Polaris Music Prize Short List Announcement

Today is the day we find out which of the forty longlisted albums will make up the final ten to go forward to the prize gala on September 17th, where the winner of the $50,000 [...]

By | July 17th, 2018|Categories: Polaris Music Prize|32 Comments

The Velveteins – All Night Baby

Hey Our Basement, Recently, our friend and director, Henry Acteson, had shown us this old film camera that simultaneously shot four different photos to create moving like images. We loved the vibe and wanted to [...]

By | July 16th, 2018|Categories: Video Release|Tags: |19 Comments

Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar July/2018

It's time for another Release Radar playlist! And not just one playlist but two playlists again this month! Along with our usual Spotify Release Radar playlist, there is a YouTube new video release playlist as [...]

New releases for the week ending July 13th 2018

AHI - In Our Time The music of AHI — a Brampton, ON-born singer-songwriter who splits his time between Toronto and Nashville — shines with positivity. The optimism of his debut, We Made It Through [...]

By | July 12th, 2018|Categories: New Music|Tags: , , , |20 Comments

Petit Reve

Hi Our Basement, Maybe it’s growing up in a small Canadian city, surrounded by nature that inspired me to write the Petit Reve EP. When you have nothing to do, your imagination has to find [...]

By | July 11th, 2018|Categories: New Music|Tags: |20 Comments

Favours – In The Night

Hey Our Basement! Favours are a band that you will never hear from…unless we need something. Born out of personal rediscovery, we sing of the delightful fantasies and harsh realities of adulthood. How fitting that [...]

By | July 10th, 2018|Categories: New Music|Tags: |8 Comments

The Wild Raccoon Podcast for July 2018

For this months podcast, WR gives you his first every road trip mix tape. More music and less talk. What would you have had on there if it was your tape? (we might [...]

Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Albums of 2009

Here we go again! This time we are looking back to Canadian Indie albums of 2009. For those of you that were listening to CBC R3 back in the old days, many tracks will be [...]

New releases for the week ending July 6th 2018

Lunar Lemur - You Can Tell Because The Quantum Cat Version Has An Origami Face Goosebump - Goosebump The band brings Germaphobes members Paul Erlichman and Neil Rankin back together — joining forces with Kirsten [...]

By | July 5th, 2018|Categories: New Music|Tags: , , |15 Comments

Colour Film – Open Road

Hi Our Basement, I’m a musician from Hamilton, ON, who plays under the name Colour Film. Since 2006, I have released four albums and toured throughout North America and Europe, sharing the stage with acts [...]

By | July 4th, 2018|Categories: New Music|Tags: |9 Comments