Rob Moir – Sometimes You Gotta Go
Hello Our Basement, Perpetually on the lonesome road, I continue to expand my audience as I perform my songs across the world, making fans the old fashioned way – one dedicated believer at a time. [...]
Ivy Mairi – Strange Love
hi Our Basement, In 2016, I met producer Kieran Adams (DIANA, Vibrant Matter) through a group of friends who frequently congregated at Toronto’s tiny but mighty gathering place and venue, the Holy Oak – RIP. [...]
New releases for the week ending October 12th 2018
Art d'Ecco - Trespasser You'd be forgiven for thinking yourself a trespasser in the world of Art d'Ecco. After all, his is a creative ecosystem that feels so real, so familiar, and yet not quite [...]
LeBarons – Long Highway
Our Basement, It starts with a choice – “hold on tight, or let go and blow away with the wind.” With those opening lines on “Long Highway,” the first single from our forthcoming debut full-length [...]
Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada so we of course have a Canadian Indie Thanksgiving playlist for you. There are songs about home and family and food and giving thanks for the blessings. [...]
New releases for the week ending October 5th 2018
Alexandra Streliski - Inscape There's always been a cinematic quality to Alexandra Stréliski's music, honed from years working in advertising as a composer. In the eight years since quietly self-releasing debut album Pianoscope, slowly the [...]
NEAVV – Keep
Hi Our Basement, I wrote “Keep,” my new single, with Wendy Parr (Regina Spektor and Sara Bareilles’ vocal coach) while on a 2017 writing trip to Nashville. I thought that I had already written all [...]
8 Random Questions with … Jesse and the Dandelions
We recently had the opportunity to ask Jesse and the Dandelions 8 random questions (see if you can work the one WR came up with). 1)Would you like to introduce yourself? Hello there! I'm Jesse [...]
Tokyo Police Club – TPC
Here's another press release we can be excited about! Tokyo Police Club, will release their fourth full-length album, TPC, Oct. 5th on Dine Alone Records. The Ontario quartet announced the album in July with a double [...]
New releases for the week ending September 28th 2018
Johnny Payne - Johnny Payne begins describing tableaus right away on opener “Lazy Love”. “There’s no ending or beginning to the story that we’re living,” he sings, losing track of time. The song, like the [...]