Fontana North is a Canadian record distribution company and represents the Canadian wing of Fontana Distribution. It is a joint venture between Canadian-based Cadence Music Group and US-based Fontana Distribution. The company was established by MapleCore in 2004 as MapleNationwide, and in 2006, it partnered with Fontana Distribution and was rebranded as Fontana North. It has expanded throughout Canada for pan-Canadian distribution of many music labels. On August 22, 2013 it was announced that they would be teaming up with Distort Entertainment in a joint venture deal with Fontana North acting as the main distributor of the hardcore label. Fontana North won the Independent Distributor of the Year award six years in a row (2008 - 2013) at the Canadian Music Industry Awards, held annually in Toronto as part of Canadian Music Week. Distributed labels Fontana North is affiliated with more than 80 labels, including the following: 2+2 Management AAO Music Alligator Records Astral Music ATO Records Bad Taste Records Black Box Recordings Black Hen Music Bumstead Productions Cobraside Distribution Cooperative Music Cordova Bay Records Dangerbird Records Distort Entertainment Downtown Records Daptone Records Domo Records Drive Records Drip Audio Eleven Seven Music Epitaph Records Endearing Records Fearless Records Fierce Panda Canada Filter Records Half-Life Records Heads Connect Entertainment Hieroglyphics High Tide Music Hopeless Records High 4 Records Hi-Bias Recordings Indica Records Ipecac Recordings j.k. livin' Records Latent Recordings Lex Records Luaka Bop Mad Decent Mailboat Records Make It Real Records MapleMusic Recordings Masalacism Records MB3 Records Ministry of Sound Modular Records Mom + Pop Music Mr Bongo Records Musical Freedom Metal Blade Records Napalm Records Nevado Records Nuclear Blast Palm Pictures Paper Bag Records PH Recordings Pheromone Recordings PHI Grou PIAS Recordings Pipe & Hat Play Records Polar Bear Records Rainbow Quartz Rasa Music RBC Records Red Floor Records Red Telephone Box Records Rekords Rekords Rhymesayers Entertainment Rise Records Rocket Science Records Road Angel Records Salt X Records Sandbag Records Sumerian Records Shangri-La Records SideOneDummy Records Shoreline Entertainment Slaight Music Sonic Unyon Distribution Song Dog Music Sound of Pop Soul Kiss Entertainment Strange Music System Recordings TBD Records Tee Pee Records Tompkins Square Records Tonic Records Turtlemusik Upper Class Recordings Underground Operations URBNET Records Victory Records Vagrant Records VH1 Classics Warp Records Warcon Enterprises William Morris Endeavor Wrasse Records Yazoo Record Group YYZ Records Some labels listed here have only selected titles distributed through Fontana North. Direct-distribution artists A small