Arts & Crafts Productions

• Name — Arts & Crafts • Parent — Arts & Crafts Productions • Founded — 2003 • Founder — Kevin Drew Jeffrey Remedios • Distributor — Caroline Distribution (US) Universal Music Canada (Canada) • Genre — Indie • Country — Canada • Location — Toronto, Ontario • Url — arts-crafts.ca

Arts & Crafts (also referred to as "A&C") was launched as a music company in 2003 by friends Jeffrey Remedios & Daniel Cutler both former Virgin Records executives as well as Kevin Drew, who co-founded flagship group Broken Social Scene (BSS) with Brendan Canning. 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 was the first band unrelated to Broken Social Scene to sign to Arts & Crafts and officially marked a shift of scope broader than the projects related to Broken Social Scene. A&C began its foray into the digital music business with the launch of GalleryAC.com, a boutique web store that offered digital downloads and Arts & Crafts related merchandise, in 2005. They were one of the first labels to launch a digital download store. In 2004, Remedios expanded the operation into Montreal basing himself out of the offices of DKD who later partnered to form Arts & Crafts International, releasing the gold-selling album Set Yourself on Fire by Montreal-based group, Stars. Arts & Crafts was among the first labels to offer a strategy for combating advance music leaks by offering Stars follow-up album In Our Bedroom After the War for sale before promotional copies were ever manufactured and distributed by issuing wide release as a digital download only 3 days following album completion. In 2009 Rolling Stone cited Remedios as a key insider reshaping the future of the music biz. On 5 April 2017, Caroline Distribution became the US distributor for the Arts & Crafts label in the US. The label was previously distributed by RED Distribution in the US. EMI Music Canada previously distributed the label in Canada, when, in 2013, EMI Music Canada was merged into Universal Music Canada.

Arts & Crafts Music (also known as GalleryAC Music) controls or administers the publishing rights to much of the music released by the Arts & Crafts label. On 14 January 2013, Arts & Crafts announced it would be holding the Field Trip Arts & Crafts Music Festival to commemorate their ten-year anniversary. Signed on to headline are Arts & Crafts labelmates Broken Social Scene, Feist, and Stars. Along with the festival celebration, Arts & Crafts released a rarities compilation titled, Arts & Crafts: 2003–2013. The compilation was released as a double album or four LPs and included selected rarities from across the Arts & Crafts catalog. A second compilation album, Arts & Crafts: X, was released in May and featured newly recorded collaborations between A&C artists.

The 2009 release of This Book Is Broken (House of Anansi Press) documented the rise of Toronto indie bands, focusing especially on Broken Social Scene and the Arts & Crafts roster.

Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene • Country — Certification — Sales/shipments • Canada — Gold — 50,000 Stars Set Yourself On Fire • Country — Certification — Sales/shipments • Canada — Gold — 50,000 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People • Country — Certification — Sales/shipments • Canada — Gold — 50,000 Feist Let It Die • Country — Certification — Sales/shipments • Canada — Platinum — 100,000 Feist The Reminder • Country — Certification — Sales/shipments • Canada — 2× Platinum — 200,000 Feist Metals • Country — Certification — Sales/shipments • Canada — Gold — 50,000

In 2008 Arts & Crafts opened Arts & Crafts México and are recognized as the first independent music company to focus on the independent music market in Mexico, releasing albums by the A&C North American roster as well as being the Mexican home to a number of other successful artists such as Sonic Youth, Bright Eyes, M. Ward, Metric, and The Dears. Arts & Crafts also has a publishing side which represents the rights and royalties of several artists and writers not signed to the label. The roster as of 2026 includes The Beaches, Lowell, Dear Rouge, Jordan Klassen, Blonde Diamond, and more.

• The American Analog Set • Aphasia • Apostle of Hustle • Astral Swans • BadBadNotGood (Canada only) • Tim Baker • Bam Bam (Mexico only) • Bell Orchestre • Black English (Canada only) • Jean-Michel Blais • Haley Blais • Bloc Party (Canada only) • Broken Social Scene • Busty and the Bass • Carca (Mexico only) • Matthew Cardinal • Chikita Violenta • Chilly Gonzales • Cold Specks (Canada only) • Jason Collett • Constantines • The Cribs (North America only) • The Darcys • The Dears (Currently Mexico only) • Deer Tick (Canada only) • Seán Devlin • Gord Downie and the Sadies • The Drums (Canada only) • Ellevator • Farao (Canada only) • Feist (Canada only) • Fleet Foxes (Mexico only) • Foxwarren • FRIGS • Fucked Up (Canada only) • Gabrielle Shonk (Canada only) • Girls (Mexico only) • Gold & Youth • Hayden • HAERTS • Georgia Harmer • Sarah Harmer • The Hidden Cameras • Charlie Houston • In the Valley Below (Canada only) • Japandroids (Canada only) • Tobias Jesso Jr (Canada only) • Kid Koala • Andy Kim • La Force • Leif Erikson • Liza Anne • Los Campesinos! (North America only) • Calvin Love • Lowell • Mia Maestro • Dan Mangan • Majical Cloudz (Canada only) • Memphis • Metric (Mexico only) • Amy Millan • Moby (Canada only) • The Most Serene Republic • nêhiyawak • Neon Indian (Mexico only) • No Joy (Canada only) • OMBIIGIZI • Overcoats • Pavement (Mexico only) • Phoenix (North America only) • Julian Plenti (Mexico only) • Ra Ra Riot (Canada only) • Jay Reatard (Mexico only) • Reuben and the Dark • Rey Pila • Lucy Rose • Röyksopp (Canada only) • Said the Whale • Sally Seltmann New Buffalo • Andy Shauf (Canada only) • Samantha Savage Smith • Snowblink • Charles Spearin • Stars • Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks • Still Life Still • The Stills • Tamino (Canada/US only) • Tei Shi • Timber Timbre • Torres • TR/ST • Tricky • Valley of the Giants • Walrus • M. Ward (Mexico only) • Washed Out • Win Win • Years • Yo La Tengo (Mexico only) • Young Galaxy • Zeus • Zulu Winter (Canada & Mexico only)