STM Music for putting together such a killer lineup. Mark your calendars you don't want to miss any of this! |
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May 10, 2006 |
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Live Jonin is back!! We are finally setting up some Live Jonin shows and our first show back will be May 25th in Wilmington at Marrz Theatre with our boys Pinebox Destiny (Fayetteville. NC) and St. Diablo (Richmond, VA)!! This is a new venue for Jonin so we hope to see some familiar faces as well as some new faces there rocking out with us! This is our first show back with the new lineup and we are starving for it. Raleigh, Fayetteville and Charlotte shows coming soon!! Flyers are available on the Jonin Street Team site. They are their for anyone to download but if you want to signup to be a street team ninja just fill out the form. Loyal ninjas are rewarded. |
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We've ramped up the recording a bit at the Jonin Dojo and we're doing some more demos for the new full length album. We've been tracking guitars the past few days and the raw sound is turning out great (props to Daylight Dies for letting us use their mics)! We're staring on vocals this week and with all the preproduction we've done so far hopefully we'll have some new demo material to share with you guys here soon. |
| You guys have really gone to bat for us on the Isound.com battle of the bands. We've gotten 2009 plays in the last 9 days! We truly appreciate the helps, keep up the killer work and get anyone you can to help us out. It literally only takes a second to queue up all three of our tracks to play but it helps us so much. The other bands have ramped up the competition as of late so we need your help now more than ever! Voting is set to end May 29th so only 19 more days!!! It only takes a few minutes a day and helps us out a lot. We truly appreciate the outpouring of help we've received so far. You guys rule, keep it up! |
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May 4, 2006 |
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The Isound.com battle of the bands is going great! Thanks to your plays we were in the top 60 out of 7000 bands and rising daily!!! We'd just like to give a huge thanks to everyone that has been playing our mp3s, the response has been more than overwhelming. Tremendous thanks from everyone in Jonin!!! |
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While, we're at it, we'd like to thank everyone who has checked us out on myspace.com. We recently reached 10,000 plays thanks to everyone's continued support!!! Thanks for pimping us out. And as promised in our last myspace bulletin, more pictures from the Dojo uploaded today in the photos section. Enjoy. |
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May 1, 2006 |
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The Isound online Battle of the Bands competition starts today and Jonin needs you're help! All you have to do is go to the page and play the mp3s we have up...the most unquie plays wins. Click here to see what's up for grabs! |
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April 28, 2006 |
So you want to know more about the members of Jonin? Check out the personal bios newly added to the bio page (scroll below band bio).
Also, we are now sold out of our "stealth" edition shirts and we're getting low on the others. Send us an email at merch (at) jonin-ki.com if your intersted in snagging something before they are gone. Check em out in the merch section.
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April 17, 2006 |
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Sup guys, just a few Monday updates for ya. The Jonin Press Kit is now available online. Check it out (flash player required). This online press kit features an acoustic interlude by Todd and Thomas as a backing track . This acoustic piece was never really intended for release but it fit the mood of the press pack so well we decided to share. |
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Over the last few days, we've added Jonin to a few different music sites on the web. We're now on Sonicbids.com which is an online Electronic Press Kit / Promotional website. We also added ourselves to few other music sites across the web, check the Jonin on the web section of the links page for more. |
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Jonin is up for another online Battle of the Bands competition. Voting starts May 1st for the Isound.com Battle. It works alot like the Ernie Ball contest (except their site doesn't have the crashing problems), all you have to do is go to the page and play the mp3s we have up...the most unquie plays wins. Click here to see what's up for grabs. |
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Stuart whipped up another Jonin wallpaper the other night so we put it up here for you guys. Oh, one last thing before we go, we'd like to send a special thanks to theS Jonin Street Team Crew; we hope you guys enjoyed the package, thanks again for the support! |
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April 11, 2006 |
So it's been a while since our last update but with us that just means we haven't left the Jonin Dojo much over the past month. Lots of things going on so we just wanted to give you guys a quick update...
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Help Jonin earn a chance to play a date of the Warped Tour by listening to our songs "Nothing More" and "All the Same" on the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands website. The song has to play all the way through for it to count. Voting will begin June 16th and we need as many plays as we can get between now and then (if you have browser problems on the Ernie Ball website try updating your Macromedia Flash player). |
The Official Jonin Street Team website is up. Go there to find out other ways you can help spread the word Jonin and earn opportunities to score some killer Jonin hookups along the way. There's a ton of stuff there including info on how you can earn free admission to shows, free merch and more...check it out. and signup if you haven't already |
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In other news writing for the new album is going very well with another new track, tentatively titled "Dragging the Well," finished this weekend. We're very excited about the material and feel it is some of our strongest to date. We seriously can't wait to bring this stuff to you guys in recorded and live form. Click the picture to the left to check out some photos from recent recording / writing sessions at the Jonin dojo. |
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March 1, 2006 |
New Jonin band photo and pictures of the new members posted in the photos section plus a new all new wallpaper design posted in the media section...check em out.
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February 27, 2006 |
GREETINGS!
First of all we want to thank you for being a Jonin fan/friend...we couldn't do this without you,and we love you.
There have been alot of things going on in the Jonin camp as of late, so we figured it was about time to give everyone the heads up on what's going on in the dojo now, and what to expect in the future..so here goes...
line up change
-For those of you who don't know Mike Hambright and Trey Willits have both gracefully bowed out of the fold, Mike to focus on his family,and his long time band Pivot (http://www.myspace.com/pivot - check them out!), and Trey to more time into his education and career....they will be missed and remain close friends of ours.....replacing them are Tim Worrell (of Raleigh thrash masters Blatant Disarray (http://www.myspace.com/blatantdisarray) on the drums, and long time friend/fan Ray King on bass....you'll be pleased to know that they are both doing a fantastic job thus far.
shows
-While we are currently tightening up the set and doing preproduction on a full length album due sometime within the year, we aren't doing alot of live shows, however we will begin booking some shows in late spring,so if you're interested in booking Jonin contact us now and we'll see what we can do int he future...if you're interested in seeing Jonin, please bear with us until we are ready to come out and do the damn thing right.
street team/fan club
-We are in the process of trying to put together a street team/fan club type thing (ninjas MUST have their clan.). The street teams job naturally will be to help us to promote in areas other than our homebase,and help push us twice as hard at home,if you are interested in helping us out, drop us a line here....being in the street team will automatically make you eliigible for stuff available to fan club members, merch deals, giveaways, and other offers available to members....so sign up NOW.
much love and respect. - Jonin
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January 30, 2006 |
Jonin would like to thank everyone that came out to the show Saturday night. There was a HUGE crowd at the Bekeley Cafe for a killer night of metal! We'd like to thank our buds from Frexon Zo for putting on the show and to Blatant Disarray and Intethod for putting on killer sets and giving the crowd their money's worth. See you next time.
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January 25, 2006 |
Just a quick update, "Lost" is Track of the Day today in metal on garageband.com. If you haven't heard the track go to garageband.com and download it now.
"Lost" - Jonin
Track of the Day in Metal
January 25 2006
In other news Jonin will be performing at the Berkeley Cafe this Saturday with our very good friends, Blatant Disarray and Frexon Zo. Rounding out the bill will be Intethod from Asheville. This fat has been trimmed for this show so be sure to come out for a killer night of metal!
After the Berkeley show Jonin will be taking a few months off from live shows to write and start pre-production on our first full length album! Stay tuned, the wave is gathering.
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January 12, 2006 |
Thanks to some great reviews, the Jonin track "Fast" is going to be Track of the Week in metal for the week of January 16th on garageband.com. Once again, thanks to everyone for their feedback and continued support!
Also, as promised, another previously unreleased Jonin track, "Lost", is now avaialble for download on garageband.com. Go there and download it then let us know what you think.
"Fast" - Jonin
Track of the Week in Metal
January 16 - January 22, 2006
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December 27th, 2005 |
The Jonin track "Fast" is going to be Track of the Day tomorrow on garageband.com. Be sure to stop by the site and download it if you haven't already. Thanks to everyone for their reviews and support, the feedback has been great!!! Expect another unrelased track ("Lost") to be uploaded sometime in the coming weeks.
"Fast" - Jonin
Track of the Day in Metal
December 28 2005
Also, don't forget about this weekends' New Years Eve Bash at Volume / Tavern 11. An all-star lineup, BYOB / BYOL (that means cheap), and a ton of cool people to ring in the new year with. Not to mention the unveiling of another new Jonin track titled "Gathering." Good times for sure. Do NOT miss this one!!!
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December 21, 2005 |
Jonin has uploaded an unreleased track to garageband.com and myspace.com for download. "Fast" was recorded by Chris Hill (Jam Pain Society) during the same session of our three song demo and has remained unreleased until now. We hope you enjoy it. Expect another unlreleased track entitled "Lost" to be released sometime after the New Year. Merry Christmas from Jonin!
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December 18, 2005 |
Thanks to everyone that came out to the Lincoln Theatre last night. We had a great time and would like to thank the killer bands we got to share the stage with; Strychnine Soul kicked the night off with some excellent riffage, Soulpreacher showed us why they are the kings of Doom and Daylight Dies owned (their new material rules, their forthcoming album "Dismantling Devotion" will be a must have). We're sorry for anyone who missed this show because it simply ruled! We'd also like to thank the Mike Guin for the show hookup and Eric Greene for making all the bands sound awesome. Till next time.
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December 11, 2005 |
The lineup for the New Years Bash at Tavern 11 has been announced! This Grand Opening Show will consist exclusively of bands that rehearse at Volume 11 Studio. This All-Star lineup consists of Frexon Zo, Stinkfist (Tool Tribute), Pivot, Blatant Disarray, H.O.W., Jonin, Soul Preacher, Automag, Daylight Dies, Morose Vitality, Dreamscapes of the Perverse, Age of Despair, Slugnut, and the Almighty Confessor!!! See the shows page for more info. This one is not to be missed!!! Jonin would like to thank Keith Fairweather of Volume 11 / Tavern 11 / Slugnut for letting us participate.
Also, be sure to come out to our show at the Lincoln Theatre this coming Saturday, December 17th. We'll be burning down Raleigh with some of North Carolina's finest metal bands! This show is definitely not to be missed!!!
Also if you haven't already done so...
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November 25, 2005 |
The new website is finally done, welcome to Jonin-ki.com v2.0! Please check out the new photo and media sections and be sure to leave a comment or talk trash over to your right.
In other news, T-shirts are finally here! We have four designs all available in our merch section. You can order one by emailing us or pick one up at our next show.
Jonin will be playing at The Lincoln Theatre on December 17th with our friends Daylight Dies (Candlelight records), Soulpreacher and Strychnine Soul (hi res flyer here). This show is definitely not to be missed!
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