Band Bio
Here’s a bio Knate wrote:
Straight Outta Junior High is probably the best band in the world. Their talent for making music is surpassed only by their talent for making new fans. Along with being sexy as hell, SOJH gives 110 percent at each show and goes the extra mile afterward.
Straight Outta Junior High has released 4 albums so far. The newest release is an EP called Six Stories. It shows how much the band has matured because all the songs are over 2 minutes long. SOJH’s previous release, Mongoloid Monarchy, exemplified the sly wit and irreverent attitude that SOJH fans have come to admire. The album has sold extremely well around the country. SOJH has released two other awe-inspiring albums on their own, selling tons of them. They re-released Kiss of Deaf nationwide on Mindset Records/Fastmusic in 2004.
Straight Outta Junior High has been steadily touring the country with their brilliant, catchy, and humorous songs for over 4 years. SOJH has headlined shows from Minnesota to Texas and played shows from California to Florida. Pick a state and SOJH has played there. SOJH has made many bands feel inferior by playing with them, such as Sum 41, MXPX, Bayside, Zebrahead, Lit, Alkaline Trio,The Riddlin Kids, Allister, Plain White T’s, and many more. SOJH has also played selected dates on 2003, 2004, and 2005 Warped Tours They could have played more but they didn’t want to over-expose themselves. SOJH also had a spot on the punknews.org tour in the fall of 2004. In 2003 SOJH won the Ernie Ball battle of the bands thanks to fan voting. The band received free instruments and a show at the Key Club in Hollywood.
After all Straight Outta Junior High has accomplished it’s hard to stay humble, but somehow SOJH manages to do that as well. SOJH plans to stay awesome, spend most of their time touring playing for their friends and fans all across the country.
But seriously, SOJH is probably not the best band in the world. That’s a little bit of an exaggeration. SOJH has played tons of shows with all these bands and sold a lot of records on our own. We’ve gone through four vans and been a lot of places. Lots of kids like us, that part is true too.
We are going to stay humble and awesome at the same time. We really don’t have rock star attitudes. If you bothered to read our bio this far you may realize that now. If not you’d think we are a bunch of pretentious self-serving assholes from our over-the-top band bio. Most likely you didn’t read anything at all. Oh well. I try to make these things interesting but that’s nearly impossible. Thanks for wasting your time.
Here’s a stupid bio some professional bio writers wrote for us:
Straight Outta Junior High
Despite the band’s catchy name, the fact of the matter is that these guys’ music has the raw rip of solid punk but the seasoned flavor of artists who know what they’re doing. It’s a perfect blend of energy and melody and is delivered with a ferocity of independent spirit and a limitless sense of exuberance that there’s no escaping the massive appeal of this punk act.
Uplift
Music is uplift in aural form. It has that effect on the members of Straight Outta Junior High and they want their music to have that effect on others. “Music makes us feel happy, awesome, totally radical!” And that’s the same vibe that shoots out at SOJH fans when they’re jamming to the next big act in the punk scene – Straight Outta Junior High.
From Irritation to Fun Social commentary comes in many forms. And despite the overwhelming sense of fun that rolls off the stage when SOJH is performing, there is social commentary to be found within the notes and rhythms of this band’s energetic songwriting. Society is full of ills but those ills transform to satirical fun in the hands of this terrific band.
Inspiration It’s no surprise – if you think about it – that the bad stuff in life can be the inspiration for SOJH’s good – make that great – music. “Things that suck make me want to make fun of them.” You could say that Straight Outta Junior High is making lemonade. When life offers you lemons – in this case, society’s problems – make lemonade – for this band, write fun, exciting songs lampooning the badness of life. It all works out in the end.
The Artist at Work SOJH nabbed the 2003 Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands award and took home $10,000 in hear from a showcase at the Key Club in Hollywood. The group also won a week on the Warped Tour in 2004 and took the 2007 Omaha Entertainment Award for best punk band. Straight Outta Junior High has opened for MXPX, Sum 41, Alkaline Trio, Bayside, Zebrahead, Plain White T’s, Head (P.E.), Lit and more and has conquered a plethora of band battles. The group is planning near-home headliner gigs with touring to follow. The group is busy writing a new album but invites fans to check them out live in the meantime. “We are crazy on stage. We are humble. We are not concerned with our image. We like to have fun on stage and in our songs.” SOJH is currently working with A&R Select, the leading indie A&R firm in Hollywood, CA.
Review “Everything that punk is, SOJH has mastered.” – A&R Select










