Art d'Ecco - Trespasser You'd be forgiven for thinking yourself a trespasser in the world of Art d'Ecco. After all, his is a creative ecosystem that feels so real, so familiar, and yet not quite [...]
Our Basement, It starts with a choice – “hold on tight, or let go and blow away with the wind.” With those opening lines on “Long Highway,” the first single from our forthcoming debut full-length [...]
For this months edition, we celebrate LGBT+ history month Queer Infinity, from, Where the Words End and My Body Begins, by Amber Dawn Queer grief is a blueprint. We got this shit wired [...]
Alexandra Streliski - Inscape There's always been a cinematic quality to Alexandra Stréliski's music, honed from years working in advertising as a composer. In the eight years since quietly self-releasing debut album Pianoscope, slowly the [...]
Hi Our Basement, I wrote “Keep,” my new single, with Wendy Parr (Regina Spektor and Sara Bareilles’ vocal coach) while on a 2017 writing trip to Nashville. I thought that I had already written all [...]
We recently had the opportunity to ask Jesse and the Dandelions 8 random questions (see if you can work the one WR came up with). 1)Would you like to introduce yourself? Hello there! I'm Jesse [...]
Johnny Payne - Johnny Payne begins describing tableaus right away on opener “Lazy Love”. “There’s no ending or beginning to the story that we’re living,” he sings, losing track of time. The song, like the [...]
Hi, Our Basement, I had a conversation one night with Bill Murray about love, marriage, and all the weirdness in between. At one point, he said, “you’ve got to meet the mother.” I thought about [...]
Good morning Our Basement, “It’s Not Real” is where everything started, about three years ago when I first moved to Toronto. It’s a song about change and how surreal it was to relocate from rural [...]
Hello Our Basement: Whitehorse is a very personal song about youth, change, letting go. I lived in the Yukon for twenty years. Twenty. Years. I didn’t plan to stay so long. Like most people I [...]