Ace of Wands – Grown From Good
Hi Our Basement, Motivated by the tarot card of the same name, our music as Ace of Wands is about will and determination – to create and destroy, and to bring about physical, mental, and [...]
New releases for the week ending March 23rd 2018
Dom Fricot - Deserts Deserts by Dom Fricot Dom Fricot’s second album Deserts, the follow up to 2014 debut Sweet Little Fantasy is in many ways an album about death, but not about grief. Set [...]
Bend Sinister – Heard it All Before
Our Basement, we hope today is fantastic! 'Heard it All Before' is a bit of a cynic's anthem, but really it's the feeling we all get any time some dingbat comes to your door trying [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 20th March 2018
Allan Reid, the man behind the Junos, on conspicuous and mournful absences This year’s Juno Awards, broadcast from Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Sunday (CBC, 8 p.m.), will be notable for those absent from the event [...]
Said The Whale Announce Release of As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide Deluxe Edition
JUNO Award winning chart-toppers Said The Whale have announced a deluxe edition release of their 2017 LP As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide via Hidden Pony Records. Released one year after the original on [...]
New releases for the week ending March 16th 2018
Avulsions - Expanding Program If you were to Google ‘avulsion’ you’d be greeted with three very different results – one: ‘avulsion a rapid abandonment channel and the formation of a new river channel’. Two: ‘an [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 13th March 2018
Women at Kitchener's Grand Valley prison release first musical album When she first walked through the doors of the music room at Grand Valley Institution for Women, Bayley didn't know what to expect. "I never [...]
The Wild Raccoon Podcast for March 2018
The 27th of this month will mark 3 years since CBC Radio 3 went from being an internet/satellite radio station with real hosts to streamed playlists, with Grant recording new links that are slotted into [...]
New releases for the week ending March 9th 2018
Actors - It Will Come To You From Vancouver, Canada, Actors electrify with a modern take on post-punk. On debut full-length It Will Come to You, anthemic songs evoke the urgency of early-’80s U2 (Boy, [...]
Nuela Charles – Do It Right
Our Basement, On February 6th, I woke up to news that would change my life. My sophomore record, The Grand Hustle, is among the 2018 JUNO Awards nominees for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year! [...]