Basset – In the Clay
Hi Our Basement, We're Sam Clark and Yasmine Shelton. Together we are the folk-duo Basset. We call Toronto home, and this gritty, massive, in-your-face, messy place is woven deep into the music we create. Through [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Instrumental Music
This month in the genre series, we will be checking out some of the latest Canadian Indie Instrumental Music. Every month or so, the plan is to take a deeper listen to different genres in [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Music Prize Short List Wish List 2022
The Polaris Music Prize Short List will be revealed on Thursday, July 14. The playlist today has my Polaris Music Prize Short LIst Wish List. I was only 1/5 on my ballot for the Long [...]
Playlist Friday: Canada Day
Happy Canada Day! There is over 9 hours of music about Canada, the good and the bad. This playlist has been growing over the years with most of the songs celebrating this country. It may [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]