CITY SLANG

This week, Alex Zhang Hungtai of DIRTY BEACHES and LAST LIZARD records some answers to burning questions, including a description of performing at David Lynch's bar that's straight out of a David Lynch movie! plus learn about accepting culture through food, and the appeal of dirty old man literature.

Emmanuel plays a 90s set, a third language set, and Travis plays a tape segment!

Hear these tunes:

Dirty Beaches - Water Park OST - Water Park Theme
Dirty Beaches - Drifters - Elli
Last Lizard - Unreleased - Detroit (excerpt)
Dirty Beaches - Badlands - Horses
Dirty Beaches - Golden Desert Sun 7" - Night Drive
Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best
Dirty Beaches - Stateless - Time Washes Away Everything
Dirty Beaches - Drifters - Casino Lisboa

The Coneheads - Total Conetrol - 'Notha Thing
Trrash - Trrash Demo - Trrashy
Pop. 1280 - Penetrate 7" - Krankenschwester

Amdi Petersen’s Arme - Amdi Petersen’s Arme - Skate Og Do
Gorilla Angreb - Aborted 2000 EP - Livstid
Knugen Faller - Lugna Favoriter - Lugna Favoriter
Davila 666 - Tan Bajo -  Obsesionao
Masshysteri - Var Del Av Stan - Var Del Av Stan

Eric’s Trip - Forever Again - December 93
Sebadoh - Bakesale - Rebound
Jale - So Wound - Ali
Thrush Hermit - Smart Bomb - Radio Blaster

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_84_-_DEC_15_2014.mp3
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We interview Montreal’s MOSS LIME in the back of a car, and find out about their worst toilet memories and secret art collections!

Then, an interview with Toronto’s BLONDE ELVIS about their rampant alcohol abuse!

Plus Emmanuel and Travis put themselves through the CITY SLANG questionnaire and talk about their worst jobs ever!

We play these tunes:

Moss Lime - July First - Ice Cream Sandwiches
Moss Lime - July First - July First
Moss Lime - July First - Calabria 2014
Moss Lime - July First - Sac À Douche

Homeshake - In The Shower - Making a Fool of You
Alex Calder - Fatal Relay - Someone
Ausmuteants - Order of Operation - Boiling Point

Blonde Elvis - Single - Slow Fall on Egypt
Blonde Elvis - Single - Fit For Her

Mavo - 7” - Totally Tired
Eagulls - Eagulls - Nervous Endings
Ex-Cult - Ex-Cult - Shattered Circle

VVhile - VVhile - Nobody Knows

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_83_-_DEC_1_2014.mp3
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Lesley of BONNIE DOON interviews HSY! Two classic CITY SLANG guests that that guest great together!

 

Plus, Emmanuel plays bands from Not Dead Yet fest! Alanna plays braaaaaaand new tunes! Travis sends in a rippin' hardcore set.

 

Hear these tunes:

 

The Yips - Air Loom - Point Dume - 2:23 - CC

Bonnie Doon - An Affair to Remember - 2:02 - CC

HSY - Single - Cyber Bully - 3:24 - CC

The Beverleys - Single - Dreams - 2:37 - CC

 

Radioactivity – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – World of Pleasure – 1:55

Missing Monuments – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – Answer the Call – 2:46

Mind Spiders – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – Make Make Make Make – 2:06

Bad Sports – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – Terrible Place – 3:32

 

Destruction Unit - Deep Trip - Evil Man - 3:32

Pleasure Leftists - 12” - Elephant Man - 3:28

Institute - Salt 12” - Salt - 2:41

 

Spraypaint  - Clean Blood, Regular Acid - Rest Versus Rush - 2:53

Negative Rage - Craft Single - Pile (Tina, Age 13) - 3:02 CC

The Stasi - Demo 2014 - German Guilt - 1:05

Toronto Homicide Squad - Slow Burn Lathe - Slow Burn - 2:36 CC

 

Kim Gray - Backseat Bingo - On Top - 2:23 - CC

Nots - We Are Nots - Get Along - 0:48

Nots - We Are Nots - Black Mold - 2:19

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_82_-_NOV_24_2014.mp3
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Garrett Johnson of BRAZILIAN MONEY talks to us about cliff-side shows, freaking out frat bros, and offers a surprisingly even-handed analysis of Macaulay Culkin's PIZZA UNDERGOUND!

Plus we talk about the most dangerous show we've been to, and our first cassettes!

We play these tunes:

Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Why Am I Still Standing Here?
Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Give Up That Dog
Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Then You'll Know
Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - We Could Just Stay

The Courtneys ft. Young Braised - Mars Attacks 7" - Mars Attacks
Hag Face - Hag Face/Shearing Pinx Split Tape - The Count
Deathcats - All Hail Deathcats - Solid
Skinny Kids - Strangers - Real Lost

The Ramones - Leave Home - Oh Oh I Love Her So
Hubble Bubble - S/T - New Promotion
The Okmoniks - Party Fever!!! - Teenage Timebomb

Charly Bliss - Soft Serve EP - Soft Serve
Deerhoof - Ia Isla Bonita - Exit Only
Flesh Lights - Free Yourself - Just About Due
Jay Holy - Scopalamine Dream - Beasts and Devils

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_81_-_NOV_10_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:44pm EDT

Our New York City Slang correspondent sends in an interview with POTTY MOUTH from CMJ! Learn the latest BREAKING NEWS on their nail polish regiment!

Plus, the whole gang is ing the studio! We play new tunes, a split special, an talk about our favourite split records!

We play these tunes:

Potty Mouth - Hell Bent - Wish List

Ovlov - 4-Way Split 7” - Ohmu Shell
Heliotropes - A Constant Sea - Early in the Morning

Cellphone - Excellent Condition - Bad Medusa
Chocolat - Tss Tss - Apocalypse

Slutever - Slutever x Girlpool Fall Tour Split Tape - Stomach Ache
Girlpool - Slutever x Girlpool Fall Tour Split Tape - This Place

Low Culture - Low Culture/Needles//Pins Split 7” - Reservations
Needles//Pins - Low Culture/Needles//Pins Split 7” - Hateful

Dope Body - Lifer - Hired Gun
Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Then You’ll Know
The Lauras - The Lauras - Kill You

Dirty Beaches - STATELESS - Pacific Ocean

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_80_-_NOV_3_2014.mp3
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This week we talk to Annie from NEW FRIES and she gives a SHOCKING answer when asked which Simpsons character she is!

Then puts the kids to bed and listen to the SPOOKTACULAR Halloween episode of CITY SLANG!

Hear these tunes:

New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Plexiglass
New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Moonlight & Valentino (The Movie)
New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Goberth, Roberth
New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Uncle Carmin Cruise Ship Cuba

Moss Lime - Cassette EP - Ice Cream Sandwich
Girl Arm - Trading Cities - Trading Cities
Energy Slime - New Dimensional - Star On The Ground

Primitive Parts - TV Wheels 7” - The Bench
Century Palm - Century Palm - Cold Reflection 3:09
Dilly Dally - Single - Green

Siouxie & The Banshees - Juju - Halloween
45 Grave - Autopsy - Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Poly-Unsaturated Blood
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us - I Was a Teenage Werewolf

Misfits - Halloween EP - Halloween
Lost Sounds - Memphis Is Dead - You Must Be a Witch
Alien Sex Fiend - The Singles 1981-1983 - R.I.P.

Suicide - Suicide - Frankie Teardrop

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_79_-_OCT_27_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:57pm EDT

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Carson of Merchandise and Anton of Lower face off in a parking lot outside an arcade!
 
Anton and Carson teach us about why music interviews suck and the dreamland of Denmark! Plus our censoring skills get put to the test when we learn about the worst Spanish and Danish curse words!
 
Plus we’ve got a FULL HOUSE in the studio, and Alanna, Travis, and Emmanuel offer up sets of new songs!
 
Hear these tunes:
 
Merchandise - After The End - Little Killer
Lower - Seek Warmer Climes - Daft Persuasion
Merchandise - Children of Desire - Time
Lower - Seek Warmer Climes - Another Life
Merchandise - After The End - Green Lady
 
Viet Cong - Viet Cong - Continental Shelf
TV Sets - Rat Tar Art - Just As Well
Absolutely Free - Absolutely Free - Vision’s
 
Sheer Mag - 7” - What You Want
Christi - Demo - Get You Off (My Mind)
R.L. Kelly - Brown Horse (R.L. Kelly) - The Great Big World
Jons - Serfs of Today - Last Call For Buss
 
Martha - Courting Strong - Move to Durham and Never Leave
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_78_-_OCT_20_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:14am EDT

GET TICKETS TO THE OTTAWA IMPLOSION! Email us at cityslangradio@gmail.com before our next episode (Oct. 13) for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the festival!

This week on the show, our plans to interview the band MERCHANDISE don’t go as planned! We play a set of phone-related tunes!

Plus an interview with SOLIDS, a spotlight on Ottawa implosion bands, and all the new tunes you can handle!

Ex Hex - Beast - How You Got That Girl
The Beverleys - Single - Hoodwink
Foam - Demo - Sludge

Merchandise - After The End - Telephone
The Nerves - The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone
Protex - Don’t Ring Me Up
Reigning Sound - Love and Curses - Call Me
Iceage - Ploughing Into The Fields of Love - Simony

Hot & Cold - Skip Skip Ben Ben split - Flynt
Dories - Stripped - Drip
Roberta Bondar - Caustic - Caustic

Boyhood - Bits and Bobs - Balcony
Lower - Seek Warmer Climes - Unkempt and Uncaring
Holy Cobras - Drugstore

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_77__-_OCT_6_2014.mp3
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Alanna and Travis harass CITY SLANG faves NAP EYES and MONOMYTH outside a venue! They dish dirt on themselves, explain how board games work, and get to the bottom of who has more in common with Kanye West.

Plus ragers from around the world, and BRUCE HAACK!

Tunes this week:

Nap Eyes - Whine of The Mystic - Dark Creedence
Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia - Pac Ambition
Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia - Patsy
Nap Eyes - Whine of The Mystic - Delirium & Persecution Paranoia

Iceage - Plowing Into The Field Of Love -  The Lord's Favorite
California Girls - Age of Consent EP - Dangerous
Salad Boys - Salad Boys - Dream Date

No.Negative - Album Blanc II - Feelin' The Heat
Mexican Slang - B-Side - Season In Hell

Bruce Haack - Electric Lucifer Book II - Stand Up Lazarus

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_76_-_SEPTEMBER_29_2014.mp3
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Emmanuel returns from globe-trotting with tons of vinyl! Travis makes fun of Steve Albini and plays nasty new tunes! We play UK punk, international thrashers, and Canadian weirdos! 

Plus a sneak peak of our interview with NAP EYES and MONOMYTH! 

Shellac - Dude Incredible - Riding Bikes 
Musk - Unreleased - Last Stand 
Yes, I'm Leaving - Mission Bulb - Endless Mind 

Good Throb - Fuck Off - Acid House 
Thee Nodes - Thee Nodes/Naughty Girls split - Living Like a Corpse 
VCR - 7” Beer Shit Night/Pizza Party 
Naughty Girls - Thee Nodes/Naughty Girls split Toy Cop 

King Tuff - Black Moon Spell - Black Moon Spell 
Terry & Louie - 7" - I'm Lookin' For a Heart 
Chloroform - Untitled Album - Forget It 

TV Smith’s Explorers - The Last Words of the Great Exporer - The Perfect Life 
Killing Joke - 7” - Tension 
The Jesus and Mary Chain - 7” - Bo Diddley is Jesus 

Nap Eyes - Whine of the Mystic - Dark Creedence 
Monomyth - King, Does This not Please You? (Behold The Power) - Cigarette

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_75_-_SEPT_22_2014.mp3
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Travis and Alanna run rampant! Classy jazz interludes, dance music, and a peak at a couple DJ sets the City Slang crew is doing this week.

In the second half, a spotlight on Buzz Records and an interview with Anamai of HSY and more!

So Cow - The Long Con - Get Down Off Of That Thing - 1:48
Total Control - Typical System - 2 Less Jacks - 2:44
SGNLS - II - Love Go's Running - 5:03
The Effects - Blister single - Blister - 2:31

Young Governor - Bloodstains Across Ontario - I Wanna Girl From Wawa - 2:39 CC
Pointed Sticks - Waiting For The Real Thing - Out of Luck - 2:32 CC
Old and Weird - Kraft Singles - Minstrel Rock - 1:47 CC
Boyhood - Boyhood EP - Heat - 2:33 CC

Beta/Mai - Single - Never Enough - 4:39 CC
Dilly Dally - Single - Candy Mountain - 3:07 CC

B-Girls - Who Says Girls Can't Rock? - Who Says Girls Can't Rock - 3:16
Tweens - Tweens - Hardcore Boy - 2:58

Wand - Ganglion Reef - Fire On The Mountain (I–II–III) - 5:08

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_74_-_SEPT_15_2014.mp3
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Musician, producer, illustrator, animator, super nice dude CHAD VANGAALEN is on the show! Chad talks about his animated movie, his daughter’s defunct techno bands, and their strange bug powers!

PLus, Chad FIRES BACK at his frienemies in VIET CONG and responds to their trash talk from EPISODE 68!

Plus, contributor Alanna Why is in studio, and Travis talks about the greatest YouTube comment ever!

IF YOU MISS THIS EPISODE IT WILL LITERALLY HAUNT YOU!

Tunes this week:

Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust - Where Are You
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - Shave My Pussy
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - Blonde Hash
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane - Molten Light
Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust - Leaning On Bells

Teenanger - E P L P - Sky Saxon
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs - Gates Of Hell - Birthday
Naomi Punk - Television Man - Linoleum Tryst #19

Eaters - Eaters - Bury The Lines
Catholic Girls - Sheila Joined a Cult - Daddy Hunting
Cassie Ramone - The Time Has Come - Hangin On

Blonde Redhead - Barragán - No More Honey

Direct download: CHUO-FM_Audio_Log-2014-Sep-08-21-00.mp3
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Robbie of RUBBER BROTHER RECORDS braves the face melting conditions of Tempe, Arizona to deliver one of the funniest CITY SLANG questionnaires yet! Learn about angst-y Celine Dion concerts, funeral t-shirts, and a town-sized truck stop!

PLUS a spotlight on Shake! Records, some punk-rock Birthday shout outs, and MORE!

This week’s tunes:

Petty Things - Year of The Dog - Bored
Of The Painted Choir - Barbarous - Cactus Wren
Best Dog Award - Faith-Based Space Place - Lady Saigoon
The Thin Bloods - Twin Tumors Vol. 2 - Peter Was a Virus
The Daddyo’s - It’s A Tough World Out There For a Lonely Girl - Arizona
Playboy Manbaby - Bummeritaville - Modest Meowz

Lungbutter - Extractor - Jellyfish
Literature - Chorus - Court/Date
Old and Weird - What I Saw - Gig Bag

The Vibrators - Pure Manio - Whips and Furs
Choloform - Demo - Clouded Head
The White Wires - III - Jackie and Donna
Steve Adamyk Band - Dial Tone - Not Gonna (Ever)

Fist City - Shake! Records sampler - Queen of The Slugs
Monster Treasure - Shake! Records sampler - Heat
Lab Coast - Shake! Records sampler - Really Realize

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_72_-_AUG_25_2014.mp3
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ZAKARY SLAX AND THE TEENAGE MUTANT SUPERSTARZ size up against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, talk pizza, martial arts, and their upcoming schawarma reservation!

Plus killer tunes and Birthday shout outs!

Featuring these tunes:

Zakary Slax - Teenage Mutant - Get Yr Shit Together
Zakary Slax - Teenage Mutant - Complainer
Astral Gunk - Afterburners Vol 4 - Antilove
Zakary Slax - Teenage Mutant - Remains

Yellowteeth - Rat King Vol. 1 - Body In The Ocean
Noise Hounds - Rat King Vol. 1 - Wastin Away
Astral Gunk - Rat King Vol. 1 - All Surf’s Up

The Mouthbreathers - Appetite for Deconstruction - Birthdays
Kappa Chow - Unreleased - Invisible Shadow
Yellowteeth - Gets in Car - Without a Groan

WTCHS - It’s Not a Cross, It’s a Curse! - Neil
The Foggy Notions - Sussed - No One Comes Out Alive

Allison Crutchfield - Lean In To It - Lupe
Ought - More Than Any Other Day - Pleasant Heart
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - Burning Photographs
Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia! - Medicine Man

New Swears - Junk - Day Dreamer
New Order - Age of Consent

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_71_-_AUG_18_2014.mp3
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Jackson MacIntosh of the band SHEER AGONY talks to us about psychedelic times in Florida, drunk times on camera, and the most macho thing he's ever done! Heads up: he's not that macho!

Plus a spotlight on the KATORGA WORKS label and tunes from the PLASTIC FACTORY RECORDS compilation!

This week's tunes:

Sheer Agony - Sheer Agony 7" - Claptrap
Sheer Agony - The Unruly Sisters - Goodbye Cream
Sheer Agony - Sheer Agony 7" - She's An Artist
Sheer Agony - Sheer Agony 7" - Good Cats Go To Heaven

Un Blonde - Tenet - Life Standing Before
Merchandise - After The End - Green Lady
Homeshake - Single - Cash is Money

Institute - 7" - Giddy Boys
Ivy - Ivy 12" Arch-Foe
Hank Wood and the Hammer Heads - Stay Home - The Ghost

Obnox - The Juke That Sat By The Door - Sit Yo Ass Down
Golden Pelicans - Total Punk Records 12" - Pissin In a Puddle of Puke
Spray Paint - Cussin 7" - Cussin

Nap Eyes - Barrels - Meet The Factory
Special Costello - Meet The Factory - Shopping

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_70_-_AUG_11_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:05pm EDT

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Contributor Alanna Why talks to Ottawa’s BONNIE DOON! If you wanna rub cheezies into a wedding dress or can’t stop thinking about pizza, then this is the episode for you!

Plus a buncha new tunes, including a set of music from the latest Riots Not Diets compilation!

This week’s tunes:

Bonnie Doon - An Affair To Imagine - Moon Tan
Bonnie Doon - An Affair To Imagine - Snow Bone
Bonnie Doon - An Affair To Imagine - Pizza Shark

Hag Face - Rag Face Bendy Wendy
Catholic Girls - Sheila Joined a Cult - Beast

Los Cripis - I Know Why The Caged Grrrl Sings - Falling
Frau - I Know Why The Caged Grrrl Sings - Snakeskin
Dog Legs - I Know Why The Caged Grrrl Sings - Beast Like Me

No Aloha - Dominionated - Fountains (Nils Cover)
Family Video - Maybe This Summer - She Reminds Me
Vibe Wrecker - Demo - Got The Apartment

Surprise Party - Heart of Love - Surprise
Makthaverskan - Makthaverskan II - Antabus
PyPy - Pagan Day - Pagan Day

Eagulls - Eagulls - Hollow Visions
Small Teeth - Small Teeth EP - Party Shame
Lower - Seek Warmer Climes - Bastard Tactics

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_69_-_JUL_28_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:51pm EDT

Emmanuel gets a blow-by-blow, cross-Canada tour diary from STRANGE ATTRACTOR! They save a whole mall from a gas leak and get steamed at a Winnipeg house party!

Alannah Why interviews MOTHER’S CHILDREN about who could beat them up and just how many blazers they own!

Plus a special set from the Dub Ditch Picnic Benefit comp!

Hear sweet tunes including:

Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - Alien in This Room
Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - Escape from DMT
Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - I’m Trying to Wake You Up
Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - This is Total Shit
Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - Hot Dog Water
Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - Real Dark Place

Microdot - I’ll Hang with God, but Not Today - Bleeding All Over
Shearing Pinx - I’ll Hang with God, but Not Today - Tour Romance (Take 1)
The Zags - I’ll Hang with God, but Not Today - Stop The World From Spinning

Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia! - Something Else
Alex G - DSU - After Ur Gone
Saffrons - Poncho Records Compilation Vol. 1 - Isis

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_67_-_JULY_14_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:46am EDT

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It’s the conclusion of our OTTAWA EXPLOSION BLOWOUT! We subject more people to the hard-hitting CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE, including members of TWEENS, VACATION, and KING’S QUEST!

Briggette Battle of TWEENS talks pizza, her crush on Kirk Hammett, and straight up spills her beer!

Jerry Queen of TWEENS, PRETTY PRETTY, and VACATION goes to Circle Jerks shows with his Dad, talks about playing with the Breeders, and pukes up his hair!

KING’S QUEST talk Thrillhouse, Bill Cosby’s home computer system, and what happens to cheez-wiz after ten years!

 

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_65_-__JUN_30_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:42pm EDT

It’s the first in our OTTAWA EXPLOSION BLOWOUT! We’ve scientifically engineered the best set of questions in the universe, and asked some of our favourite bands to answer the CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE!

Burger and Dave of TV FREAKS talk fights, why you shouldn’t fuck with them, working at mcdonald’s, and tripping on syzurp!

Ian and Matt of DAD JOKES find pyrex in dildo boxes and huck bottles at Canadian alt rockers Serial Joe!

Gina Vinelli of BONNIE DOON talks fighting at Ottawa Explosion, and Bonnie Doon’s Oprah connection!!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_65__-_JUNE_23_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:42pm EDT

OTTAWA EXPLOSION SPECIAL! We’ve got a spotlight on bands playing the OTTAWA EXPLOSION FESTIVAL, the annual festival full of beer, bands, and BEST BUDS put on by our very own Emmanuel Sayer!

For more info on Ottawa Explosion and buying tickets go to the OTTAWA EXPLOSION SITE! And get on it, because the party starts TOMORROW!

The tunes this week:

Feral Trash - Unreleased - Obey
Big Dick - S/T LP - Schoolyard Violence
Low Culture - 7” - Travel Song
Needles//Pins - Shamebirds - Shamebirds
New Swears - Junkfood Forever, Bedtime Never - Midnight Lovers

The Mandates - S/T LP - She’s Walking Over
Average Times - S/T LP - Summer Nights
First Base - S/T LP - She’s Boy Crazy
Pink Wine - S/T - Better Half
Mother’s Children - Lemon - Break It To Me

The Marked Men - Fix My Brain - A Little Time
Steve Adamyk Band - S/T LP - Hollowed
Sonic Avenues - Mistakes - Wasted Summer
The White Wires - 7” - Don’t Call Me When You’re Ill

Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right - Scum. Rise!
Tweens - Tweens Be Mean
Primitive Hearts - Split with Pookie & the Poodlez - Last Chance
The Creeps - Eulogies - Ghost

The Yips - Air Loom - Repeater
Roberta Bondar - Hiss - Salt

Direct download: city_slang_64.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:33am EDT

Vancouver's THEE AHS get blue and talk filthy sign language, prom, and Jonathan Richman! Plus, they respond to YOUTUBE COMMENTERS! 

Plus our tape segment and these tunes: 

Thee AHs - Corey's Coathangers - Spooky Love 
Thee AHs - Future Without Her - Oooh (They're Inside Me) 
the Tammys - 7” - Egyptian Shumba 
Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan - I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar 
Thee AHs - Thee AHs Nation - Ugly Side of Things 
Thee AHs - Corey's Coathangers - Does it Still Count? 

Nervous - Nervous - Cog In The Machine 
Spoils - Prairie Shag - What You Want 
Strange Attractor - Barely Doing Crime 7" - I Need To Kill My Neighbours 
Lunch Lady - Take That, The Devil!! - Recipe For Congealed Ambrosia Salad 

Obnox - Louder Space - Bitch! Get Money! 
Hysterics - Can't I Live? 7" - No Vision 
White Lung - Deep Fantasy - Face Down 

Kindest Cuts - Kindest Cuts - Villains 
Skinny Kids - Skinny Kids - All Gold 

Lewis - L'Amour - Love Showered Me

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_63_-_MAY_26_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:39pm EDT

Matt of ABSOLUTELY FREE joins us to talk about to talk about On The Beach, the cosmic sounds of NASA probes, working with Portishead’s Geoff Barrows, and Matt gives Travis a FRANK ZAPPA primer! 

And more! Contributor and zinester Alanna Why checks out Ottawa’s NATIONAL DRONE DAY show and interviews SELF SURGERYHERONS WAKE, and the HUMAN BEING LAWNMOWERS! 

Plus we play these tunes: 

Absolutely Free - Absolutely Free 12” - UFO 
Absolutely Free - On The Beach 12” - Clothed Woman, Sitting 
DD/MM/YY - Beak/DDMMYYYY Split LP - Pizza Mind 

Beak - » - 0898 
Phil Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble - Phil Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble - On The Beach 
King Stitts - Dancehall ‘63 - On The Beach

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_62_-_MAY_19_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:46pm EDT

Montreal's SHE'S are a new CITY SLANG favourite. We interview them about surviving cross-country bus trips, Dad rock, nearly dying, and esoteric Victoria knowledge!

Plus our weekly tape feature and more tunes including:

She’s - Split - Kim Kimono
She’s - EP - Don't Wanna Go To Work
She’s -  Split - Drop Dead
She’s - EP - My Baby K
She’s - Split - Girls Who Don't Do Drugs

Generacion Suicida - Con La Muerte A Tu Lado - El Centro
Belgrado - Siglo XXI - Jeszcze Raz
Mannschreck - 80-8 7” - Where Have All The Good Times Gone

Psychic Fair - Bees On Ice - Won't it Be Weird When We Can't
Viet Cong - Cassette - Oxygen Feed

Cousins - The Halls of Wickwire - Phone
Corridor - Un Magicien En Toi - Quel Quoi

Sean Nicholas Savage - Bermuda Waterfall - Heartless

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_61_-_MAY_12_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:11am EDT

Mike of HOSEHEAD records and FIRST BASE stops by to tell us how he muscles bands into releasing records! We play some of the finest tunes from HOSEHEAD and find out the biggest HOSEHEAD fuck up!

 

Plus our tape segment, and these killer tunes:

 

First Base - Party Party Party - Party Party Party

The White Wires - II - I Can Tell

Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs - All By Myself - All By Myself

Average Times - Average Times - Do The Dance

TV Freaks - Leeches 7” - Leeches

 

Pink Wine - Tape - Persistent Cops

Ketamines - So Hot! 7” - So Hot!

Steve Adamyk Band - Monterrey 7” - Monterrey

 

VCR - VCR - Dirty Girl/City Boy

The Lorettas - Fuck The Lorettas - Teenage Hell

 

The Dying Arts - The Dying Arts EP - Scratch

HSY - single - Cyber Bully

Owls - Two - I'm Surprised

 

Needles//Pins - Shamebirds - You Only Call Me When You're Drunk

The Lad Mags - Trick - Trick - 1:59 CC

La Femme - Le Podium #1 - Sur La Planche

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_60_-__MAY_5_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:58am EDT

Travis pulls some key tracks from the 12 disc compilation A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89! Emmanuel dives into the CHUO record vault! AND MORE!

Hear these tunes:

Sheena & The Rokkets - Synkuu Pack - Omae Ga Hoshii (One More Time)
Mother’s Ruin - Godzilla 12” - Godzilla (A Japanese Love Song)
Kleenex - Single - Ü
Fatal Microbes - Single - Violence Grows
Agonia - [Unknown] -[Unknown title]
Poles - single - CN Tower

Dos - Dos - Number Two
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade - Something I Learned Today
Flesh Eaters - A Minute to Pray a Second To Die - See You In The Boneyard
Material Issue - Blockbuster EP - Cowboy Song

Rhythm of Cruelty - Dysphoria - Way of Grief
Zakary Slax - Teenage Mutant - Get Yr Shit Together
Baked Goods - The Bastard - Holy Ghost
Rainboard - The Midnight Slide - Mating Calls

Nap Eyes - Whine of the Mystic - Tribal Thoughts
Fountain - Fountain - Divide
She’s - She’s - Baby K

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_59_-_APRIL_14_2014_.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:18pm EDT

Three fifths of THE YIPS join us in studio and play some choice tunes! We talk to them about the their spooky concert presence RAVE GHOST, Skrillex's influence, and their past as CHILD GOLF PRODIGIES! Hear tunes from their new Bruised Tongue tape!

Hear these tunes:

The Yips - Air Loom - Sadie
The Yips - Air Loom - Repeater
The Yips - Air Loom - Submariner
The Yips - Air Loom - Wytch Elm


Boyfriends - Unreleased - Track
Organ Eyes - Visual Meetings - Ghost Lap
Los Saicos - ¡Demolición! - The Complete Recordings - Demolición
Pink Wine - Pink Wine - Better Half
Tropical Dripps - Cool Dude - Cowboys
Ensemble Sincron - Planetary Pebbles, Vol. 1: Surfbeat Behind The Iron Curtain - In Gara La Leordeni

Sector 8 - 7" Holloween Hollywood

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_58_-_APR_7_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:44pm EDT

LIVE EPISODE THIS WEEK! Emmanuel and Travis teamed up with BRUISED TONGUE to party with a WHO'S WHO of Ottawa luminaries at Raw Sugar! We played tunes for three hours, and this week's episode is one hour of PEAK LIVE RADIO!

 

Featuring LUKE of WHITE WIRES and BOYHOOD! Famous zinester ALANNA WHY! LESLEY of BONNIE DUNE! And MORE, MORE MORE!

 

Feel Alright - Oahu Ohio

Hackamore Brick - Oh! Those Sweet Bananas

 

Roky Erikson and The Aliens - Bloody Hammer

The Deadly Snakes - Real Rock and Roll Tonight

 

Cold Warps - Stuck On an Island

Vacation - Shitty City 7" - Running Back - 2:35

 

Needles//Pins - Outta This Place 7" - Outta This Place

Steve Adamyk Band - Hate Myself

Masshysteri - Istiden

Spectres - Pattern Recognition

 

Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business

White Wires - Don't Call Me When You're Ill

Royal Headache - Honey Joy

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_57_-_MARCH_24_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:58pm EDT

Donation season! That means loads of prizes, crazy tunes, and a bonus St. Paddy's day set! GET ON IT!

 

Teledrome - Teledrome - Boyfriend

Heaven For Real - Craft Single - Hero's Code

Each Other - Being Elastic - Swell Patterns

Viet Cong - Unreleased - Bunker Buster

 

Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love - Driver

Eagulls - Posessed

 

Rudy - Crimson EP - 14 Steps…

Protex - I can't Cope 7" - I can't Cope

Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Hero - Nobody's Hero

 

TV Freaks - Two - Rewind

Average Times - EP - Summer Nights

 

Black Walls - Communion - Communion

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_56_-_MAR_17_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:12pm EDT

THE BEVERLEYS go blue on us and talk about porn bloopers! Plus talk of big macs, ghosts, and HSY crashes the show for MORE PORN TALK! Don't tell your parents about this one.

 

Plus it'a funding drive season! Keep good shit like our show on the air!

 

Hear these tunes:

 

The Beverleys - The Beverleys - Bad Company

The Beverleys - The Beverleys - This is Not A Union

HSY - HSY 7" - Tartar Mouth

The Beverleys - The Beverleys - Dreams

 

Toronto Homicide Squad - Nein Bullets - Cold Eggs

The New Values - The New Values - Straight Line

 

Big Mouth - Sound - Sisyphus

RVIVR - The Beauty Between - The Seam

Rose Melberg - Distant Ships - Distant Ships

 

Metz - Metz - Wasted

Big Dick - Big Dick - Witchcraft

The Ketamines - Stay Awake 7" - Always Small

Direct download: beverleys.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:37am EDT

One-man psych band PAUL JACOBS talks about cartoons, getting into trouble, and how his house burning down drove him to skateboarding. 

Plus hear our tapes of the week, a set of Windsor punk tunes, and brand new tracks. 

Paul Jacobs - Paul Jacobs - Bad Art, Bad Teacher 
Paul Jacobs - Coffin Ride - Sara’s Party 
Paul Jacobs - Drug Theaters - Trippin’ in the Park 
Paul Jacobs - Drug Theaters - Sharp Dress 
Paul Jacobs - Drug Theaters - Under Water 

The Spys - Single - Underground 
Luxury Christ - Problematic For the People - Difference 
Worry - II - Precision Auto (Superchunk) 

Devonian Gardens - Solar Shifting - Goldbond 
Cult Babies - Cult Babies EP - Good Death 

Bel Argosy - Let’s Hear it For Bel Argosy - Yer Door 
La Misma - S/T 7” - Guerras Silenciosas 
Damaged Bug - Hubba Bubba - Photograph 

Black Lips - Underneath The Rainbow - Smilin 
Nap Eyes - Whine of The Mystic - No Man Needs to Care 

Mode Moderne - Occult Delight - She Untamed

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_54__-_MAR_3_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:45pm EDT

Emmanuel and Travis play a buncha crazy new tunes! We introduce a new segment with a brand new theme song all about TAPES, TAPES TAPES!

Hear these songs:

Pypy - Pagan Day - Pagan Day
Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - Real Dark Place
First Base - First Base - That’s My Girlfriend
Average Times - Average Times - Summer Nights
Amanita Bloom - Furniture Music - Often In The Spring Time

MASS - No One - Little Town
Young Widows - Easy Pain - Kerosene Girl
Endless Rope - Negi Surf Demo - Four-Colour Wonders
Reversing Falls - Reversing Falls - I Think We’ve Got a Problem

Ratstab - Noise War Demo - Mangel
Femmaggots - Femmaggots - Parking Lot
The Pink Noise - Inyrdisk Split - Crass
JLK & Babysitter - JLK & Babysitter II - Super Highway
Priests - Tape Two - Leave Me Alone

Lumpy & The Dumpers - Demo 1 - Face the Meat
Nos Bos - Nos Bos - Sloshing Footsteps

Tough Age - Tough Age Dream Date

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_53_-_FEB_24_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:48pm EDT

Dean of the killer ODONIS ODONIS discusses bad VHS movies, Canada's archangel Thor, children's television, and--most importantly--breakfast. Plus, non-stop bangers from Canada and beyond!

Hear these tunes:

Odonis Odonis -  Single - New Obsession
Odonis Odonis - Better EP - Flight Risk
Odonis Odonis - Hollondaze - Hollondaze
Odonis Odonis - Single - Are We Friends
Odonis Odonis - Hollondaze - We Are The Left Overs

Surveillance - Go Fuck Yourself - That's Not Who I Am
Fountain - Fountain - New Age Prices
Androgynous Mind - Nightstalker - Knock On My Door

Absolutely Free - On The Beach - On The Beach
Stiu Nu Stiu - Ultra Silvam - Ultra Silvam
Clean Girls - Last House EP - First Day Ou

Spite House - Spite House - Tug of War
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days - Passing Out Pieces

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_52_-_FEB_17_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:50pm EDT

AW, DANG! Those jerks from Bruised Tongue burst into the studio and took over the show this week. They play their favourite tunes from 2013, a new track from Boyhood, and plug their dumb five-year anniversary party this weekend!

Hear these tunes:

Boyhood - Post Poc

Destruction Unit - Deep Trip - God Trip

Gary Wrong Group - Total Punk - Streets of Iron

Venom P. Stinger - Walking About

Babysitter - EYE - Angel of Death

Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion - No, Nothing, My Shelter
Mike Krol - Trust Fund - Cease and Desist

Devo - Hardcore Volume I - I’ve Been Refused 

Raspberry Bulbs - Deformed Worship - When A Lie Becomes a Truth

Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love Is The Devil - Casino Lisboa
Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love Is The Devil - ELLI

Foilakzoid - II - Trees

Warm Soda - Someone For You - Only In Your Mind
The Urinals - 100 Years of Pulchritude - Male Masturbation

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_51_v2_-_FEB_10_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:02pm EDT

Joe of KAPPA CHOW talks about the Sackville, NB music scene, Twin Peaks, and the punkest thing he’s done! Plus, Travis quizes him on the mythical creature the KAPPA, and we learn about farts, cucumbers, and the toughest member of KAPPA CHOW!

We hear a set of Sackville tunes, including unreleased tracks!

Heard these tunes:

Kappa Chow -  KC I/II - Bang Bang
Kappa Chow - Punk As Fuck 7” - Love On Me
Kappa Chow - KC I/II - Sleep The Day Away
Kappa Chow - Punk As Fuck 7” - Punk As Fuck
Kappa Chow - KC I/II - Invisible Shadow
Kappa Chow - KC I/II - Save Your Opinion

Astral Gunk - unreleased - Anti-Love
Zachary Slax - unreleased - Rat City
Best Fiends - unreleased - Puppy Love 
The Mouthbreathers - V/A Rat King 1 - Same Words
Yellowteeth - V/A Rat King 1 - Boy + Girl

Faux Fur - Faux Fur - Burnt
Un Blonde - Un Blonde - Spine
Long Weekends - Tell It To My Heart - The Best You Ever Had

Childbirth - It’s a Girl! - Sister Wives
Monster Treasure - Monster Treasure - I don’t Giv’a Shit

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_50_-_JAN_27_2014.mp3_1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:31pm EDT

TJ, Burger, and Dave of the great TV FREAK's tell us how to spend one night in Hamilton, talk cover art, and buying candy. Hear TV Freaks'  et of hand-selected classics from Hamilton, including SIMPLY SAUCER!

Hear these tunes:

TV Freaks - Destroy Music Start Your Own Band - Medidation

TV Freaks - TV Freaks - Coworker Blues
TV Freaks - TV Freaks - Street Rat
TV Freaks - Two - Knife
TV Freaks - Two - Pusher

TV Freaks - 7" EP - Freelancer
TV Freaks - TV Freaks - Only Child

Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 - Residential Area
Dennis Most - Agitate Me! - There is a Mall
The Gories - The Shaw Tapes - Charm Bag

The Ruby Plumes - Prairie Sessions - Rock City

Adam and the Madams - Death By a Million Splinters - Death By a Million Splinters

Born Wrong - Holding Cell - Loujack Cafe
Black Baron - Divine Chains - The Twisting Fate of Future Years
Sailboats Are White - Turbo 2 - Monster Helicopter
Snakecharmer - Crispy Meat Demo - Self Immolate
Magic Shadows - Sunburned Mind 7" - Sunburned Mind

Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited - Bullet Proof Nothing

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_49_-_JAN_20_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:20am EDT

Featuring these killer tunes:

The Reatards - Get Real Stupid 7" - You Ain't Fun No Mo

Angry Angles - CROWDS 7" - Crowds

Lost Sounds - Rat Brains & Microchips - Blackcoats/Whitefear


Final Solutions - Eye Don't Like You 7" - Eye Don't Like You

Bad Times - Self-Titled - Streets Of Iron

Terror Visions - World of Shit - Medicating Dreams


Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You 7" -  Hammer I Miss You

Jay Reatard - Blood Visions - My Shadow

Jay Reatard - 7" I Know Place


Jay Reatard - See Saw/Screaming Hand 7" - Screaming Hand

Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall - Faking It


Potty Mouth - First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast - Damage

Breadline - First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast - Peroxotine Death

Paths - Clarion Call - Waves


Holy Cobras - Dead Bodies Float in Space - Drugstore

Heavy Chains - 7" - Liver Lips

Old and Weird - Moon/Old and Weird - Lamp


Kappa Chow - Kappa Chow - Bang Bang

Monomyth - Craft Single - Trash Day

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_48_-_JAN_13_2014.wav.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:14am EDT

Emmanuel and Travis contine the re-cap of 2013s best interviews and tunes!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_47_-_DEC_30_2013.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:50am EDT

Emmanuel and Travis highlight some of the best interviews and tunes from the first year of CITY SLANG!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_46_-_DEC_23_2013.wav.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:46am EDT

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