Arts & Crafts
Website: http://www.arts-crafts.ca
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/artsandcraftsrecords
Arts & Crafts Productions is a Toronto-based independent artist services company, offering expertise as a record label, management firm, merchandiser, and music publisher both in Canada and internationally. Launched in 2002 with the release of Broken Social Scene’s critically acclaimed album, You Forgot It in People, Arts & Crafts has released forty-nine albums from twenty-six artists, earning twelve JUNO Awards along the way. Arts & Crafts is regularly touted as one of Canada’s most important record labels.
Arts & Crafts (also referred to as “A&C”) was launched as a music company in 2002 by Jeffrey Remedios, a former Virgin Records executive, and Kevin Drew, founder of flagship group Broken Social Scene (BSS). The partnership was originally intended as a vehicle for self-release and artist management of Broken Social Scene's breakthrough album You Forgot It in People, and the structure quickly formed as a platform to release albums and manage the careers of artists directly affiliated with members of Broken Social Scene. In addition to BSS albums, the label's first releases were by Stars, Jason Collett, Feist, Apostle of Hustle and Valley of the Giants.
In 2005 The Most Serene Republic became the first band unrelated to Broken Social Scene to sign to Arts & Crafts, marking a broadening of the label's scope beyond Broken Social Scene. A&C began its foray into the digital music business in 2005, when it launched GalleryAC.com, a boutique web store that offers digital downloads and Arts & Crafts related merchandise. Arts & Crafts were one of the first labels to launch a digital download store. Arts & Crafts Music (also known as GalleryAC Music) controls or administers the publishing rights to most of the music released by the Arts & Crafts label.
- Amy Millan
- Apostle of Hustle
- Bell Orchestre
- Brendan Canning
- Broken Social Scene
- Charles Spearin
- Constantines
- Gentleman Reg
- Gonzales
- Jason Collett
- Kevin Drew
- Still Life Still
- The Hidden Cameras
- The Most Serene Republic
- The Stills
- Timber Timbre
- Years
- Zeus
Artist News
-
Two more new Broken Social Scene tracks!
March 24, 2010 | Just six weeks out from the release of their much-awaited new lp, Broken Social Scene have released another two tracks, and are asking fans to vote for them so they can give 100k to charity. There's more…
-
Jason Collett: Rat a Tat Tat
March 18, 2010 | Hot on the heels of labelmates Broken Scene announcing their upcoming new lp, Canadian singer-songwriter Jason Collett has given us Rat a Tat Tat, his new lp and the follow up to 2008's much-loved Here's To Being Here. There's more…