DarBar’s 50 Favourite Albums of 2020
I know this has been said many times, but this was a very strange year indeed. It was a tough one for many of us and I very much appreciated having music as my companion [...]
Playlist Friday: Mother’s Day
May 10th is Mother’s Day so that is what our playlist is about this week. We start out in a City With No Children, Before the Children Came Along. Then we discover I am Going [...]
Playlist Friday: Regina Folk Fest Recap and The RagTag Misfit Tour
That's right, it is another double playlist week here at OurBasement. Last weekend I spent out in the extreme heat because I love music and couldn't miss it. I will give a bit of a [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Long List Playlist
It's Polaris Music Prize time again. I will be bringing it up for the next few months so get used to it. The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours and rewards [...]
Playlist Friday: Mother’s Day
May 13th is Mother's Day this year so that is what our playlist is about this week. We start out in a City With No Children and then a little Birds & Bees happen in [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Easter
I was going to do another Easter/Spring playlist as I did last year but I added a bunch more tracks to the playlist and it got very long. So this week is just the "Easter" [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Albums of 2006
This week we are taking a trip back in time to Canadian Indie albums of 2006. Our playlists mostly focus on what is new but I thought it would be fun to check back to [...]
Playlist Friday: International Women’s Day 2018
It may be a day late but hey let's keep on celebrating women anyway. Our playlist this week features a lot of great music from a lot of very talented Canadian women. Most of the [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar Feb/2018
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. This has become a monthly thing as [...]
Playlist Friday: Searchlight 2018 Round 1
CBC's Searchlight has begun and the voting is on! We had a post about it on Wednesday that you can read about here. With 2073 artists that have a song entered in the contest, it [...]