Arbutus Records is a Montreal

Montreal

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 based record label

Record label

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 and arts community. The community began as a 4600 square foot Mile End loft space called Lab Synthèse; the label itself was created in order to cultivate and promote the bands associated with the space. Arbutus is not a traditional record label

Record label

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: though its main focus is music, the label has also published two novels, and plans to start a film roster. The label defines itself as a community of multimedia artists and musicians that subsists through a DIY ethic

DIY ethic

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, friendship, and collaboration. It has also been described as the vessel for an artistic movement where punk ethos

Punk subculture

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 and pop music

Pop music

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 collide.

Arbutus is run primarily by Sebastian Cowan, Marilis Cardinal, and Jasper Baydala. It also has a digital subsidiary

Subsidiary

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, Movie Star, which largely features the side or solo projects of bands on the label.

Arbutus Roster

Blue Hawaii

Grimes

Pop Winds

Sean Nicholas Savage

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