Hey! This is my first post, so I'm not sure who's listening, but I want to expand on something posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Sonic Unyon is really shaping up to be a HEAVY label i wonder how treble charger ended up there, i was listening to this radio show last night and they played mostly sonic unyon stuff and most of it sounds like metal! yah i'd think i'd much rather be on murderecords" Alright. If there are any sonic unyon superfans out there, please tell me if you think i'm wrong, but one of the things that annoys me about this label is that sometimes the imagery of the label and tristan psionic overshadows the music of the bands on its own. This sucks, because there is really some great music on the label, from the likes of Sianspheric, Treble Charger, etc. and it sort of feels like you have to peel the unyonskin away to to get to the music. I also notice that many people in S. Ontario list this as the first interesting point about the band. "Hey, have you ever heard of Sianspheric?" "Yeah, they're on Sonic Unyon" when the real answer should be "Yeah, didn't they record their album on the moon?" It's true that the label deserves credit for releasing the fine fine diverse music of lake ontario to the world, and people like Treble Charger, Hayden, and other larger acts w/ releases on SU will probably not be swallowed by the giant sticker on their releases, but it worries me that people will generalize about the music coming from Southern Ontario as "it all sounds like Tristan" as some people would expect all music coming from Seattle to be Nirvanableach, Olympia to be Beat Happening, North Carolina to be Superchunk, Halifax to be Sloan, when we know that none of this examples are true. Why does the label need fame when its acts are successful on their own? It especially worries me because the label has TOTALLY saturated the local indie market. The reputation of the label is such that if I were to put up posters around town that say "SONIC UNYON PRESENTS: Perhaps Love, Niagara's ultimate tribute to John Denver" the show would probably draw 300 skaters and glitter girls. I do recommend that everyone goes out and gets the treble charger release even if you aren't a big fan of the band because it contains an EXCELLENT cd-rom track with information on cool zines like Fuzzy Heads are Better and cool bands like the Inbreds, Hayden, and Wooden Stars. :} Aaalex. &%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%& alexgeddie "i know you think you're deep pobox458 alright fonthillontario but you should stay in the L0S1E0 shallow end" sendstamps!receivezines! -superchunk &%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&
