Animal Collective
"I think we all wanted Strawberry Jam to feel like it was pushing in a very different direction"

The Besnard Lakes
"Everyone is still very curious about Montreal, and having a band like us around makes things that much harder for the media to nail down"

Okkervil River
"All I ask is that you don’t say that I howl..."

Sunset Rubdown
"The response to the first album had a lot to do with Wolf Parade. I wish I could pretend it didn’t, but I’m no dummy"

The Black Dahlia Murder
“It was just one of those things,” he says. “One of those moments in the band where we were like, ‘goddamn dude, this is awesome’.”