Sonica (Canada)
SONICA is a FEMALE FRONTED, five piece prog rock band
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SONICA is a five piece prog rock band, formed in March 2000. Every new band needs a comparison - so here is mine Tool meets Black Sabbath meets Portishead meets Faith No More Sonica is lead by a strong female vocalist, driven by intense high energy guitar, woven around layers of loops, samples, noises, old analogue keyboards and driven by big arena style drums. This band has what it takes to make it big.Band/artist history
Quick facts:
Sonica averaged 1000 downloads per day on mp3.com - 30,000 per month! Over 250,000 total!
Sonica has the #3 selling cd on mp3.com out of thousands of bands. People from Canada, United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, and Japan have bought Sonica's first cd "Magnetic Headquarters".
Sonica just wrapped up production of their debut video "Unexpected" with Triton Films (Swollen Members) producing & Neil Blomkamp (Sunlikestar) directing.
Sonica peaked at #1 overall, on the mp3.com worldwide power pop chart with their single "SOS".
Sonica has had 7 top 20 songs on the power pop chart.
Sonica won 1st place in the Grand Prairie Sun FM radio star search this year. The single "Beautiful & Clean" is being played during prime airtime.Have you performed in front of an audience?We've played 100+ shows all over western Canada. Recently we've had quite a bit of interest in Europe.
Your musical influences
Tool,Black Sabbath, Portishead, Dream Theater,What equipment do you use?
(2)Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier Heads in stereo,
aural exciter, tc multi efects, dbx 160 compressor, evantide multi effects, Gibson, ESP, Paul Reed Smith, Jackson, Ovation, Taylor...
Roland Fantom S88, DW drums, Ernie Ball Bass, Ampeg...Anything else?
What the media has to say:
"If a band is gonna make it big, they need a few things first. Talent helps, as does a few breaks. But one telltale sign of impending stardom: Groupies. And on that basis alone, Edmonton band Sonica seem well on their way to success"
Vue Weekly, (David Dicenzo) Edmonton
"The Net Rockets Sonica to stardom"
The Gateway U of A (Heather Adler) Edmonton
"Sonica pumped up and impressed the crowd before the Wild Strawberries. Their sex o-matic singer dominated the performance with her alluring stage presence"
The Gateway U of A (Kate Rossiter) Edmonton
"Ted Hamelin Jr. writes monster pop hooks"
-Georgia Straight, (J. Lucas) Vancouver
"Ted Hamelin Jr.'s lyrics are exceptional, poetic & very powerful"
-The Chart, national magazine
"One of three Vancouver songwriters to break internationally within 12 months" - predicted by Terry David Mulligan of Muchmusic
"Ted Hamelin Jr. writes with unusual personal conviction - watch him" -Vancouver Province (Tom Harrison)
"There is a provocative soul under the layers of this hard rock act"
-RPM magazine
edmonton,
Canada
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125438
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Comments (18)
hey listened to your one song on the main page. Liked it. If you are looking to record an album we are a local edmonton studio on the southside. We offer packages that are very reasonable for bands to afford also includes a music video full cd and mixing .... so check out my studio www.sixthsenseav.com
Nothing much seems to be happening on the Sonica front these days. Is anything in the pipeline? I'm hungry for new songs!
this is easily the third coolest thing on SoundClick.
easily.
Kristi, you sound freakin' amazing!!! luve the sound of your band.keep up the good work.
Thanks for listening to my stuff. Just checked out "A cold place to sleep". Cool tune. Intro a bit long but nice one nontheless. Some great time changes throughout the song. Good mix/sound quality overall. Keep it up.
Paul
