Carmanah – Stand Up

Our Basement, If you hate, sit down. If you love with an asterisk that excludes others solely for being different, sit down. If you choose to take for yourself and leave nothing for others, sit [...]

By | July 1st, 2020|Categories: New Music, Video Release|Tags: |2 Comments

Mathew V – Give It All

Hey Our Basement, I wrote "Give It All," my latest single, as a love song to my partner. Finding that most of my songs were sad, I wanted to switch things up and express my [...]

By | June 30th, 2020|Categories: New Music|Tags: |6 Comments

Filed Guide – All The Other Lovers

Hi there, Our Basement! I wrote this song nearly three years ago and recorded it a few times in search of the right ‘vibe’. I had this version half done for nearly 8 months before [...]

By | June 29th, 2020|Categories: New Music, Video Release|Tags: |4 Comments

New releases for the week ending June 26th 2020

Selci - A Soft Place (Ocean Records) A SOFT PLACE by Selci Dave Monks - On A Wave Goes Wild (Dine Alone Records) On A Wave by Dave Monks Ken Tizzard and Music for Goats [...]

Shuffalo – Stay On Me

Hi Our Basement, Our new single, "Stay On Me," was inspired by the narrative of portals in iconic stories we grew up on: Chronicles of Narnia, Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U03rCLMczT8 "Stay [...]

By | June 24th, 2020|Categories: New Music, Video Release|Tags: |5 Comments

Erez Zobary – Blue (For Now)

Hello Our Basement, I’m an all or nothing kind of person. Twenty minutes before I was about to leave for the hospital to get an MRI to confirm my brain tumour as benign, I broke [...]

By | June 23rd, 2020|Categories: New Music|Tags: |3 Comments

The Canadian Independent Venue Coalition launches #SupportCanadianVenues Initiative

Hundreds of concert venues, booking agencies, independent promoters/presenters, production companies and independent music festivals from across Canada have come together, donating thousands of hours of their time and immeasurable resources to launch the #SupportCanadianVenues movement [...]

By | June 22nd, 2020|Categories: Editorial, News|1 Comment

New releases for the week ending June 19th 2020

Braids - Shadow Offering (Secret City Records) Shadow Offering by Braids Chris Bell - Division Street Searching in the Dark by Chris Bell Japandroids - Massey Fucking Hall (Arts & Crafts) Massey Fucking Hall by [...]

The Road Forward

Yesterday not only saw the release of the Polaris long list (thank you DBS) it was also the day that online release of Marie Clements’ musical documentary, The Road Forward, on the nfb's own streaming [...]

Polaris Music Prize Long List 2020

Today is the day of the big reveal of the Polaris Music Prize Long List for 2020. The #Polaris2020 Long List reveal takes place at noon ET / 9 am PT via Polaris YouTube and [...]

By | June 15th, 2020|Categories: Awards, Polaris Music Prize|Tags: , , , |10 Comments