Arts & Crafts' 10th Anniversary: 10 bands - 10 years

Arts & Crafts, an awesome Canadian indie label, recently celebrated their tenth anniversary. To honour them, here are 10 songs from 10 bands who were, or still are, on Arts & Crafts.

Broken Social Scene with "Almost Crimes" from their 2003 release You Forgot It In People.

Feist with "Mushaboom" from 2006's Open Season.

Dan Mangan with "Road Regrets" from 2009's Nice, Nice, Very Nice.

Chikita Violenta with "Tired" from their 2011 release TRE3S.

Los Campesinos amazing tune "You! Me! Dancing!" appeared on their 2007 EP Sticking Fingers Into Sockets and their 2008 album Hold On Now, Youngster.

Zeus with "Are You Gonna Waste My Time?" from 2012's Busting Visions.

Cold Specks with "Winter Solstice" from her 2012 release I Predict A Graceful Expulsion.

Stars are Arts & Crafts alumni. Here's "Elevator Love Letter" from 2003's Heart.

Phoenix used to be on Arts & Crafts. This is "Consolidation Prizes" from back in 2006 and the album It's Never Been Like That.

Alum Young Galaxy from their 2007 eponymous début with "Outside the City".

This is just some of the beauty that Arts & Crafts has helped share with the world. Visit their site and their bands' sites to check out more.

Thanks for all the great music, Arts & Crafts!

Roni video from Chikita Violenta

Just surfing around Arts & Crafts' web site and I realized I never posted the video for "Roni" by Chikita Violenta from their 2011 TRE3S album.

Enjoy!

Chikita Violenta, Indeed

Just found a cool new band by way of a free song of the day from emusic. They're from Mexico City (worst traffic in the world, but that's another story) and they are heavily influenced by indie rock. The first comparison that comes to mind when I checked out their new release TRE3S and their 2007 release The Stars and Suns Sessions is Broken Social Scene. Who knows, maybe they named it after the track "Stars and Sons" from You Forgot It In People. Anyway, they're called Chikita Violenta and I think they're pretty cool.

Check them out and see what you think.

Here are "Laydown" and "War" from The Stars and Suns Sessions





And here's "Tired" from TRE3S



They even do a cover of "Eight Miles High"