Distant Matter – Do You Miss Me?

Hey Our Basement, Birds in the wild see colours differently than humans do. For example, the male yellow-breasted chat has a yellow breast to the human eye, but a bird's eye view reveals ultraviolet iridescent [...]

By | June 29th, 2022|Categories: New Music|Tags: , |Comments Off on Distant Matter – Do You Miss Me?

Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar June/2022

The OurBasement playlist this week is the Release Radar for June 2022 and is full of all the new music Canadian artists created in the last month or so. This week there is a Spotify [...]

By | June 24th, 2022|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |2 Comments

Nurdjana – Do the Right Thing (Revision)

Hi Our Basement, On a day when I missed my dad more than usual, I was reading through some old emails he sent me. One of them read, “Hey Nur, two new song ideas, love [...]

By | June 20th, 2022|Categories: New Music|Tags: , |1 Comment

Playlist Friday: Father’s Day and Indigenous People’s Day

It is a double playlist week! There is a Canadian Indie Father's Day playlist and a National Indigenous History Month playlist. Bonus! June is National Indigenous History Month and June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples [...]

Kadeema – Lately I’ve Been Hoping

Hey Our Basement, Our new song, the first release since our 2020 debut EP, Napoleon Tornapart, was written in 2020, when we didn’t get to see much of anyone other than each other. We couldn't [...]

By | June 15th, 2022|Categories: New Music|Tags: , |1 Comment

Luke Warm and the Cold Ones – Kip City

Hello Our Basement, It can be so easy to lose sight of what really matters in life when you're focused on pleasing everyone else, living in the moment too much, or constantly chasing temptation. Our [...]

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Playlist Friday: DarBar’s 2022 Polaris Long List Wish List

It is Polaris Music Prize season and I am anxiously waiting to hear who makes it on to the Long List. The 2022 Polaris Event Season will kick-off with the Prize’s 40 album Long List [...]

Casey Møøn – home

Hello Our Basement, My name is Casey Møøn and I’m a genre-defying multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and half of the production duo Zookids. Having handled production for artists such as Young Thug, Gunna and Boslen, writing for [...]

By | June 7th, 2022|Categories: New Music, You should be listening to...|Tags: , |Comments Off on Casey Møøn – home

Pedal Generic – Longing

Hi Our Basement, This is Pedal Generic – I’m a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and audio engineer who has been making music for over 6 years with a goal to make sounds that make me feel bigger [...]

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Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar May/2022

The OurBasement playlist this week is the Release Radar for May 2022 and is full of all the new music Canadian artists created in the last month or so. This week there is a Spotify [...]

By | June 3rd, 2022|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |1 Comment