Elk Run & Riot – Animalia
Since forming in 2013, Elk Run & Riot have made it their priority to write songs that reflect who they are and where they live. For the alternative folk outfit, that environment is Alberta’s Bow Valley in the Rocky Mountains, whose natural wonders greatly inspired the group’s third full-length album, Animalia, officially released March 2.(FYI Music News)
Kae Sun – Whoever Comes Knocking
Kae Sun has reached a new plateau with his long-gestating, third full-length offering. The Ghanaian-Canadian vocalist showed great promise with his last two LPs and four EPs, not to mention his short film and installation Oceans Apart. Whoever Comes Knocking is his most cohesive and assured effort thus far.(Exclaim!)
Manitoba Hal – Blues Is In The Water
Sue Foley – The Ice Queen
This Ottawa-based blues guitarist and singer has been under-appreciated on the Canadian scene, though she did win a Juno in 2001 for Love Coming Down. She has always been held in high regard in Austin, TX though. She was based there in the ’90s, recording for the famed Antone’s label, and she returned to the Lone Star state to record this sparkling new album.(Exclaim!)
Suuns – Felt
Suuns roll out Felt just under two years after their exceptional Hold/Still, which by their timetable to date may qualify as striking while the iron’s hot, and the variegated song cycle does well to keep the momentum they built going.(PopMatters)
Good morning!
hello
Gateway 2018, first announcement
Good morning, afternoon, day (choose one). Great Gateway Fest. Nifty poster too.
can I choose more than one?
How many episodes of Murdoch Mysteries do you have to watch in a day for it to be considered an issue?
#askingforafriend
Hello hello! I wonder if I can get my act together to get to Saskatchewan in July, the Gateway Fest lineup looks great!
Yay new music!! SUUNS!! Kae Sun! I saw Sue Foley last year at our Bluesfest and enjoyed her set.
I saw that Gateway Fest announcement Garf. Kathleen Edwards! Woot!!
@DBS, do you plan on trying for a press pass?
I should do that. They shared my post about it last year.
As we say over here, shy bairns get nowt
I’ll have a pound and a half of nowt, please.
it’s very expensive mind
and it would have to be 680grams of nowt, our stores were forced to sell in metric a while ago
We’re still ‘soft converted’, for the most part. Butter in 454 gram size. Tall beer can: 473 ml
Our lumber has remained largely in Imperial measurements, because the US — which strangely enough, did not stray from a common English measurement for the foot or the inch.
we use either in everyday life depending on our mood
we usually use °C but use °F in the summer to make it sound hotter
Here, I find C sounds colder the second it gets “below zero”. That expression really takes on meaning only in Fahrenheit.
it’s -11 with wind chill here at the moment
SNOWMAGEDDON here.
Ottawa: +4.8, the wind’s at most an occasional breeze. Hmmm
Russ: Yeah, you guys got hit! It’s all falling as rain in Toledo, but Detroit’s been blessed!
Accuweather for here
First round of voting for Searchlight closes just before the top of the hour (bottom of the hour in NFLD)
Voting closed yesterday and opens again today.
It is -6C and -11 with windchill here. It is a gorgeous warm and sunny day for us.
Ah, silly me
And voting is open again!
http://www.cbcmusic.ca/searchlight/entries
Not many of the ones I was voting for made it through. 🙁
I was hoping to have a Searchlight Round 2 playlist for tomorrow. We shall see if that happens. There will be a playlist of some sort anyway.
I will see if I can talk WR into recording a special podcast for the Friday after the Final 10 are announced
I am sure you can manage to persuade the rascal.
cookies may have to be involved
I may have to pull out the big guns and offer him jaffa cakes
Garf, you’d have me with a sleeve of Pim’s Orange. And that’s a lot of snow, for Britain!
g’night folks