Library Voices, a seven piece pop collective from Regina, Saskatchewan released their debut EP, Hunting Ghosts (& Other Collected Shorts) in 2008. SPIN took immediate notice proclaiming Library Voices the “undiscovered band you NEED to hear now.” They have been featured in The New Yorker. They have been nominated for a 2010 Western Canadian Music Award for “Independent Album of the Year.” They’ve been mugged twice and lost all their gear twice (once through thef...

Of Monsters and Men is an amiable group of day dreamers who craft folkie pop songs. But last year, the normally mild-mannered six pack—who's releasing their EP, Into the Woods, on December 20—transformed into total rock stars after stomping out their competition during Músiktilraunir, a yearly battle of the bands in their native Iceland. "We just kind of…won," recalls co-singer/guitarist Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir. "We weren...

Towns are an abstract idea, in the same way that music is. The logician would argue that since a town is abstract and music is abstract then a town must be music. Revelstoke is a town in the British Columbian Rockies. One of the most beautiful towns in the world (as most settlements hiding in the mountains are), where the tectonic hands clapped loudly and bent their geological elbows high into the sapphire sky. And the trees laughed and swayed and danced between the snow and the...