THE WEAKERTHANS Frontmann John K. Samson plant eine 7 Inch Serie zu Ehren diverser Straßen in Manitoba. Das erste Release wird dementsprechend mit "City Route 85" betitelt sein. In Deutschland soll ein Release via Grand Hotel Van Cleef Records erfolgen. Samson gegenüber Exclaim:
"[The release is] the first part in a planned series of three or four seven-inches I want to write and record about different roads and highways in Manitoba... City Route 85 is otherwise known as Portage Avenue, one of the main streets in Winnipeg, and the songs are set in three different locations along the avenue. The next two releases will come out sometime in the [next] 18 months, I hope, and will be set north and southwest of Winnipeg."