ICYMI for Tuesday 24th October 2017
Does moving to Toronto actually help your band? Whether artists in other cities want to admit it or not, Toronto is the centre of Canada’s musical universe, with a gravitational pull that attracts bands from [...]
Hollerado, Little Junior & Calpurnia at the Horseshoe 70th Anniversary Series
Toronto - Friday, October 20, 2017 - Hollerado at the Horseshoe Tavern, with Little Junior and Calpurnia Main Hollerado Photo by Tiffany Leeson This was the second of three nights for Hollerado as part of [...]
New releases for the week ending October 20th 2017
Destroyer - ken Simple. Direct. Obvious. These are not the adjectives normally applied to Destroyer songs. Yet, speaking to Dan Bejar about his project’s 12th studio album, ken, these are the words he repeatedly reaches [...]
Big City Cough – Before This There Was Everything
We are excited to share the release of Sean Beresford's first single, “Before This There Was Everything”, from their debut album Born At Night. Before This There Was Everything was the first song written and [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 17th October 2017
Melissa Etheridge on Her Marijuana Arrest: ‘I Feel Like a Rock Star Now’ Melissa Etheridge says she feels like a “rock star now” that she’s been arrested for marijuana possession. “I’m in good company,” the [...]
Music Video Monday
Edmonton-based roots-rock artist VISSIA has a new video for the bluesy track "Mountaineer" from her hotly anticipated full-length album Place Holder, out Nov. 10 on her own label, Hurry Hard Records. The video, produced and [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar
Playlist Friday brings us another edition of OurBasement Release Radar. There are almost 100 songs on our playlist that have been released in the last couple months. Some of them are remixes, other songs are [...]
New releases for the week ending October 13th 2017
Chastity - Chains Listening to the latest EP by Whitby, Ontario’s Chastity, you feel and inspiring level of energy as they turn anger into something constructive. Throughout its few tracks the band offer a tight [...]
METZ – Making Strange Peace
Toronto-based noise-punk trio METZ have created a short film entitled Making Strange Peace, which captures the band during the recording process of their new album with engineer Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago. Entertainment [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 10th October 2017
Interview: Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade on getting the band back together I’ve been a big fan of Wolf Parade for years – one of Canada’s most iconic indie rock groups, with chronic overachievers Dan [...]