Music of Montreal
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The "Montreal Music Scene" has recently garnered much attention in popular media (The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, BBC, NPR...). The growing success of the current "scene" owes much to a couple of bold local record labels (Alien8 Recordings & Constellation Records), as well as the Pop Montreal Music Festival.
The city's culture, a melting pot of nations from around the world, has produced a variety of artists and bands who are currently enjoying the limelight of "Montreal's music scene".
Montreal's contemporary music scene
- A-Trak
- Aliceffekt
- A Silver Mt. Zion
- Melissa Auf der Maur
- AIDS Wolf
- Arcade Fire
- Bell Orchestre
- The Besnard Lakes
- Champion
- Chromeo
- Code Pie
- Coeur de Pirate
- The Dears
- Dee
- Destaël
- Duchess Says
- Peter Elkas
- Les Georges Leningrad
- Ghislain Poirier
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Grimskunk
- Carl Henry
- Islands
- Nikole Kaye
- Lesbians on Ecstasy
- The Local Rabbits
- The Lovely Feathers
- The Luyas
- M.O.
- Amy Millan
- Patrick Watson
- Puggy Hammer
- Sam Roberts
- Stars
- The Stills
- Les Stups
- Sunset Rubdown
- Tegan and Sara
- Torngat
- Tricot Machine
- The Unicorns
- We Are Wolves
- Wolf Parade
- Velvet Trench Vibes
- Young Galaxy
- Malajube
Source: "Indie nation", Canadian Geographic Online
Montreal's historic music scene
See also: Montreal music groups
- April Wine, Rock band
- Bootsauce, Rock band
- Charlie Biddle, Jazz bassist
- The Box, Rock band
- Gregory Charles, Singer/entertainer
- Leonard Cohen, Poet and singer
- Celine Dion, Pop Singer
- Patsy Gallant, Pop Singer
- Harmonium, Progressive Rock band
- Corey Hart, Singer/songwriter
- Steve Holt Jazz pianist and composer, AC Singer/songwriter
- Norman Iceberg, Singer/songwriter
- France Joli, Disco Singer
- Oliver Jones, Jazz pianist
- Sass Jordan, Rock singer/and currently Canadian Idol judge
- Andy Kim, Singer/songwriter
- Ranee Lee, Jazz singer
- Lime (band), Disco band
- Nancy Martinez, Rhythmic dance singer
- Me Mom & Morgentaler, ska band
- Men Without Hats, New Wave band
- Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir, Founder and director Trevor W. Payne
- Aldo Nova, Rock singer
- Trevor W. Payne, Music teacher, Founder and music director Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
- Oscar Peterson, Jazz pianist
- Rational Youth, New Wave band
- Ginette Reno, Singer/songwriter/actress
- William Shatner, Singer/actor
- David Usher, Singer/songwriter
- Gino Vannelli, Italian Canadian singer/songwriter
- Roch Voisine, French/English singer/songwriter
- Martha Wainwright, Singer/songwriter, sister to Rufus.
- Rufus Wainwright, Singer/songwriter, brother to Martha.