Erez Zobary – Blue (For Now)
Hello Our Basement, I’m an all or nothing kind of person. Twenty minutes before I was about to leave for the hospital to get an MRI to confirm my brain tumour as benign, I broke [...]
The Canadian Independent Venue Coalition launches #SupportCanadianVenues Initiative
Hundreds of concert venues, booking agencies, independent promoters/presenters, production companies and independent music festivals from across Canada have come together, donating thousands of hours of their time and immeasurable resources to launch the #SupportCanadianVenues movement [...]
New releases for the week ending June 19th 2020
Braids - Shadow Offering (Secret City Records) Shadow Offering by Braids Chris Bell - Division Street Searching in the Dark by Chris Bell Japandroids - Massey Fucking Hall (Arts & Crafts) Massey Fucking Hall by [...]
The Road Forward
Yesterday not only saw the release of the Polaris long list (thank you DBS) it was also the day that online release of Marie Clements’ musical documentary, The Road Forward, on the nfb's own streaming [...]
Polaris Music Prize Long List 2020
Today is the day of the big reveal of the Polaris Music Prize Long List for 2020. The #Polaris2020 Long List reveal takes place at noon ET / 9 am PT via Polaris YouTube and [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Music Prize Long List
It is Polaris Music Prize season and I am anxiously waiting to hear who makes it on to the Long List. The jurors votes are in and the official long list will be announced on [...]
New releases for the week ending June 12th 2020
Taggart & Torrens - Bahds (Dine Alone Records) Bazarian - Sight Lines HiFiLo - Speak Your Name Orville Peck - Show Pony EP (Columbia) Rachel Beck - Stronger Than You Know
DYLYN – Call Me What You Want
Hey Our Basement, I’ve been spending the current zombie apocalypse on a rural property on the outskirts of Toronto, listening to Black Sabbath and making demonic masks for my band to wear in the official [...]
Sam the Astronaut – Midnight Carlight
Hey Our Basement, “Midnight Carlight” is the lead single off our upcoming sophomore album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlMl81I_qP8 The song is about feeling trapped in a relationship and the doubt that comes from that. If it’s harder than [...]
Rose Brokenshire – In A Spell
Our Basement, I have been experiencing strange feelings during this period of isolation, time seeming to warp as the days turn to night in the blink of an eye. My new song, “In A Spell,” [...]