LeBarons – Long Highway
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 [...]
Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! 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. [...]
New releases for the week ending October 5th 2018
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 [...]
NEAVV – Keep
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 [...]
8 Random Questions with … Jesse and the Dandelions
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 [...]
Tokyo Police Club – TPC
Here's another press release we can be excited about! Tokyo Police Club, will release their fourth full-length album, TPC, Oct. 5th on Dine Alone Records. The Ontario quartet announced the album in July with a double [...]
New releases for the week ending September 28th 2018
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 [...]
Johnathan Rice – Meet The Mother
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 [...]
Pleasure Craft – It’s Not Real
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 [...]
Kim Barlow – Whitehorse
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 [...]