Capital City Records

Capital City Records celebrates Edmonton's music scene and its history. This special digital collection includes some of Edmonton’s best contemporary local music, as well as a gig poster archive and NTT Films' Dead Venues documentary. Anyone can stream albums and, with your library card, you can download your favourite tracks.

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Capital City Records: Stream Local Music

Stream and download a growing collection of albums by Edmonton local musicians. Includes gig posters and music documentaries.

Self-Releasing Music: Getting Your Songs Out Into the World

Mar 25th | 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Online Event
Want to release your own music? Musician-in-Residence Olivia Street will help independent artists feel more organized before launch day.

Meet Your New Capital City Featured Creators

Get to know the three talented new Capital City featured creators who will be hosting library programs and sharing their work with Edmonton.

Featured Musician

Saint Idiot (Tomáš Andel)

Saint Idiot (Tomáš Andel) is a Slovak-Canadian art/avant-pop musician, multi-instrumentalist, and producer living in Edmonton. He most often finds himself writing his way through doubt, grief, and whatever else comes up when we risk feeling deeply in an often unfeeling world. Even so, his songs have been described as reverent and downright ecstatic—a “music of surprises.” People often compare his music to that of artists like Sufjan Stevens and Björk.

 

Past Featured Musicians

Events

Throughout the year, EPL hosts Capital City Records concerts, partnering with local festivals and music organizations along with hosting live music performances and music programming in our branches. Check out pictures from our past events and stay tuned for more information about future events!

Riversides: The Capital City Record

Supporting Milner Studios

To raise support and awareness for the new free recording studios at Stanley A. Milner Library, we produced a limited edition compilation on vinyl, a first for public libraries.

Every element of its production was local. A jury of local music experts selected previously unreleased tracks submitted by Edmonton musicians and the record—pressed at Moonshot Phonographs—launched as an official Record Store Day release at Blackbyrd Myoozik on April 13, 2019.

The project was made possible through support of the Edmonton Arts Council who funded the album artwork and musician honorariums. If you would like to purchase a copy, please contact us at localmusic@epl.ca.

About the Artwork

Jill Stanton is a Canadian artist and muralist, with private and public clients nationwide.

"For the Capital City Records album artwork, I wanted to create a dreamy interpretation of the river valley through each season. The black background help the bright colours burst forward, and the cutout shapes create an all-over pattern where small 'easter eggs' hidden in the composition pop forward with a second visual pass. The sihouetted figures interact with giant instruments and organic elements, heightening the surreal, dream-life feel of the piece." — Jill Stanton

Meet the Musicians

All of our Capital City Records artists are amazing, and we couldn't ask for a better collection of local music! The 12 artists and songs that were chosen from the 126 track submissions represent the incredible talent and diversity in Edmonton.

How did we accomplish the task of selecting tracks for this album from the many amazing songs and artists in Capital City Records? A jury made up of local music scene supporters listened to all 126 tracks submitted to bring you the songs that make up this piece of local music history!

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