New releases for the week ending September 1st 2017
Discolor Blind - Long Vivid Dream The Long Vivid Dream opens up before the listener as if it were the prelude to an awakening, the moment where the mind is unawares of whether it is [...]
Goodbye Honolulu – No Honey
We all know how these band biographies go, right? Friends meet in high school, start jamming, form band in parents’ garage and everyone lives happily ever after. Well, Goodbye Honolulu DID meet in high school [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 28th August 2017
Beer giant shocked by Lund criticism Anger among the province's craft beer devotees over country music singer Corb Lund's toasting Budweiser's Alberta pedigree has surprised a spokesman for the brewing titan. (Sun) In The ‘Prison [...]
Blood and Glass – Hop the Fence
Through his black and white lens, Kaveh Nabatian directs this ravishing number. He follows the band’s frontwoman, Lisa Moore, alongside six dancers as they move gracefully and hide behind their hand-held fans. Exquisitely glamorous? Not [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Band Association
The playlist this week was inspired by a conversation on the hill at Interstellar Rodeo last weekend with myself, Loweeda and Liz. The Dead South were coming up and Liz was commenting on how the [...]
New releases for the week ending August 25th 2017
Aron D'Alesio - Aron D'Alesio This record is a one-man show, featuring a one-man band who pieced it all together on his lonesome, from recording and playing each instrument to producing and mastering it — [...]
Terra Lightfoot – Paradise
By Darlene Barss When OurBasement was asked to feature a new video from Terra Lightfoot, I jumped at the chance to do it. I had enjoyed what I had heard from her so far and [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 22nd August 2017
How Rufus Wainwright Finally Became a Joni Mitchell Fan Wainwright discussed the long-standing ban Sunday at the Los Angeles stop of his Northern Stars concert — a tribute to Canada and its great artists. In [...]
Jon Stancer – Dance In The Sun
Toronto singer/songwriter Jon Stancer has released a new video for "Dance In The Sun," one of the standout tracks from his debut solo album, For The Birds. The video beautifully captures the song's dreamy, free-spirited [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar
Our playlist this week is all about new songs on our radar. Spotify has their Release Radar playlists and now we have an OurBasement Release Radar playlist. I hope to make this a regular playlist [...]