Zunior.com - the little digital music store en-US http://www.zunior.com Copyright - Zunior.com XML/RSS feed generator - Zunior.com (PHP version 5.1.6) Dave Ullrich support@zunior.com It's 2012 and time for a new one from the Bidiniband. NOW magazine says "You’ll find lots of variety on the new album by Bidiniband, the Toronto-based four-piece led by author/journalist/former Rheostatic Dave Bidini. Its 11 tracks are playful and driving, flirting with genres (including spoken word) and featuring music-nerd nods to Smells Like Teen Spirit, Brown Sugar, Pinball Wizard, etc. Makes perfect sense considering Bidini’s encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll.". Buy the album for only $8.88 on Zunior today.... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:22:39 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php On recording at the Gas Station on Toronto Island, Doug says "There was no reason for me to make a record at the time. No one was waiting for it anywhere. So I spent most of the time in quiet, listening to and watching the animals – mostly different waterfowl and small birds, lying on the beach, looking wordlessly out to the horizon, finding interesting things to bring back to my portable like stones, beach treasures, butterflies, sticks … It is a beautiful place. It is odd too, because you feel like you are in the middle of nowhere, but you can also feel the huge energetic shadow of the big city right behind you. Agnes Martin’s (a minimalist painter) book entitled ‘with my back to the world’ comes to mind … yes, my back was turned to the world, but the world was also at my back, and over my shoulder too. And so if I went indoors to record something, and it didn’t make me shiver like a good breeze, or warm me on the inside like a crabapple in the sun, I knew that the music wasn’t ripe yet, and I just went back outside to wander.” Buy the new album today for only $8.88 on Zunior.... Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:12:36 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php We are pleased to announce the release today of the new album from Rae Spoon. The album I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets. Graypoint Owls says " Spoon here is a little more electronic than usual. And while electronic music doesn’t come up as the first genre people think of when they think “emotional,” Spoon injects some folk sensibility to make it work spectacularly. While Spoon takes care of the guitar and synths, he gets some help from Scott Munro, bassist for Ghostkeeper and Ryan Bourne among others. Munro’s bass grooves are a huge part of what makes so many of the songs on this album catchy.". Buy the album for only $8.88 on Zunior today.... Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:31:52 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php ...well, before you do you do we recommend you check out some new books we just added from Neil Daniels. Neil interviews some of the most famous rock writers in the world (he's one too) to give you the straight goods on a lost art. His ebooks are only $8.88 on Zunior today!... Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:12:44 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php As our way of saying Happy New Year, the brand new album from Mike O'Neill was made available for a sale shortly after midnight last night. You can pre-order the new 12" vinyl album right here, and get a free download of a bonus 3-song digital EP, featuring "This Is Who I Am" from Wild Lines and two exclusive unreleased tracks. This album has been 7 years in the making and it is a classic. Preview some songs from the album, or pre-order the vinyl, right here.... Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:25:24 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php We wish you all the best from the small team that runs Zunior.com out of Calgary and Toronto. It's been a great year and we thank you for supporting Canadian independent music! Please be sure to check back on December 26 for our massive Boxing Day Sale!... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:06:06 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php ... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:48:45 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php The Zunior Music Label is very proud to present the brand new album from Great Aunt Ida. Nuclearize Me has been five years in the making and it is the confident creation of one of Canada's favourite singer-songwriters. Formerly from Vancouver, Great Aunt Ida now call Toronto home. The music blends classic piano pop with sweet southern textures, fueled by some of the best players from the Great White North. Dial up this one today and give your digital music collection a boost today. Buy Nuclearize Me on Zunior for only $8.88 today.... Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:24:20 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php The 2011 Zunior Holiday Blender is inspired by the amazing album ‘XMAS - The Beatmas’, created by a Danish Beatles cover band called the Rubber Band. This group made an entire album of Beatles songs with the original vocal melody/lyrics switched out with a Christmas classic. This Zunior release features Canadian artists blending classic Canadian songs with vintage holiday lyrics and melodies. Check out new tracks from Mike O'Neill, The Burning Hell and The Violet Archers. Trevor Waurechen, our long-time artistic collaborator, takes inspiration from this musical concept to create his own artistic vision. He blends classic Canadian album covers with Christmas-themed images. Every song has it’s own unique cover created by Trevor, and all covers are included in the album package. 100% of the retail price of this album goes to the Daily Bread Foodbank, and the album package includes a unique cover for each song created by Trevor. You can buy it right here.... Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:44:37 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php Hawksley Workman re-imagines his classic album Almost a Full Moon from 10 years ago with this brand new Full Moon Eleven. He reflects back on the original recording process, which took place a decade ago in Paris, and writes, "In the next ten years an age of fear and darkness would be ushered in. Those songs were the last whiffs of a different time... A time when the flask of whiskey in my coat pocket would raise only a wink and a grin from airport security... A time that wasn't so held by heaviness and government sponsored fear." Buy the album for only $8.88 on Zunior today.... Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:54:45 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php AUX.tv says "Have Not Been the Same is the best book ever written about Canadian music. It should be required reading for our children, part of the same curriculum as Téléfrançais and Voyage of the Mimi. An exhaustive, complete, and essential tome, it explores the “Canrock Renaissance” of 1985 to 1995, a time when it suddenly became cool to come from Canada and listen to bands like Eric’s Trip, the Nils, and the Rheostatics. The book received the ten year anniversary treatment earlier this year, updated and reissued by ECW Press. At its relaunch, co-author Michael Barclay announced a tribute compilation, to be released later in the year, featuring current Canadian indie acts covering the legends featured in the book. That album, Have Not Been the Same – Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die, is now available through Zunior, and is every bit as f**king awesome as it sounded like it would be." Buy the 18-song tribute album for only $8.88, released today on our own Zunior Music Label.... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:38:53 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php Here at Zunior, we love Al's music. He's been at it for years and his albums are all classics. The brand new one is Under Your Shadow and it is another musical and lyrical treat from one of the finest singer-songwriters to ever come out of the east coast of Canada.... Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:48:09 -0500 http://www.zunior.com/news.php The new album from Rich Aucoin is called We're All Dying to Live. NOW Magazine says "Halifax’s Rich Aucoin is best known for his over-the-top live shows, which involve so much audience participation and we’re-all-in-this-together emotion that it would be impossible to capture it on disc. So instead of trying to approximate the sound of the live show, he’s brought on board 500 guests (literally) and augmented his charmingly raw synth-pop songs with so much ornamentation that he succeeds in conveying the intensely communal feeling of his performances with sonics alone." Buy the album for $8.88 today on Zunior and give your digital collection some zip.... Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:14:27 -0400 http://www.zunior.com/news.php About Kathryn's new album, Tiny Mix Tapes says "Calder’s follow-up to last year’s occasionally somber Are You My Mother? maintains some of the melancholy of its predecessor but trades the intimacy of its modest arrangements for bigger and occasionally blinding flourishes of electronic grandeur. Lead single “Who Are You?” is perhaps the best example of the album’s dynamic, all awash in day-glo harmonic vocal samples and belching electronic bass. It’s a shining moment where the former cog in The Immaculate Machine turned New Pornographer slots all the pieces of her evolving aesthetic perfectly into place." Buy Bright and Vivid today for only $8.88 on Zunior!... Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:54:43 -0400 http://www.zunior.com/news.php Although we have had an unfortunate site outage for the past 36 hours, we are back! A database hiccup on our side created an issue that was related to product images and descriptions for some items on the site. The majority of the listings have been corrected but you may still see the odd blip. The Zunior team is working to address all minor issues that may remain but please feel to write us directly at support@zunior.com if you have any questions, or comments. As always, thanks for supporting indendent music from Canada's one and only digital indie music online (little)superstore!... Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:14:14 -0400 http://www.zunior.com/news.php