Playlist Friday: OurBasement Remembrance Day
The playlist this week is in honour of Remembrance Day. It is important to honour and remember those that have fought and those that have fallen to give us the freedom and peace we have [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness Nov/2017
We are getting back into the flow of the Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness this week. It began back on Sept 23, 2016 with 20 songs that I seeded it with. After five times of [...]
Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Halloween
It's that time of the year again where I pull out the playlist of spooky creepy songs for Halloween. This playlist began back on the old CBC Music site when we could make playlists on [...]
Bend Sinister
On Saturday, October 21 I was able to see a Bend Sinister show again. It had been awhile since I last saw them and I was looking forward to hearing them again. They are on [...]
Playlist Friday: Remembering Gord Downie
Statement from Gord Downie's webpage Oct 17, 2017 Last night Gord quietly passed away with his beloved children and family close by. Gord knew this day was coming – his response was to spend this [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar
Playlist Friday brings us another edition of OurBasement Release Radar. There are almost 100 songs on our playlist that have been released in the last couple months. Some of them are remixes, other songs are [...]
Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Thanksgiving
It's Thanksgiving weekend in Canada so we of course have a Canadian Indie Thanksgiving playlist for you. There are songs about home and family and food and giving thanks for the blessings. It's important to [...]
Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Autumn
It is officially autumn and we have a playlist for the season. Autumn is from Sept 22 to Dec 21 and hopefully will ease us into the next season gently. It may feel like summer [...]
Playlist Friday: WCMA 2017 Winners
BreakOut West was in Edmonton this past weekend, Sept 13-17th, 2017 and the winners of the Western Canadian Music Awards were announced. Below is a list of the nominees with the winners in red print. [...]
Polaris Music Prize 2017
By Darlene Barss Today is the day we discover which artist will win the $50,000 Polaris Music Prize for 2017. I have enjoyed being a part of the Polaris Music Prize process as a juror this year [...]