By Regina Sienra
Edmonton indie folk pop band Scenic Route to Alaska have released a new song called “Coming Back”. This is also the first single from their upcoming record, Long Walk Home. The new album from will be released in late September.
“Coming Back” was produced and mixed by Howard Redekopp, who has worked with The New Pornographers, Hannah Georgas, Fast Romantics and Dear Rouge. The video for this song was directed by Edmonton photographer Cory Johnn.
Scenic Route to Alaska are songwriter Trevor Mann on guitar and vocals, Murray Wood on bass and Shea Connor on drums. The band released their debut, self-titled EP on July 2011, and have toured across Canada and Europe with Warrington, their sophomore album.
Check out the video for “Coming Back” below. The song is available for purchase on Bandcamp, and you can stream it in on Spotify.
I know they are not Canadian but
The Muppets’ Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem Outside Lands 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qByRZd0nW3I
Good morning!
Hello
How is everybody today?
(expectant silence)
I’ll just keep talking to myself then
Alllll byyyy myyyy seee-eeee-elf
don’t wanna be alllll byyyy myyyy seeeeeelf any more
CARAS Strikes Hall Of Fame Committee
Allan Reid, President of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, says the call for increasing the number of annual inductees from members and outsiders is being heard, but the Academy is taking a studied approach to changing its rule book.
“There is a lot to be considered before we start adding more names,” Reid said Friday in response to an article in FYI that noted a growing chorus of people pressing for change, and for the late Bobby Curtola to become an inductee.
Good morning
Plants and Animals is on KEXP
Bobby Effing Curtola’s not in the HoF???
Nothing much more to be said about the need for reform. IMNEHO
also, happy monday ! ! !
Pkew Pkew Pkew on CFRU.
Good morning everyone!
Good morning. This thing still work?
Good morning!
Thanks for the post @Reg! Thumbs up on the new song & video. Poor Murray…
FIre ban here. Very dry. There’s a chance of rain at the end of the week. Drought makes me so nervous…*bites nails
Hello Mr Hower, Just about, yes
@luckymaloo – Drought? When was the last time it rained? And where are we talking about? Ontario?
Lee, Ottawa and surrounding areas are in a drought. No fires; swamps-wetlands (pick your fave) are down or dry, etc.
@Benoit, well that explains the “no fires” in Teeter’s post on camping at Bon Echo PP. Thanks. But when was the last time it rained?
Hellooo!
Hey Lucky. Thanks for reading 😀 And thanks to Benoit for sharing it.
I don’t think we’ve had “rain” since May; only storms and cloudbursts, none of which have been close to sufficient. Trees are stressed (and have been for years, more often than not). Big wind then comes and crack!, down comes the tree.
El Nino’s still imposing a blocking pattern.
(welcome!)
@Benoit, interesting how different Ontario is from California. We haven’t had rain since probably April, but we don’t expect it either. All a hot summer will do is stop the campfires and open fires outside of actual campgrounds. But it’s crucial that we get decent rainfall and snowfall over the winter. We got it last year.
I’m interviewing A tribe called red for work in 40 minutes!
@Reg, Don’t forget to mention Our Basement 🙂
Hollerado – 111 Songs Digital Download for $10
From February 2014 until February 2015, Hollerado was holed up in Royal Mountain Studios making “custom songs” for fans who had pre-ordered their previous record. The result was an astonishing 6 hours of music in the form of 111 songs.
My interview has been moved to 6 PM ’cause there are some “Connection issues with Canada”.
Weeeell
How was your weekend? I went to a party at Chez taxidermy. The rich uncle of my friend’s boyfriend threw a party for him. between the tiger, the polar bear, the zebra rug and a dozen deer heads.
(.___. )
My weekend consisted mostly of watching The Olympics and playing on my kindle
@Garf The Olympics indeed! Did you see our soccer team spent the first half losing to Fiji? F I J I !!!
I think Mexico’s hopes are in diving and tae kwon do (sp?)
If it makes you feel any better Brazil drew 0-0 with Iraq in Soccer and the USA just beat Fiji in Women’s Sevens Rugby
Taekwondo according to the BBC
I’m just waiting for Canada to beat Australia and GB to beat NZ to make it a Canada GB final in the Women’s Sevens
@Garf Bahaahha, It does help. I just know people expected it to be a 10-0 so starting by losing was upsetting.
Are there different types of rugby or is Sevens just a name?
Rugby Sevens is played on a normal sized ruby pitch but with 7 players on the field for each team at any one time (with 5 substitutes available at any time) and the play 7 minute halfs (10 minute halfs for the medal games)
Oh and the Williams sisters and Murrey brothers went out in the first round of their respective doubles tournament yesterday
listening to CFRU at the moment, it’s very good, thanks Russ! and will switch over for a Wolf Parade performance on KEXP at 12 noon pacific time.
I don’t know a thing about rugby, other than being a very aussie/NZ/british/irish badass sport
We camped in between a bunch of Trump-supporter types.
@Reg, Argentina used to have a decent rugby team
@Russ Camped where?
@Garf Oh really? It makes sense with their heavy european influence.
Jeeze, Russ, that’s really unfortunate.
State campground about an hour west of here.
We kinda felt sorry for them.
Aw Geez! Sorry to hear that @CNDz1 ….
On cool non-Canadian stuff that happens in Canada, the Guillermo del Toro exhibit will be on the AGO from September 2017 to January 2018.
Also, Olympics-wise, Canada beat the US at volleyball. Apparently that’s a big thing, an upset.
@Benoit I saw the first part of that match while I was eating at a restaurant.
Also, every time my mom has come across a Canadian or a Canadian team playing or in a competition, she calls them “my relatives”.
reg: HAH! You might retort “my boyfriends”. Or not…
@Benoit Hahahahaha. I bet she’ll use that name too, just give her a couple days.
“Extended Family From The North”
@Russ Indeed, that’s what crosses her mind, I’m guessing.
Mexicans are “Mexico” or “we”, hahaha.
Speaking of which, I think the diving competition is about to start. Wondering if there are in-laws (bahahaha) there too.
The CBC might kick me out BUT I get to watch all the competitions for free online, thanks to the richest man in the world*, who bought out the broadcasting rights from the biggest TV companies (he also gave the rights to Public broadcasters so it’s not like internet-less people have no way to watch). Was it a business move? probably, but I find it pretty amusing, The biggest broadcasters are pretending the Olympics don’t exist. Like, if the CBC pretended NHL didn’t exist on it’s sports sections when Rogers got the rights.
*Carlos Slim. Not sure if he’s still there. Maybe on the top three
Off-topic but more on topic, I guess.
Quitters is hiring! Want to be Kathleen’s booze intern, Benoit?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BI28FKsAyGq/
( I didn’t know they were a bar too!)
Not sure Kathleen likes me too much. he’s got character, and I tend to come on directly.
(We’ve been aware of each other since she was, I dunno, 18?, and playing the Sheep as a total local unknown.)
Oops, dropped ‘”S”: “She’s got character…”
I wonder if she would be willing to hire a scruffy limey
Also: Quitters. Is. Still. Using. Annoying. Periods.
@Benoit You know-know Kathleen?!
The Mexican pair is in 4th (just behind the Brits) after 3 rounds
@Garf I’m probably more nervous than their mothers.
Wolf Parade is playing live right now on KEXP!
http://kexp.org/player/LivePlayer.aspx
Not in such a way that we’re buddies or anything, but yes, her being aware of me as a person — always older than her — and me of her (“whyyyyyy, it’s……… Kathleen Edwards!”, I’ve said probably four times or so, when I saw her hanging around the dark corridor next to the bar at the Black Sheep), that being aware goes back a really long time. 1999? 2001? I don’t have that kind of memory, but I did look up the wiki, so it’s plausible (years before “Failer”).
So, yes, as far as it goes (not far), I “know know” her.
Oh, my 12:48 —-> reginula
From the wikipedia page about Kathleen Edwards: “She insists that she is not leaving music but just taking a break, and that the name Quitters is “kind of tongue-in-cheek”.”
I miss her singin’. Great, pathetic voice. And by that I mean “full of pathos”.
justingrady, yes…who else is plugged into the Wolf Parade performance?
this song Dinner Bells is striking a chord
my wifey is sad because we just sent our son off to college
I bet your banker is too.
Russ, wrong, bankers are *happy* to finance university. (Think Mr Burns rubbing his hands and saying “Exxxxxcellent!”)
And in the US anyway, student debt is exempt from bankruptcy laws, meaning you can’t use bankruptcy to escape it.
I take it you’re talking about the TV Mr Burns (not micelf).
Oh, ahaha, yestheTVMrBurns!
next year i’ll have 2 in college and it’s really going to drain my retirement portfolio, so yes the banker is not going to like that
Just finished my interview with DJ NDN from A Tribe Called Red. He is very lovely (and even said it was a great interview n_n)
good job Reg, looking forward to that
@hotpatch, I think the interview was for her day job
@Hotpatch @Garf Yeaaah, it’s for my day job ( ._.) But you’ll probably hear from it!
good afternoon friends.
i just waisted almost two hours waiting for a video conference call that never happened.
time to turn up the tunes and change the attitude!!!
@reginula we can use google translate to enjoy your interview right? where would i find your interviews anyway? my kid loves tribe called red too.
@Morgana Absolutely! It will come out before the album release date, like mid september (and I’ll let you know when it comes out), BUT! You can find all my day job writings here! (thanks!)
There’s the PUP one, one with Jordan Klassen, and lots of other things! I spent last week reviewing a bunch of Mexican movies from a film festival.
@reginula very cool! my family is together for a few days before we splinter off for more summer adventures but i will find time to admire your work in detail soon!
@Morgana That’s awesome! And thanks again 😀
@garfy i have not yet thanked you for the Mercury Prize playlist you shared here. I think I saw (live streaming to my home, not in person) Bat for Lashes a few years ago at Coachella. Any who, loving the playlist so thanks for that 🙂
well i have tried streaming KEXP on a number of occasions, and again now but I can never get past the buffering. bah!
Morgana, if you have iTunes (in any manner, not signed in is good enough), then KEXP is there, under Alternative Rock (the category where R3 used to be) (snif)
Contrats Canada
What did “we” do?
Beat GB to win bronze in the Rugby Sevens
@ b from o i never did go through i tunes for R3. honestly i have spent five minutes in iTunes now and can’t find it. I know this is total operator error because I am super tired right now …
something i usually have success with is plants! i am going to go and do the next planting of lettuce …
In iTunes, click on ‘Internet’; then on ‘Alternative Rock’; then in alpha order, on KEXP.
g’night folks