1G NEWS UPDATE - June 1st, 2007ONE GROOVE ON HAWAII SKIN DIVER! It's been awhile since our last update but we've been busy behind the scenes
working on our sophomore album for CommonGround Records. We're more than halfway through the process and we're excited to share our new music with you all!
1G NEWS UPDATE - August 6th, 2006HAWAII HIGHLIGHTS! A big mahalo nui loa to our Hawaii friends and fans who came out to see us on tour! For
those who missed the KCCN FM100 Birthday Bash XVI, you missed an incredible two days of island reggae music - it was an honor and a privilege to play again this year alongside some of our
biggest influences. And speaking of influences, if you caught our set at Birthday Bash you got a chance to see history as we featured BROTHER NOLAND on stage with us to
perform "Big Ship", our current radio single. Those from Hawaii will remember Brother Noland's rendition of this classic more than 20 years ago... we grew up listening to his music and he is
sounding just as great today (if not better) as he did then. Brother Noland, God bless and mahalo again for making this trip such a memorable one.
1G NEWS UPDATE - July 16th, 2006HAWAII SHOWS! Aloha! We hope your summer's going well. 1G is heading back home to Hawai'i next week
for two KILLER shows in Honolulu. First up is the KCCN FM 100 Birthday Bash XVI on July 28th where we'll be sharing the stage with some old friends and a couple of hot new acts including
Aotearoa's own KATCHAFIRE. Then on Saturday night, July 29th we will be rocking Don Ho's @ Aloha Tower Marketplace. The entertainment kicks off at 10:00 p.m. with the boys from KA'ENA, hailing
from the West Side of O'ahu. Then our labelmates NOMASTERBACKS take the stage followed by yours truly finishing up the night. It'll be a night to remember, don't miss out! 1G NEWS UPDATE - June 19th, 2006SUMMER'S HERE! Aloha everyone, e kala mai for not updating this site with more frequency but it's
been an extremely busy few months for 1G. Besides an aggressive performance schedule, we've been busy with pre-production for album #2 and collaborating on tracks for the forthcoming album
from our newest labelmates Nomasterbacks. Keep an eye out for the 3rd Nomasterbacks album, tentatively titled "AT YOUR DOOR", due out in October from
CommonGround Records. 1G NEWS UPDATE - April 15th, 2006ALBUM #2! Pre-production for our second album is in full swing... Kris & Keone have been holed up at
1G's CrossedCulture Studio for the past two months writing and arranging with the band. Every member of One Groove will contribute songs to this album and we're finding some closet composers in
the ranks! The material so far is a step further into the direction we began with "Make Your Move" - island reggae music with mainstream sensibility. We're looking to take it all to the
next level. More details to follow - stay tuned! We've also got a ton of shows this summer including some out of state dates, we'll share them here as we get more details. 1G NEWS UPDATE - MARCH 11th, 2006ONE GROOVE WELCOMES STEVEN ESPANIOLA! We're very proud to announce a new addition to the
CommonGround Records family - Steven Espaniola will join the ranks this month as One Groove's very first labelmate. Steven's debut CD, "Ho'omaka", will be released in early summer 2006
and we're excited to have front row seats at the birth of this next Hawaiian music star! Like us, Steven is a Hawaii-born transplant living and working here in the California Bay Area. He's been a
great friend of ours and a seminal part of the Hawaiian music scene here for many, many years. Produced by Hawaii music legend Dave Tucciarone, "Ho'omaka" focuses Steven's arresting voice and
multi-instrument talents on a selection of traditional and original Hawaiian mele. We wish Steven the best of success and welcome him as the newest member of the CommonGround roster! For more about
Steven, visit him at his official MySpace site - support island music! 1G NEWS UPDATE - MARCH 1st, 20061G, QUIET STORM & NEOS PRODUCTIONS Aloha from cold and rainy California! Two new reggae compilations
featuring One Groove music will be out in May. "Island Roots VI" from our friends at Quiet Storm productions will include our hit single, "Heartache". We're very excited to be a part of this
project as the compilation has been picked up for international distribution by Fontana, an arm of Universal Music. It's another step towards our goal of pushing island reggae music to the
forefront of the mainstream scene. "Island Love Shack 4" is another compilation due out in May - this project from Neos Productions features our second radio hit, "All My Life", along with other
lovers' rock anthems from some of the premier Hawaiian and Jamaican reggae groups around. Watch for more details here! 1G NEWS UPDATE - FEBRUARY 15th, 2006
ALBUM #2! Lots to share this month - first off, MAHALO TO OUR FRIENDS & FANS IN HILO, KONA AND HONOLULU!!! Hawai'i was off the hook once again, we enjoyed the
opportunity to meet so many of you at the shows, thank you for coming out and making it a another special tour for us... Now it's time for a special announcement (drumroll
please) - WE'VE BEGUN PRE-PRODUCTION ON ALBUM #2!! We hope to have a brand new 1G CD on the shelves before Christmas this year, keep your fingers crossed that we'll be able to make it
happen! What we can share at this time is we'll be working with some old friends (Nice 'N Up & DAMO) plus some new ones on this project. We're again pushing the envelope on
"island reggae music" and pursuing our aim to really bring this music to the masses. The first song we're working on is a killer roots jam written by Keone, heavy but melodic.
KEEP IT TUNED HERE FOR MORE UPDATES! 1G NEWS UPDATE - JANUARY 6th, 2006
HAWAI'I TOUR! One Groove heads home in a few weeks to perform - we hope you can make it out to one of the shows! The bad news is that there has been a change in the itinerary,
we won't be making it to Maui this time around. Our apologies to our friends and fans on the Valley Isle - we'll get out there soon, we promise! The good news is that we'll be
performing in Hilo which we're very excited about... right now the schedule includes Hilo on January 19th, Kona on January 20th, and Honolulu on January 21st for the KCCN FM100 Winterfest concert.
We should have venue, times and ticket details within the next few days - keep checking back! 1G NEWS UPDATE - DECEMBER 29th, 2005
"MAKE YOUR MOVE" BACK AT THE #1 SPOT! Thanks to everyone who went out during the holidays and purchased a copy of our album - your support once again made "Make Your Move" the
#1 selling Hawaiian CD in the 808 State! We appreciate you all and count our blessings daily... A quick note about the upcoming Hawai'i shows in January - we've been getting lots of email inquiring about this tour, but at this time many of the details aren't
completely buttoned up yet. Please keep checking back, we'll post information as soon as we possibly can. Hope to see you guys out on tour! 1G NEWS UPDATE - DECEMBER 13th, 2005
"ONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS" SPINNING ON ISLAND 98.5 FM! Our original Christmas song, "One For The Holidays", began rotation on
Island 98.5 FM Honolulu last week. This single will not be commercially available until Christmas 2006 but if you'd like to get ahold of an
advance copy of the song then email us at contactus@onegroove.net and we'll see what we can do. MELE KALIKIMAKA! 1G NEWS UPDATE - DECEMBER 3rd, 2005
"BIG SHIP" MAKES ITS RADIO DEBUT! We're honored and extremely grateful to Hawai'i radio for their whole-hearted
support of our debut album "Make Your Move". With "Big Ship" now in rotation on KCCN FM100, One Groove becomes part
of a just a handful of groups to have multiple singles in simultaneous rotation. We hope you know how much we truly appreciate your suppport -
we're humbled and blessed by your emails and phone calls. We hope to meet you soon at a show! And speaking of shows, we will be back home in Hawai'i to do a series of shows in January 2006. Stops on the tour include
the BIG ISLAND and MAUI! We've received tons of emails asking when we'd make it out to the neighbor islands so we're stoked to
be finally making the rounds. Keep checking back for details on venues and show times! 1G NEWS UPDATE - NOVEMBER 21st, 2005
A BIG MAHALO NUI LOA TO SANTA CLARA, PORTLAND, SEATTLE AND VALLEJO! The tour was amazing and we enjoyed meeting you all - we hope you
had as great a time as we did... an extra special thanks to our brothers 3Plus, RawSun, Fiji, Donny Kadokawa, Ko'olau Kawelo and the rest of the
Hard Eight Records crew - when we doing it again!? On another note, we found out yesterday that KCCN FM100 in Honolulu is testing another single from our album for rotation - "Big Ship" will
be the 3rd cut from "Make Your Move" to hit the airwaves and we couldn't be more excited about it. For those of you who get the KCCN email surveys,
please take a moment to participate in the most recent one sent out this past Friday (11/18) and vote for "Big Ship"! 1G NEWS UPDATE - NOVEMBER 15th, 2005
We hit the road tomorrow with our friends Fiji, RawSun and Three Plus for the Jahnra Records "New Music Series" West Coast tour.
We're looking forward to meeting new friends and fans! The tour will also stop in Portland and will mark the first time appearance for One Groove
in the beatiful State of Oregon. 1G rocked the El Dorado in Reno, Nevada a few weekends ago, mahalo nui to the many people who came out to
support us - we had a great time! Finally, we're pleased to announce that we have completed "One For The Holidays", an original 1G
Christmas tune that we'll be contributing to a compilation project - keep checking for CD release information. That's all for now,
see you all on the tour! 1G NEWS UPDATE - OCTOBER 27th, 2005
ONE GROOVE & QUIET STORM RECORDS! One Groove has agreed to contribute a track from "Make Your Move" to Quiet Storm Records' "Island Roots v.6"
compilation CD due out in March of 2006. We're excited about this partnership and the opportunity to reach a wider audience with our music - a big mahalo
nui loa to Eric Lagrimas and the crew at Quiet Storm. We've been busy in the studio this past month putting the finishing touches on the new
One Groove Christmas track (we STILL haven't settled on a name for it yet!). Our braddah, Chris Cortez, will be handling mixing duties for us
once again and we hope to release the track to radio soon - stay tuned! 1G NEWS UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 26th, 2005
NEW ONE GROOVE MUSIC IN THE WORKS! We've been busy back in the studio recording a brand new Christmas song to contribute
for a compilation album out of Hawai'i. This original tune, yet to be named, is being produced by One Groove and our good friends
at DAMO' Muzik Works in Redwood City, CA. We're very excited about the song and hope to release to radio in December - we'll keep you updated on its progress!
And speaking of radio, we'd like to send a shout out to DJ Ras Mubarak from Uniiq 95.7 FM in GHANA WEST AFRICA who has been spinning
cuts from our album "Make Your Move". It continues to amaze us that our music has reached audiences as far as Japan and now
the continent of Africa, proving once again that ALOHA IS UNIVERSAL! 1G NEWS UPDATE - AUGUST 27th, 2005
"ALL MY LIFE" HITS THE AIRWAVES!! We're excited to announce that Hawai'i radio has begun spinning a second single from our debut album. "All My Life"
is an original lovers rock anthem featuring Chris Canubida on lead vocals. Q103 FM in Maui has been playing "All My Life"
for a few months now and Island 98.5 FM Honolulu just recently put the song into rotation. Call the 98.5 request line at
(808) 296-9850 and support our second single! Also, be on the lookout for BRAND NEW ONE GROOVE MUSIC due out at Christmas!
Keep checking back for details! 1G NEWS UPDATE - JULY 24th, 2005
Just a few more days til the KCCN Birthday Bash in Honolulu! We're stoked to be going home
to perform for our hometown crowd! We'll be doing a live on-air interview with KCCN at 6 a.m. Hawai'i time - that's 9 a.m.
for our friends in California. Log on at www.kccnfm100.com to check it out! The band will also be filming with the
crew from Hawaii Skin Diver, a locally produced TV show for and about the Hawai'i
sport diving community. We'll be sure to post dates when the episode will air as soon as we know! 1G NEWS UPDATE - JULY 18th, 2005
Howzit! Be sure to check out the recent review of our album, "Make Your Move", by Wayne Harada
in the
Honolulu Advertiser! 1G NEWS UPDATE - JULY 13th, 2005
Well, it's been a busy couple of months for the band. We just got back from Los Angeles
where we did a show for Solkrush Entertainment with braddah Fiji, our boys from 3Plus, Ho'onua, and Lanai & Augie T
from 98.5 FM in Honolulu (who continue to bump our music)! The sold out show at The Grove was NUTS - mahalo L.A.
for giving it up for us, we hope to get down there again soon! We fly out to Honolulu at the end of this month to perform at
KCCN FM100's Birthday Bash XV - the biggest, baddest island reggae show of the year held annually at the Waikiki Shell.
KCCN has been a huge supporter of our album and we're honored that they've invited us down to participate this year. Finally, if you haven't seen the July issue of
Hui Music, check it out - there's a great review of our album, "Make Your Move", and an interview with the band. Thanks for
keeping our album in your CD players and at the top 5 in the Island Music charts - we'll see you all at the next show!
On another note, back in 2006 we reported that the band had spent a day with the crew from Hawaii Skin Diver TV show. Well, more than a year passed without any of the footage being aired - we'd all but
given up hope that it would ever see the light of day. So you can imagine our surprise when we found out that the episode will finally make its debut this week on Oceanic Cable 16 and air for the entire month of June.
Make sure to check out an episode and let us know how it is since we're all the way up here in California with no access to that station! A big mahalo to the crew of Hawaii Skin Diver - HANA PA'A!
Finally, our music will be included on two new Japanese island reggae compilations this summer... it's always been a dream of ours to tour Japan and the release of our music there is a great first step in that
direction! Til next time, keep it HAWAIIAN!
The show at Don Ho's was crazy - Ka'ena, the boys from Waianae, came strong and rocked the crowd... Nomasterbacks followed up with their brand of hip-hop born and bred in the 808 State.
They performed cuts from their forthcoming album, "At Your Door", including two songs with One Groove's own Keone and Chris Canubida. Be on the lookout for the new Nomasterbacks CD to be released this fall from CommonGround Records.
One Groove finished out the night and rocked it 'til early into the next morning. Hawaii, aloha again for making this trip so memorable - we'll be doing it again soon so stay tuned!
Finally, we have two shows coming up on August 10th/11th with two of our Birthday Bash Alumni, Katchafire and Fiji! You can find more information about the shows here.
Thursday night we'll be in our own backyard at Avalon in Santa Clara, CA and Friday night we'll rock Seattle, WA. Hope to see you there!
And speaking of new releases, CommonGround recording artist Steven Espaniola released his debut album "Ho'omaka" on June 13th. The highly anticipated release of "Ho'omaka" has already garnered
strong critical acclaim in both of Hawai'i's leading news publications... check out the Star Bulletin review of the album as
well as The Honolulu Advertiser's take on Steven's debut effort - CONGRATULATIONS BRADDAH STEVEN!
On the event front, One Groove will be heading back to Hawai'i in late July for a series of shows highlighted by a performance at KCCN FM100's Birthday Bash XVI
on July 28th. This will be the second Birthday Bash appearance by 1G and we are excited to play for our Hawai'i family and fans again. Stay tuned for additional 1G Hawai'i appearances and shows
we're working on for that same week. Album #2 is shaping up nicely and we can't wait to share the new material with you all - mahalo for your continued support of One Groove!
On another note, One Groove has signed a licensing agreement with our friends at EasyTok Wireless in Honolulu. You can visit their store at Stadium Mall (next to the Ice Palace) and
download 1G ringtones! Visit them at 4510 Salt Lake Blvd! We welcome EasyTok to the 1G ohana!
The first single from our album, "Heartache", continues to do damage on the Hawai'i charts and has enjoyed the distinction of
being the #1 Hawai'i song for 10 straight weeks in a row on
InterFM 76.1 in Tokyo, Japan. A big shout out to braddah Vance K for holding us down in the land of the Rising Sun.
