Goodbye Honolulu – No Honey
We all know how these band biographies go, right? Friends meet in high school, start jamming, form band in parents’ garage and everyone lives happily ever after. Well, Goodbye Honolulu DID meet in high school [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 28th August 2017
Beer giant shocked by Lund criticism Anger among the province's craft beer devotees over country music singer Corb Lund's toasting Budweiser's Alberta pedigree has surprised a spokesman for the brewing titan. (Sun) In The ‘Prison [...]
New releases for the week ending August 25th 2017
Aron D'Alesio - Aron D'Alesio This record is a one-man show, featuring a one-man band who pieced it all together on his lonesome, from recording and playing each instrument to producing and mastering it — [...]
Terra Lightfoot – Paradise
By Darlene Barss When OurBasement was asked to feature a new video from Terra Lightfoot, I jumped at the chance to do it. I had enjoyed what I had heard from her so far and [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 22nd August 2017
How Rufus Wainwright Finally Became a Joni Mitchell Fan Wainwright discussed the long-standing ban Sunday at the Los Angeles stop of his Northern Stars concert — a tribute to Canada and its great artists. In [...]
Jon Stancer – Dance In The Sun
Toronto singer/songwriter Jon Stancer has released a new video for "Dance In The Sun," one of the standout tracks from his debut solo album, For The Birds. The video beautifully captures the song's dreamy, free-spirited [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar
Our playlist this week is all about new songs on our radar. Spotify has their Release Radar playlists and now we have an OurBasement Release Radar playlist. I hope to make this a regular playlist [...]
New releases for the week ending August 18th 2017
Camille Delean - Music on the Grey Mile Singer-songwriter Camille Delean has lived in many different places, having grown up in small-town Ontario before embarking on a journey at age 17 that led to stints [...]
Cadence Weapon – Talk To Me
Cadence Weapon is here to work. After years of leading the rap avant-garde, the Toronto-based, Edmonton, AB native is more self-assured than ever, making moves in his own lane with no endorsements or sponsorships. In [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 15th August 2017
Music festival that was cancelled due to B.C. wildfire back on for a final night A weekend music festival in southern British Columbia that was cancelled due to an encroaching wildfire was put back on [...]