New City – Getting Closer
Our Basement! We live in a playlist culture. For listeners today, musical genres and divisions are breaking down, and songs live or die on their own merits – no longer dependant on which category they’re [...]
New releases for the week ending March 30th 2018
deadmau5 - where's the drop? Over the decade and a half or so of deadmau5’s career, the Canadian electronic music producer born Joel Zimmerman has been pored over and examined in detail by a rabid [...]
Bossie – Strawberry Moon
Toronto artist Bossie, aka Anne Douris, announced her debut album, Not Pictured, will arrive April 27 on Culvert Music, premiering a video for the single “Strawberry Moon” yesterday via Blackbook. Throughout the album’s 9 tracks [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 27th March 2018
Summer Festival Lineup 2018: Where Are Your Favourite Music Stars Playing? Who’s on the festival circuit this year? Where are your favourite acts playing? Are there weird, epic festivals you’re not even aware of yet? [...]
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 [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar March/2018
It's that time again! Our playlist this week is all about new songs on our radar this month. Spotify has their Release Radar playlists and we have an OurBasement Release Radar playlist. Once a month [...]