This wacky Montreal collective is Canada's hopeful answer to Beck: The twenty-plus-piece group offers a cut-and-paste mix of hip-hop, alternative rock, schmaltzy Muzak and jazz with gimmicky song titles like "Highway to Heck" and "Gimme Sheldon." This Nineties approach has charmed our northern neighbors, who have rendered Bran Van's album gold.

Created and led by DJ, remixer and music-video...

Discosis, slated for a late spring/early summer release via Grand Royal Records, will be BV3's first offering since 1998's Glee, which spawned the danceable hit "Drinking In L.A."

The fourteen-track record was principally recorded at New York's Electric Ladyland Studios with further sessions in Los...