Dante Matas – Everything Nearly Fell Apart Completely
Hey Our Basement, I started work on A Colourful Headache immediately after the release of my previous EP, Midnight Sun. I was feeling frustrated – even though I liked the EP, I felt as if [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar April/2018
It's time for another Release Radar playlist! Our playlist this week is all about new songs on our radar this month. Spotify has their Release Radar playlists and we have an OurBasement Release Radar playlist. [...]
New releases for the week ending April 20th 2018
Dennis Ellsworth - Things Change When deciding to call his new album Things Change, Dennis Ellsworth took it as a personal directive. After making four fine—but criminally underappreciated—albums that straddled the line between alt-country and [...]
Marchildon – Sweet Potato Kisses
Hi Our Basement, For the past 13 years, I’ve been hovering silently in the subconscious of the Toronto music scene. Writing, recording and performing country-tinged rock n’ roll songs as often as I can muster. [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 17th April 2018
Look out, the Canadian music industry wants us to pay more for our electronics: Alan Cross If you’re of a certain vintage, you may remember the hysteria manifested in the Home Taping is Killing Music [...]
Deux Trois – Late Night Girls
Our Basement: Sad, late-night masturbation has a home in the seedy underbelly of pop culture - but even though it comes hand in hand (lol) with hook-up culture, distracting yourself from FOMO, and (let’s be [...]
New releases for the week ending April 13th 2018
Jaunt - Cue When we spoke to Toronto-based experimental pop band Jaunt at the start of the year, they seemed poised for a big 2018. So far, so good: they played Exclaim! and Ticketfly's Class [...]
Makk Mikkael – How It Feels
Hi, Our Basement! Hope the day is going great! My new single, “How It Feels,” portrays different layers of angst and emotion. I wrote it during my time in LA while I was dealing with [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 10th April 2018
Liberals look to strike the right note in planned changes to Canada Music Fund The federal government is expected to make long-sought changes next year to a fund aimed at helping Canada's music industry, about [...]
New releases for the week ending April 6th 2018 (Exclaim! edition)
Hey Ocean - The Hurt Of Happiness On their latest release, The Hurt of Happiness, Hey Ocean! are in search of middle ground. From the dance-y synth-pop of "Mama Said" to the cinematic "Just Enough" [...]