CITY SLANG

Please, please, hold your applause! Our year-end spectacular includes hilarious moments featuring SNEAKS, FLASHER, JUICE BOX, DOXX, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, SIEVEHEAD, POP. 1280, CHANDRA, GUN OUTFIT, PROTOMARTYR, BEN JENSEN, and more!!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_142_-_BEST_OF_2016_FULL_v2.mp3
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Annie-Claude Deschênes of Montreal's DUCHESS SAYS joins us for a wild conversation! We talk about the food court confessional she started after dressing like a nun, creating art out of insipid corporate products, and she crowd surfed into a concussion!

Plus we play these tunes:

Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Inertia
Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - I Repeat Myself
Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Negative Thoughts
Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Poubelle
Duchess Says - Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs - C.H.O.B.
Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - I’m An Idea

Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1 - Cold Fear
Purling Hiss - High Bias - 3000 AD
Drahla - digital single - Fictional Decision

Peeling - Rats in Paradise - Wet Nurse
Sad13 - Slugger - Line Up
No Joy - Drool Sucker - A Thorn in Garland's Side

BB Cream - Rose Petal Pie - Rose Petal Pie

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_141_DUCHESS_SAYS_PT_2.mp3
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We interview DC post-punk band FLASHER! We discover why they're the richest band in America: rich in deer guts, rich in mocha tapestries, rich in pillow case collections, and so much more. 

Plus we play these tunes:

Flasher - Flasher - All Over
Flasher - Flasher - Love Me
Flasher - Flasher - Destroy
Flasher - Flasher - Make Out
Flasher - Flasher - Erase Myself
Flasher - Flasher - Tense

Homeshake - Nankhatai/Stuck Inside charity single - Nankhatai
Alex Calder - Nankhatai/Stuck Inside charity single - Stuck Inside
Thee Oh Sees - An Odd Entrances - You Will Find It Here

Nash the Slash - Dreams and Nightmares - Moon Curse
Wy - Never Was EP - Hate To Fall Asleep

Ty Segall - Single - Orange Color Queen

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_140_-_FLASHER.mp3
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We get some deep dirt from Mish and Kenneth of WHITE LUNG, including Kenneth's prized Furby collection, and how he was prepared to tackle someone for Anne Hathaway! Plus the band's karaoke pet peeves, and Mish spills the beans on Tom Morello's salads!

Plus we play these tracks:

White Lung - It's The Evil - Viva La Rat
White Lung - Sorry - Thick Lip
White Lung - Deep Fantasy - Drown With the Monster
White Lung - Paradise - Dead Weight
White Lung - Paradise - Narcoleptic
White Lung - Paradise - Hungry
White Lung - Paradise - Kiss Me When I Bleed

Marching Church - Telling it Like it Is - Lions Den
The Men  - Devil Music - Lion’s Den
Cheena - Spend the Night With… - Car
Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull EP - Lips and Skull

Chastity - S/T - You're Scary Now
Sonic Avenues - Disconnector - Future
Supermoon - Playland - Witching Hour
New Fries - More - 90 Yr Old Girl

Flasher - S/T - Erase Myself

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_139_-_WHITE_LUNG_-_FULL-.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm EDT

Want to know what mopalobby means? Do you need a stringent set of arbitrary punk rules for your band to follow? Does your mom iron your punk patches on your jacket? If the answer to any of those questions is "yes", you need to listen to our interview with Ottawa's DOXX immediately! We cram the band into the back of a car and put them through a revealing dirt session/CITY SLANG questionnaire!

Plus, we play these tunes:

Crack Cloud - Anchoring Point - Image Craft
Bonnie Doon - Pentagon Black Compilation No. 1 - Pants and a Face
Loving - Loving - Forgot Again
SPELL - Single/video - Hair In Your Eyes

Total Bliss - Single - B.I.T.C.H.
Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs & Idiots - Here Comes Mr Suck
Primetime -  Going Places - Anyway
Belgrado - Obraz - Dalej

White Lung - Paradise - Below
Monomyth - Happy Pop Family - Re: Lease Life (Place 2 Go)

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_138_-_DOXX_FULL_EPISODE-.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:15pm EDT

We catch up with UK punks Sievehead for a cultural exchange! We learn about how to living in Sheffield staying drunk on trans-Atlantic flights, and they learn what real poutine is all about! Plus a public apology to one members father, as CITY SLANG's deep research methods reveals some family dirt!

Plus we play these tunes:

We catch up with UK punks Sievehead for a cultural exchange! We learn about how to living in Sheffield staying drunk on trans-Atlantic flights, and they learn what real poutine is all about! Plus a public apology to one members father, as CITY SLANG's deep research methods reveals some family dirt!


Sievehead - Into The Blue - No Grapes
Sievehead - Into The Blue - Look Both Ways
Sievehead - Into The Blue - Hoax
Sievehead - Into The Blue - Try The Mirror
Sievehead - Into The Blue - Last Words

Product of Reason - Household Shocks - Active Repetition
One Gang Logic - Household Shocks - Playtime
Juveniles - Household Shocks - Another Kind of Guy

Homebody - Better Use of Leisure Time - Natural Violence
Phern - Cool Coma - Pebble
The Submissives - Do You Really Love Me? - Tell Me Why

Xarah Dion - Fugitive - Le dédale
Homeshake - Fresh Air - Call Me Up - 2:29

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_137_-_SIEVEHEAD.mp3
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The best goofs, gaffes, and oddball interview bits that hit the cutting room floor presented to you in their full unnecessary glory!

Thrill to our compilation of civilian interruptions, tales of alternative rock house guests, historic esoterica from post-punk luminaries, and bizarre philosophizing about highway horses!

Plus, we play these tunes:

Tough Age - I Get The Feeling Central - Snakes & Ladders
Rhythm Of Cruelty - Saturating - Day In, Day Out
Unblonde - Good Will Come To You - Staying in Line
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - The Devil in His Youth
Century Palm - S/T - Desire

Flasher - Flasher - Tense
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural - JJ
Post Pink - I Believe You, Ok - Take Me
Cigarette - Warm Shadows 7” - Warm Shadows

Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Negative Thoughts - 6:30 - CC
Sievehead - 7” - Try The Mirror (Pure Gold mix) - 6:52

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_136_REST_OF_THE_BEST_FULL_EPISODE-.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:28pm EDT

Live, all-vinyl, funding drive episode from The Record Centre!

 

Hawkwind - Single - Silver Machine
Bauhaus - Single - Dark Entries

Our Daughter's Wedding- Single - Lawnchairs
Delta 5 - Single - Mind Your Own Business

Siouxie & the Banshees - Single - Happy House
Depeche Mode - Single - Shake The Disease
Devo - Single - Are U X-Perienced?

The Tourists - Single - I Only Want To Be With You
Lori and the Chameleons - Single - Touch

Joy Division - Single - These Days
TV Smith's Explorers - Single - The Perfect Life

The Jam - Single - Strange Town
The Undertones - Single - You've Got My Number

X-Ray Spex - Single - Oh Bondage Up Yours!
The Stranglers - Single - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_135_FD_VINYL_SECIAL.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:24pm EDT

Welcome to CITY SLANG: At the Gallery, a fine arts and culture show hosted by Emmanuel and Travis (not affiliated with Emmanuel and Travis of CITY SLANG).

This week, illustrator Ben Jensen and photographer Imogen Reid join us live from the opening of their art show opening at the Ottawa Art Gallery!

We discuss skeleton skateboarders, the Hieronymus Bosch of punk photos, and take a tour of the new exhibit.

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_134_-_AT_THE_GALLERY_IMOGEN__BEN2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:40pm EDT

We've been around the world this summer. Now that CITY SLANG is back home, we decided to spotlight some of our favourite local music from the year.

We play:

Average Times - S/T - Dirty Laundry
BB Cream - S/T - Do U Wanna
Creep Wave - Winter Sucks - Cat Call
Bonnie Doon - Single - Now or Neverish
Expandafuzz - Bleuets - The Disco Sounds of Roof Rack

Piith - Sweet Sweet Morning - Sunrise
Heavy Bedroom - Heavy Bedroom/King’s Quest split - Soft Pillow of Doubt
Heron's Wake - Phantom - Beast

Doxx - S/T - Slimer
Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland - Carry On
Warp Lines - Demo - Waited Long Enough
The Heavy Medicine Band - Conduit - Sleep Light

Telecomo - Promo EP - Around
Elementals - I’m Not Here, I’m Not Real - Debase
The Yips - Got Power/Want Some - Saturn Devours His Young

Ruth Grader - Forms EP - 904

 

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_133_OTTAWA_SPOTLIGHT.mp3
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This week on the show, we fend off late-night hooligans to talk to the great YVES JARVIS! (formerly Un Blonde)

Otherwise known as Jean-Sebastien Audet, we learn the wisdom of watching and learning from reality shows, the psychological zen of Kanye West, and the long-term harm of living under the stairs.

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_132_UNBLONDE.mp3
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This week we catch up with JAY ARNER and JESSICA DELISLE of Jay Arner, Energy Slime, Retail Nightmares, and more! We discuss soundtracking Metal Gear Solid, turning down corporate sugar beverage Slurpee, the cosmic vibes of the grand canyon, and a snafu at a Blim Blorton's!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_131_-_JAY_ARNER__ENERGY_SLIME-.mp3
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This week on the show, we put SNEAKS and Ottawa's own PIPPA through the CITY SLANG questionnaire!

Sneaks shares the greatest first rock show in CITY SLANG history, and we get to the bottom of what exactly makes a swear word. Then learn about Pippa's dangerous Simpsons-themed Halloween costume, cosmic thrift-store finds, Avril Lavigne deep-cuts, and more.

Plus we play these tunes:

Sneaks - Gymnastics - XTY
Sneaks - Gymnastics - Tough Luck
Sneaks - Gymnastics - New Taste
Sneaks - Gymnastics - True Killer
Sneaks - Gymnastics - Red
Sneaks - Gymnastics - Down in the Woods
Sneaks - Gymnastics - No Problem

Wet Brain - Not Sorry - Waitress
Wingdam - Glow Ahead - How To Swim
Ami Dang - Uni Sun - Sublimate
Moss of Aura - We'll All Collide - Wheels

Pippa - Single - Blue Temple
Pippa - Single - Callin’ In

Angry Angles - Angry Angles - Crowds
Martha - Blisters In the Pit of My Heart - Precarious (The Supermarket Song)
Earth Girls - Wanderlust LP - I Thought You Knew

Yung - A Youthful Dream - A Youthful Dream
Sheila Beach - Walk Home - Wally M
Vivien Goldman - Resolutionary (Songs 1979-1982) - Launderette

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_130_-_SNEAKS__PIPPA_FULL-.mp3
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We're back from summer vacation with a doozy of an episode!


In this double-stuffed episode, we catch up with THE DREARIES and PLASMALAB during the Ottawa Explosion festival!

Learn the most famous people Plasmalab have partied with--including Carrot Top and a close encounter with Chris Brown--and how best to sleep in an American Apparel stock room!

Plus, the Drearies give advice on starting (and avoiding) fights and share the most early 2000's Canadian concert ever!

We play these songs:


Plasmalab - Demo - Blackout
Plasmalab - Demo - Vancab
Plasmalab - Demo - Machine Mirror
Plasmalab - Demo - Stalker
Plasmalab - Demo - Nighttime USA

Towanda - Plaything - Judge Me
Notekillers - Songs and James Vol. 1 - Missilebones
The World - Managerial Materia

The Drearies - Eugene - Not That Bad
The Drearies - Eugene - Daniel Desario
The Drearies - Eugene - Guess Not
The Drearies - Eugene - Potato Man
The Drearies - Eugene - Scooter Gang
The Drearies - Eugene - Ghost Song

Angel Olsen - My Woman - Not Gonna Kill You
Diet Cig - 7” - Sleep Talk

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_129_-_PLASMALAB__THE_DREARIES-.mp3
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This week, we interview LA band GUN OUTFIT! We talk about the delicate art of dealing with kids at art galleries, the unglamorous life of a Hollywood extra, and the best driving music!

Plus, the band picks a set of sun-drenched classics!

 

We play these tunes:

Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - Another Lifeform

Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - Last Light

Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - Pleasure Seeker

Gun Outfit - Dim Light - Work Experience

Gun Outfit - Dim Light - Troubles Like Mine

Gun Outfit - Dim Light - Guilt and Regret

Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - The Party in Context

 

JJ Cale - You Got Something

Linda Hargrove - All Alone in Austin

Silly Sisters - Silver Whistle

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_128_-_GUN_OUTFIT.mp3
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This week on the show, we interviewed Joe Casey, frontman of vicious Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr. We talk about the worst hypnotists, the best bad-movie-based pinball games, bathroom strategies on tour, and the one job where he could have been easily replaced by a block of wood. 
 
Plus we play these tunes
 
Protomartyr - Under Colour of Official Right - Scum, Rise!
Protomartyr - 7” - The Milk Drinkers
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - The Devil in his Youth
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Cowards Starve
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Pontiac 87
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Why Does It Shake?
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Uncle Mother’s

Crack Cloud - Crack Cloud (cassette, EP) - Drab Measure
Nothing - Guilty of Everything - Endlessly
Brave Radar - Lion Head - Moves in Time

Lab Coast - Remember the Moon - Bored Again
Peach Kelli Pop - Halloween Mask 7” - Halloween Mask
Traditional Fools - Fools Gold - Standing in Front of Poseur

Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - Day In, Day Out
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic - Between Planets
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_127_PROTOMARTYR_MAY_18.mp3
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This week on the show, we interview Jarrad of bubblegum punk band TOUGH AGE! Jarrad gives listeners a primer on post-modern SNES game Earthbound, a passionate defense of Disneyland, and names the many movies Tough Age posters have showed up in! Hint: the movies have featured Sylvester Stallone and Larry the Cable guy.

Plus, we play these tunes:

Tough Age - Tough Age - Sea of White
Tough Age - I Get The Feeling Central - Flamenco Wiccan
Tough Age - Single - Ooh Aah Oh Wow
Tough Age - I Get The Feeling Central - Snakes and Ladders
Tough Age - I Get The Feeling Central - New Orleans Square
Tough Age - Tough Age - The Heart of Juliet Jones

Flasher - Flasher cassette - Erase Myself
White Lung - Paradise - Kiss Me When I Bleed
Doxx - Doxx - Baby Doomer
Pink Wash - Your Cure Your Soil - So Long

Hooded Fang - Venus on Edge - Tunnel Vision
Black Mountain - IV - Florian Saucer Attack
Lust For Youth - Compassion - Limerence

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_126_TOUGH_AGE1.mp3
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This week on the show we interview artist and musician CHANDRA! In the 80s a twelve-year-old Chandra fronted her very own mutant-disco, post-punk group and recorded the recently reissued cult-classic TRANSPORTATION! We talk to Chandra about her current work, helping kids to write music, and we run down a roster of the stranger characters she's encountered in her career, including Captain Kangaroo, Andy Warhol, and the not-so-strange Jennifer Garner!

We play these tunes:

Chandra - Transportation - Subways
Chandra - Transportation - Oposite
Chandra - Transportation - Stranger
Chandra - Transportation - Something
Chandra - Transportation - Concentration
Chandra - Transportation - Get it Out of Your System

BB Cream - BB Cream - Mother Nature
Human Ceremony - Sunflower Bean - Wall Watcher
Whitney - Light Upon the Lake - Golden Days
Alex G - Beach Music - Kicker

Bart - Holomew - On/Off
Doomsquad - Total Time - Who Owns Noon in Sandusky?
Solids - Else - Wait it Out
Peach Kelli Pop - Peach Kelli Pop III - Shampoo

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_125_-_CHANDRA_1.mp3
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Legendary musician and music writer John Robb of THE MEMBRANES joins us to talk about punk rock history, taking over the towers of the world, and why more bands should have paid attention in science class!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-MAR_23_EPISODE_124_THE_MEMBRANES__PT_1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:52pm EDT

DIAT joins us from Germany to talk rolling around in shit on tour, being a square in punk music, and reverse-psychology police!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISOE_123_DIAT_PT_1_.mp3
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This week on the show, we talk to Gwen and Kerry of Calgary’s JUICE BOX! Juice Box write post punk songs inspired by internet comments and texts from creeps.

The band joined us from the CJSW studios in Calgary to take the CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE, and we learn about gopher museums, commemorative pope plates and alternative uses for sex swings. Plus we find out the pitfalls of an iPad based live show.

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_122_-_JUICEBOX_PT_1_.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:16am EDT

Chicago's Daylight Robbery is releasing their third album, Accumulated Error, on Deranged records. It’s 10 songs of razor sharp, self described “adult punk”.
 
We talk to the band about the cheese snacks of Australia, the production style of Pickle the dog, and regional Chicago liqueur Malort—which is either delicious, or tastes like burnt hair. Plus we get a day in the life of an adult Chicago punk!
 
We play these tunes:
 

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Children - 2:52

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Goon Beat - 2:54

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - New Threat - 2:48

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Telegraphing - 2:24

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Walk Away - 3:15

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_121_-_DAYLIGHT_ROBBERY_PT_1.mp3
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CITY SLANG presents REST OF THE BEST featuring the best clips that never made the air! Featuring:

CENTURY PALM failing at Simpsons impressions!

DILLY DALLY refusing the theory that humans are living doughnut holes!

MIKE KROL and Travis discussing little-known Devo trivia involving Johnny Rotten and Richard Branson!

PAVILION reviewing the black whopper!

POP 1280 make fun of punks and fantasize about the Gattica-verse!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_FEB_10_PT_1_EP_120_-_BEST_OF_THE_REST.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:02pm EDT

Sunday, February 28 at GABBA HEY!

Direct download: COMMERCIAL.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:38am EDT

This week on the show, we speak with Chris Bugg & Ivan Drip of New York’s Pop. 1280. They’ve just released their new Paradise LP on Sacred Bones. It’s a dark and slimy trip through the grimey sewers of a dystopian city and you’ll be hearing tracks from it during our interview.

We discuss the worst Star Trek episodes, signing cigarettes, NOT losing their van in Ottawa, NOT getting attacked by a sound guy, and more rumours, lies and exaggerations.

 

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Phantom Freighter - 3:17

Pop 1280 - Paradise - USS ISS - 3:25

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Chromidia - 2:50

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Paradise - 3:36

Pop 1280 - Paradise - The Last Undertaker - 4:00

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Kingdom Come - 4:30

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_119_-_POP_1280.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:14am EDT

This week on the show, we interview Steve, guitar player & singer of Victoria, BC’s Freak Heat Waves. We talk about the infamous live show of Karate Girlfriend, and Steve gives us a rundown of the band’s favorite horror and sci-fi flicks. PLUS we help spread the myth of a legendary Freak Heat Waves on-stage incident that may or may not involve human waste!

Direct download: EPISODE_118_FREAK_HEAT_WAVES.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:57am EDT

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