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1219: 102: 235: 32: 506:, a free annual multi-arts festival dedicated to showcasing the arts scene in the James North region of Hamilton. The three-day event has featured hundreds of national and international touring artists in a range of artistic disciplines. In 2015, the festival received an Ontario Tourism Award of Excellence for Tourism Event of the Year. It was also a finalist for Event of the Year at the 2017 Canadian Tourism Awards. 396:, Sonic Unyon Distribution was founded in 1998 to distribute Sonic Unyon and other labels in Canada, amassing a roster that included dozens of domestic imprints as well as exclusively representing over 250 international independent labels within Canada. The company distributed releases in Canada from independent labels from around the world and issued select co-releases with other independent labels, including 1205: 509:
Sonic Unyon has since broadened its events-based business to include the annual Because Beer Craft Beer Festival, and the opening of multi-use cultural events spaces Mills Hardware and Bridgeworks in 2014 and 2020 respectively. The label left its Wilson Street offices in 2017 and is now headquartered
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in downtown Hamilton thanks in part to a friendly relationship with then-owner Sam Manson, whose namesake sporting goods store had just closed at the same address. The label, which had been operating out of a warehouse in Hamilton’s Corktown neighbourhood, moved in the following year. The basement of
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Operating out of a retail space on the main floor of Sonic Unyon’s headquarters, the Sonic Unyon Record Store showcased the thousands of independent titles stocked in the label’s distribution warehouse, located in the same building. The shop opened in October 1998 and remained in business for almost
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At first, Sonic Unyon exclusively released Tristan Psionic's music, but the label soon began releasing and promoting music by other local bands. Sonic Unyon's first eight releases were issued on individually dubbed, hand-packaged cassettes. The label's first vinyl pressing was a 7" sampler released
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On October 3, 1998, Sonic Unyon marked the label’s fifth anniversary with a celebration that included the release of the Now We Are 5 compilation, the grand opening of the Sonic Unyon Record Store (located on the main level of 22 Wilson Street), an all-ages show at its headquarters, and a licensed
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Sonic Unyon regularly organized concerts in traditional and non-traditional spaces featuring artists on the label's roster, but became increasingly ambitious as momentum behind the young label grew. The label’s first large-scale event, Woolsock, was a one-day festival held in a farm field south of
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In honour of the label’s second anniversary, Sonic Unyon rented the 44-meter yacht Captain Matthew Flinders for a floating party tour of Toronto’s waters on September 17, 1995. Bands playing that party included Change of Heart, Die Cheerleader, and
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their headquarters often held shows, and many local musicians got jobs working for the record label and some would go on to operate their own record labels out of the building.
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Complementing the building's basement hardcore shows and in-store pop-ups, between 2002 and 2007 the label’s third floor space hosted concerts from dozens of bands including
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By 1995, Sonic Unyon had grown to be one of the largest independent labels in Canada. In 1996, Sonic Unyon’s partners purchased a three-storey commercial building at 22
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In 2019, the label released a triple-LP vinyl retrospective, Now We Are 25, as well as a documentary of the same name that featured appearances from artists
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Sonic Unyon also ran hardcore label Goodfellow Records (active 1997-2009), as well as the more mainstream imprint Labwork Music (a joint effort with
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concert in an upstairs hall of the nearby Fortune Village restaurant. The latter concert featured sets from
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In September 2024, the label announced a new event space called Sonic Hall in downtown Guelph, Ontario.
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Gore, Joe (May 1992). "My Bloody Valentine: Kevin Shields Peels Back the Layers of His Sonic Onion".
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Sonic Unyon has produced JUNOfest 2015 and 2022, JUNO Songwriters’ Circle in 2019, and Hamilton's
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in 1994. A compilation, the label's tenth release, followed later that year on compact disc.
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has been named as one of CBC Music’s 100 Greatest Canadian Albums Ever while Sianspheric’s
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a decade, closing in spring of 2008. The label continues to operate an online storefront.
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Spectator, Graham Rockingham Contributing Columnist, The Hamilton (2019-04-11).
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Label headquarters (1997-2017), on Wilson Street, downtown Hamilton, Ontario
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The following artists have made at least one release through Sonic Unyon.
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In 2011, roughly two decades after the term “metal” was stripped from the
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In 2009, Sonic Unyon returned to event production at scale by organizing
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the album that earned them a JUNO Award for New Group of the Year.
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closing celebrations. Sonic Unyon also produced the 2021 and 2023
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Gala and the 2023 edition of CBC Toronto's Sounds of the Season.
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Campbellville, Ontario on August 20, 1994. The lineup included
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The Sonic Unyon building also housed the recording studio of
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by Mark Milne and Sandy McIntosh, guitarists of the band
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Columnist, Graham Rockingham Contributing (2021-08-19).
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Sonic Unyon Opens New Guelph Concert Venue │ Exclaim!
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The label’s current artist roster includes 1365:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 2043:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 2018: 641: 270: 1761: 1332: 638:has been certified Gold by Music Canada. 2186:Sonic Unyon: Now We Are 25 (Documentary) 2021:"The Top 150 Canadian Songs of All-Time" 1996:"The 50 best Canadian songs of the '90s" 1920:"The 50 best Canadian songs of the '90s" 1419:Sonic Unyon: Now We Are 25 (Documentary) 1403:- Hamilton, Ont. 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Index


Universal Music
The Orchard
Alternative
Indie
Canada
Hamilton
Ontario
sonicunyon.com
independent record label
Hamilton
Ontario
Canada
Tristan Psionic
Sianspheric
Shallow North Dakota
Eric's Trip
Hayden
Chore
Frank Black and the Catholics
A Northern Chorus
Raising the Fawn
Teenage Head
Simply Saucer
Voivod
Big Wreck
Danko Jones
Terra Lightfoot
Basement Revolver

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