Playlist Friday: Searchlight 2018 Round 1
CBC's Searchlight has begun and the voting is on! We had a post about it on Wednesday that you can read about here. With 2073 artists that have a song entered in the contest, it [...]
Playlist Friday: Emotions of Love
It's triple playlist week here in OurBasement. Valentine's Day is just around the corner and it brings up all kinds of emotions for people. There are some who want all the love and hearts and [...]
Playlist Friday: Black History Month in Canada
Our playlist this week is in honour of Black History Month. I have updated the playlist from last year with some new tracks from some of our fabulous musicians in Canada. The theme of Government [...]
Playlist Friday: Tu B’Shevat
The playlist this week is a celebration of trees because it is Tu B'Shevat soon. Yay for trees! Tu BiShvat (Hebrew: ט״ו בשבט) is a Jewish holiday occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar Jan/2018
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. This has become a monthly thing as [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Stream of Consciousness
This week our playlist is taking us back to our Stream of Consciousness. This playlist stream started back in September 2016 with one Canadian Indie song and then a word in the title of that [...]
Playlist Friday: New & Rejuvenated
Playlist Friday has our first playlist for 2018 and it is all about being new & rejuvenated. We are bringing in the new year with a group of songs about new things, fresh starts, changes [...]
The R3:103 for 2017
On December 21st CBC Music posted the Radio 3 end of year list for 2017. The list, usually known as the R3:103, would make up much of the holiday programming, but this is hard to [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Best Albums of 2017
The playlist this week is my list of the best albums of 2017. It is actually more like my favourite Canadian Indie albums of 2017. There are a couple albums that are on a lot [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Christmas Holidays
Tis the season to listen to a lot of great Canadian Indie Christmas music! This is another playlist that began back on the CBC website and then I brought what I could over to Spotify. [...]