CITY SLANG

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
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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
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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
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Sunday, February 28 at GABBA HEY!

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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
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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
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This week on the show, we interview Toronto’s Pavilion. We talk to Grace, Julie, and Mike before a music video shoot in Scarborough. We discuss band names, fast food, and even though Pavilion drummer Jonah was away in England, we play a game of “Guess the question”, using his pre-written answers! Hilarity ensues!

Plus we play songs from their demo and premiere their new digital single!

Pavilion - Mercury Girls Demo - In Your Hands - 3:27 - CC

Pavilion - Mercury Girls Demo - Beautiful Sight - 4:03 - CC

Pavilion - Mercury Girls Demo - Pale Shades of Green - 4:59 - CC

Pavilion - Mercury Girls Demo - Binds - 3:43 - CC

Pavilion - Single - Hyacinth - 5:26 - CC

Pavilion - Single - Vexation of Sprite - 5:09 - CC

 

 

 

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EP_117_PAVILION.mp3
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Fine-art croissants SOUPCANS join us to discuss acid trips in new york, Primus influences, James Chance's melting hair, and more!

Plus, an epic tale of playing a show at an elementary school to a group of freaked out kids!

We play these tunes:

ISS - ISS - (I Want A) Amphetamine Prescription
Nervosas - S/T - Night Room
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right - Boice or Boyce

New Fries - Fresh Face Forward - Plexiglass
Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie’s State of Mind - Dig A Hole
Carpenters - Carpenters - Superstar

Gold Class - It's You - Life As A Gun
Mass Gothic - Nice Night - Nice Night
Gazebos - Die Alone - I Don't Want To Be Here
Renny Wilson - Punk Explosion/Extension - Escaping Alive

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_116_SOUPCANS_-_DEC_16_2015.mp3
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TV FREAKS return to the show! They give some sound advice on getting smashed, eating schawarma, and they literally drink a jar of tequila filled with hot peppers! Business as usual.

PLUS a hair-raising adventure: Travis gets lost in a forest while broadcasting live from a secret location!

TV Freaks - Glue
TV Freaks - Done It Again
TV Freaks - Thirteen
TV Freaks - Pick My Brain
TV Freaks - Ebb & Flow
TV Freaks - Love Fade
TV Freaks - Act of Contrition

Flesh Rag - 7" - It Ain't Enough
The Mystics - Demo II - Seeds
The Vapids - The Point Remains the Same 7" - Hazzard County

Left For Dead - Devoid of Everything - Second Guess
Parquet Courts - Monastic Living - No, No, No!
Telstar Drugs - Sonatine - Pulley
Family Band - Family Band ’15 - Take Care
Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale - Mixer

Partner - Single - The Ellen Page
Yellowteeth - Rat King II - BFF
The Mouthbreathers - Corrupt the Youth - College Rock

The Subtractions - It’s Exposed 7” - Fresno’s Dead

Direct download: 115-_DEC_2_2015_lib.mp3
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Emmanuel and Travis have a CITY SLANG clearance on VICIOUS TUNES, and end the show with ex-guests Chad VanGaalen and Seth Smith's new experimental techno tape, Seed of Dorzon! Plus, we get a sneak peek at next week's TV FREAKS interview!

Hear these tunes:

Pavilion - Demo 2015 - In Your Hands
No Money - Harvest From The Mindfields of Wild Boredom - Zakary Slax
Cupcake Ductape - Get Over It EP - Downtown
Old and Weird - split w/ New Fries - Kirkobain

Soupcans - Soft Party - Crimes 1
Pretty Boys - Grubs - Orange Water
Prom Nite - Tape 1 - Snakes

Casper Skulls - King of Gold 7” - King of Gold
I Hate Sex - Circle Thinking - Sleep Paralysis
PC Worship - Basement Hysteria - Social Friction


Dame - Charm School - Bubble Baby
The Minneapolis Uranium Club - Performs Human Exploration - Rafter Man
La Misma - Kanizadi - Kanizadi

Chad Vangaalen & Seth Smith - Seed of Dorzon - Part 1

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_episode_114.mp3
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The great CENTURY PALM join us on a spooky Hallow's Eve! We caught up with the band before our CHUO benefit show to talk vampire instagrams, haunted hostels, and whether or not Jim Varney lives! Know what I mean, Vern? PLUS a Best-Show-related bombshell is dropped and a mic is literally dropped!

Meanwhile, Emmanuel and Travis attempt a haunted intro, and play a set of absolutely vicious tunes, including a set from the Not Dead Yet fest.

Direct download: City_Slang_112.mp3
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The great MIKE KROL returns to CITY SLANG! We conduct the KROL REPORT to update listeners on breaking news since Mike's last interview, and Mike tells us about "visiting" Danzig's and Rivers Cuomo's homes!

Plus, support our mother station CHUO by visiting the CHUO website and buying a CITY SLANG shirt!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_111_MIKE_KROL_-_OCT_14_2015.mp3
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Katie of DILLY DALLY talks to us about good tattoos, great karaoke playlists, and the grossest part about being a swap monster! Plus, we get to the bottom of which is worse: farts or burps? 

Katie gives us her picks for a Toronto playlist, and we play some new tunes:

Dilly Dally - Sore - Purple Rage
Dilly Dally - Sore - Desire
Dilly Dally - Single - Candy Mountain
Dilly Dally - Single - Gender Role
Dilly Dally - Sore - Ballin’ Chain
Dilly Dally - Sore - Snake Head

Weaves - Single - Shithole
Bad Channels - Death Toll EP - Death Toll
Crosss - LO - Eye Seance
Vallens - Single - Dark Tunnel

Lust For Youth - International - Epoetin Alfa
US Girls - Half Free - Woman’s Work

Originally aired Oct. 7, 2015

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_110_DILLY_DALLY_-_OCT_7_2015.mp3
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Travis catches up with OLD AND WEIRD and HEAVEN FOR REAL after a backyard show! It’s a ramshackle interview covering disgusting road food and James Franco!

Plus new tunes, and more! Hear these songs:

Old & Weird - Split 7" w/ New Fries - Yes I Care
Heaven For Real - Split 7" w/ Homebody - O So Right
Old & Weird - Split 7" w/ New Fries - Kirkobaine
Heaven For Real - Craft Single - You Are The One With The Iron-Heart Device
Old & Weird - What I Saw - Awake My Face Alive

Homebody - Split 7” w/ Heaven For Real - Vestigial Organ
New Fries - Split 7" w/ Old & Weird - Jazz

Institute - Catharsis - Perpetual Ebb
Dope Body - Kunk - Old Grey
Dilly Dally - Sore - Purple Rage
Destruction Unit - Negative Feedback Resistor - If Death Ever Slept

Babysitter - Babysitter - Exploding Youth
No Aloha - No Problemo - Feelies

Homeshake - Midnight Snack - Heat

 

Originally aired Sept. 24, 2015

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_109_OLD__WEIRD__HEAVEN_FOR_REAL_-_SEPT_24_2015.mp3
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The great CITY SLANG puke off! We pull the grossest highlights from the history of the show, including interviews from Moss Lime, Guantanamo Baywatch, Boyhood, Lower, Merchandise, Freak Heat Waves, Chad VanGaalen, and The Beverleys! Find out who has cleaned the worst toilets, who puked out of a moving car, and who watches porno bloopers!

 

Plus non-stop gross tunes!

 

Moss Lime - July 1st - Ice Cream Sandwiches

Guantanamo Baywatch - Oh Rats 7" - A Boy To Love

Boyhood - Single - H3 Don't

Lower - 7" - Someone's Got It In For Me

Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie's State of Mind - Dig A Hole

The Beverleys - Brutal - Visions

 

Seth Smith - Lowlife Score - Fast Food

Lumpy and The Dumpers - Ausmuteants split - Noxious

Human Eye - They Came From The Sky - Junkyard Heart

Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - Hot Dog Water

Cold Warps - Slimer 7" - Slimer

 

Mean Jeans - Are You Serious? - Slime Time

HSY - EP - Slimeball

Lumpy & The Dumpers - 7" - Too Much Slime

Black Lips - Let It Bloom - Punk Slime

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_108_THE_GROSS_SHOW_-_SEPT_17_2015.mp3
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Emmanuel and Travis talk about our new reading initiative, #punksnotread! Use the hashtag on Instagram to share what you read this summer. Plus tons of new tunes, featuring CITY SLANG favourites and past guests.

 

 

Sheer Agony - Masterpiece - I Have a Dream

Mike Krol - Turkey - Neighborhood Watch

Absolutely Free - S/T - Blurred Lens

No Joy - More Faithful - I Am An Eye Machine

 

Lower - I'm A Lazy Son… But I'm The Only Son EP - At The Endless Party EP

Helen - The Original Faces - Violet

Marching Church - This World Is Not Enough - King of Song

Lunch - Let Us Have Madness Openly - Marble Foyer

 

Adult Mom - Momentary Lapse of Happily - When You Are Happy

Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes - (I've Got The) Sanctioned Blues

Grave Babies - Holographic Violence - Eternal (On & On)


Nap Eyes - Whine of the Mystic - No Fear of Hellfire

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_107_-_SEP_9_2015.mp3
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All music episode this week, featuring brand new releases and a spotlight on the BERSERKTOWN festival! Plus two new compilations shining a light on lost 90s punk gems and UK post-punk singles! Get ready for DESTROY ALL ART and NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL DIY!

Hear these tunes:

Rats on Rafts - Tape Hiss - Rat Poison Face - 3:09 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

HSY - Bask - Scratch - 2:14 CC

Milk Teeth - Sad Sack - Melon Blade - 3:33

Pretty Girls - Destroy All Art compilation - The Kids are All Fucked - 2:16

I'm Gonna Stab You - Destroy All Art compilation - The Slide - 1:38

Several Species - Destroy All Art compilation - Fight - 2:50

Tesco Bombers - Now That's What I Call DIY - Break The Ice At Parties - 3:29

Fatal Microbes - Now That's What I Call DIY - Violence Grows - 3:15

The Fakes - Now That's What I Call DIY - Look Out - 3:24

Tony Molina - Dissed & Dismissed - Change My Ways - 1:12

Total Control - Typical System - Expensive Dog - 3:52

Milk Music - Beyond Living - Beyond Living - 3:33

Wax Idols - Schadenfreude 7" - The Last Drop - 4:32

Juanita y Los Feos - Nueva Numancia - Vallecas - 2:43

Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power - Doctor - 2:48

Vacation - Non-Person - Decaying - 1:17

Downtown Boys - Full Communism - Monstro - 03:24

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_105_-_AUG_5_2015.mp3
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CHASTITIY BELT joins us at the Ottawa Explosion weekend to do the CITY SLANG questionnaire! The nicest band in all of Seattle refuses to trash talk, design leopard print costumes, and survive falling off stages!

Plus a set of discovered-in-Halifax tunes, and new releases!

Hear these songs:

Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Drone
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Trapped
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Why Try
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - On The Floor
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - The Thing
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Cool Slut

Dyscontrol - Lies 7" - Lies
Bloodsport - Goodbye to the Holy Mountain - Photos From My Last Trip to Salem 
Lantern - I don’t know 7" - I Don’t Know
Homo Duplex - On and On Or On 7" - Caramel Kite
Negative Scanner - Negative Scanner - Would You Rather?

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_103_CHASTITY_BELT_-_JULY_15_2015.mp3
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Travis puts GUANTANOMA BAYWATCH through the CITY SLANG questionnaire! They give some of the wackiest answers yet, and tell the story of the time NOBUNNY fixed their car with an inflatable clown!

Plus brand new tunes and a sneak peak at our CHASTITY BELT episode!

Hear these tunes:

Guantanamo Baywatch - Oh Rats! 7" - Oh Rats!
Guantanamo Baywatch - Chest Crawl - Chest Crawl
Guantanamo Baywatch - Chest Crawl - Pina Colada
Guantanamo Baywatch - Darling… It's Too Late - Mr. Rebel
Guantanamo Baywatch - Darling… It's Too Late - Too Late

Laika's Orbit - Summer Promo Tape - No Matter What It Takes
Fleabite - TTYL EP - What's Up
Parasol - Not There - Feedback Loop
Broken Prayer - Misanthropocentric AKA Droid's Blood - Colors
All Dogs - unreleased - Georgia
Thee Tsunamis - Saturday Night Sweetheart
Bully - Feels Like - I Remember

TV Wonder - Bird Sounds - Bamboo Frame

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_102_GUANTANAMO_BAYWATCH_-_JULY_8_2015.mp3
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Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_101_-_JUNE_24_2015.mp3
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We caught up with Edmonton’s RHYTHM OF CRUELTY to talk about American snacks, green onion cakes, and the wildest tapes they’re listening to on tour!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_100_RHYTHM_OF_CRUELTY-_fixed_audio_-__MAY_27_2015.mp3
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Travis and Emmanuel are late for their show! The duo struggles to piece together killer tunes while Travis fumbles his keys and ties his shoes together! WILL THEY MAKE IT TIME?! Listen to find out!

 

Hear these songs:

 

Martha - Split 7" - The Historian

Martha - Split 7" - Dom Kan Inte Hora Musiken - 2:10 

Benny The Jet Rodriguez - Split 7" - In Love - 2:00

Benny The Jet Rodriguez - Split 7" - Wish You Were Beer - 2:53

 

Flesh World - The Wild Animals in My Life - Poolside Boys - 2:40

Dodgers - Bombshells - Cherry 2000 - 3:22 CC

Clean Girls - Despite You - Day of the Woman - 4:17 

 

Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - Transparency - 4:42 - CC 

Blue Angel - Demo - Don't Want Need To - 3:09 - CC

Sailor Jupiter - Demo - Jesus Freak - 3:32 - CC

 

The Gotobeds - People Are Revolting - Fast Trash - 2:52

Turn To Crime - Actions - Actions - 4:20 

 

Bitchkraft - Mascot - Didn’t Know - 5:34

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress - Piss Crowns Are Trebled - 13:50

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_99_-_MAY_13_2015.mp3
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This week we bring you an all-time epic episode!

We hit a gold mine of hilarious dirt when we interviewed NERVOUS TALK’s Joel Butler! We use his wild tour stories to see how much his friends in TOUGH AGE and FIST CITY know about him, in a gameshow we call YOU DON’T KNOW JACK ABOUT JOEL!

Tall tales of daredevil lawnmower jumps and B.A. JOHNSTON’s van ensues!

Plus a tape segment, new songs, and more!

We play these tunes:

Nervous Talk - S/T - Different Person
Nervous Talk - S/T - Introductions 
Nervous Talk - S/T - Something Wrong
Nervous Talk - S/T - Nothing To Say
Nervous Talk - S/T - Already Gone

Fist City - It’s 1983, Grow Up! - Boring Kids
Tough Age - Play Cub’s Hot Dog Day - Flying Carpet

Mikal Cronin - MCIII - Made My Mind Up
Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs - The Mirror
Warm Soda - Symbolic Dream - I Wanna Go Fast

Sheer Mag - II 7” - Button Up
SUUNS & Jerusalem In My Heart - S/T - Metal

The Yips - The Yips/Organ Eyes split tape - Let Go
The Yips - The Yips/Organ Eyes split tape - Obsession
Organ Eyes - The Yips/Organ Eyes split tape - Expectations
Organ Eyes - The Yips/Organ Eyes split tape

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_98_NERVOUS_TALK_-_MAY_6_2015_4.47.10_PM.mp3
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CITY SLANG moves to a new timeslot! Listen live on CHUO between 4-5pm on Wednesdays! PRIME TIME!

We finish the season off by playing killer tunes, celebrate the weather, and a cassette segment!

We play these songs:

Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma - Peking Spring
Rites of Spring - End on End - Spring
Eric's Trip - Spring - 3:04
Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - Springtime

Metz - II - Wait in Line
Snooty Garbagemen - Snooty Garbagemen - You & Earnie
Nancy Pants - Total Nancy Pants - Apple

Shang-A-Lang - Sad Magic - Nasty Weather
Cheap Girls - My Roarin' 20s - Sleeping Weather
Reigning Sound - Time Bomb Highschool - Stormy Weather

Pinkwash - Your Cure Your Soil - Mattress
Saffrons - Saffrons - Debris

Big Dick - Disappointment
Kappa Chow - Collected Output as of Now - Jump

Lids - EP - Sarsfest

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_97_-_APR_27_2015.mp3
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Emmanuel and Travis nearly get replaced by commercial radio DJs! Plus funding drive, show highlights from the last season, and an all-time classic bleepoff!

Support CHUO during funding drive by heading to http://chuo.fm/funding-drive-2/

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_96_FD_SPECIAL_-_APR_20_2015.mp3
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Jam-packed show this week! First up, SCREAMING FEMALES talk about saving muskrats in Ottawa, belt collections, and pick a set of killer tunes!

Then, ANAMAI gives us an ultra chill interview, gives tips on relaxing, and definitely talks about ghosts again!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_95_SCREAMING_FEMALES__ANAMAI_-_APR_13_2015.mp3
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Festival special this week! We spotlight artists playing Ottawa ExplosionLawnya Vawnya, and Kazoofest!

Plus, a highlights from our OTTAWA EXPLOSION interviews, and a special set of music from Natalie of NOTS!

Hear these tunes:

Aquarian Blood - 7” - Savage Mind
Giorgio Murderer - Primitive World - Primitive World
Golden Pelicans - S/T - Turqoise & Silver / New Jersey
Glueams - 7” - Strassen

White Lung - Deep Fantasy - Sycophant
Kappa Chow - Kappa Chow - Bang Bang
Needles//Pins - Out of This Place 7” - Out of This Place
Monomyth - Craft Single - Trash Day
Sheer Mag - 7” - Point Breeze
Earth Girls - Demo - Obey

The Famines - 2x7” - Gimme Some Numbers
Tyvek - On Triple Beams - Wayne County Roads
Fist City - It’s 1983, Grow Up! - Boring Kids
Tough Age - S/T - I Waste Too Much Time On Myself
Moss Lime - July First - July First

Teenanger - Frights - Bank Account
Weaves - Single - Motorcycle
Walrus - Glam Returns - Banger
Vulva Culture - Rolling in the Deep - Human Garbage

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_94_FESTIVAL_PREVIEW_-_MAR_23_2015.mp3
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Memphis band NOTS joins us on the show this week! We talk to singer and guitarist Natalie about playing on morning TV, the best places to party in Memphis, and photoshopping Meemaw’s cat!

Plus a special RIP Mammoth Cave set, we play an entire tape by the Coneheads, and new tunes!

Hear these songs:

Nots - We Are Nots - Reactor
Nots - We Are Nots - Decadence
Nots - We Are Nots - Black Mold
Nots - We Are Nots - Static
Nots - We Are Nots - Insect Eyes
Nots - We Are Nots - Get Along
Nots - We Are Nots - Monochromatic

Strange Attractor - Barely Doing Crime - I Need To Kill My Neighbours
Teledrome - Teledrome - Boyfriend
Nervous Talk - Introductions - Shut it Off
The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Hi Hi Hi
Feel Alright - Oahu Ohio - Dark Incantations
Gold - Losing Your Hair - Drugs

Coneheads - Selected Ringtones Tape 3 - Head Onna Steak (ver.2)
Coneheads - Selected Ringtones Tape 3 - Smiling Beat of Life
Coneheads - Selected Ringtones Tape 3 - Machine Gun
Coneheads - Selected Ringtones Tape 3 - Pressure On The Brain
Coneheads - Selected Ringtones Tape 3 - Baby's Crying
Coneheads - Selected Ringtones Tape 3 - 45-2566
Coneheads - Selected Ringtones Tape 3 - People Punks

Screaming Females - Rose Mountain - Ripe

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_92_NOTS_-_MAR_16_2015.mp3
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CITY SLANG returns with an hour JAM PACKED with killer tunes! Emmanuel and Travis shut up this week and let the music do the talking.

We play these tunes:

Clean Girls - Expensive Tastes split - Portion Control
Vulture Shit - Expensive Tastes split - Mouth Breather (Jesus Lizard Cover)

The Minneapolis Uranium Club Band - Demo - Rafter Man
HSY - Sally 7” - Sally
Cultural Abuse - Spray Paint the Dog - Perfect Light

Makthaverskan - Witness 7” - Witness
Mourn - Mourn - Silver Gold
Faith Healer - Cosmic Troubles - Universe

Durs Coeurs - Coeurs Durs - Piège
So Cow - The Long Con - Barry Richardson
Mean Jeans - Singles - I Remember How
Nots - We Are Nots - Monochromatic

Moon - Moon - Holy Mountain
Matthew Melton - Outside of Paradise - Images On The Sand
King’s Quest - Fox Island - Alana
First Base - You’ve Got A Hold On Me - You’ve Got A Hold On Me

Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie’s State of Mind - A Civil Servant
Alex Calder - Strange Dreams - Strange Dreams

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_91_LESS_TALK_MORE_ROCK__1.mp3
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Emmanuel catches up with Montreal’s PALE LIPS to play pinball, talk about boys, and misinterpret lyrics!

Plus a TAPE SEGMENT on Not Normal tapes, new releases from Craft Singles, and tunes from bands playing OTTAWA IMPLOSION VOL. 2!!

We play these tunes:

Pale Lips - Demo - Shim Sham Shimmy
Pale Lips - Got a Sweet Tooth 7” -  Sweet Dreams
Pale Lips - Got a Sweet Tooth 7” - Candy Song
Pale Lips - Demo - Rock n’ Roll Dipshit
Pale Lips - Got a Sweet Tooth 7” - Soda Kat

The Cute Lepers - Smart Accessories - Dirty Baby
Sheer Mag - 7” - Hard Lovin’
Average Times - S/T LP - Popsicle

G.L.O.S.S. - Demo - G.L.O.S.S. (We’re From The Future)
American Hate - Dead Squeeze EP - Cold Hands Beating Heart
Regimen - Upprepning Ar Ofrankomlig

Big Dick - Dissapointment - Bad Dream
Ultrathin - S/T LP - Got A Feeling
Boyhood - When I’m Hungry LP

Un Blonde - Part of Us Both - Not One
Jons - Short Swim - Long Interior
Whimm - Receptors - Undermine

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_90_PALE_LIPS_-_FEB_9_2015.mp3
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Graeme Stewart of THE LAURAS previously appeared on CITY SLANG as a member of Monomyth, but this time we make him answer the CITY SLANG questionnaire! We get to the bottom of his show amnesia, and hear the mildest curse word ever not censored on CITY SLANG!
 
Plus, Emmanuel's new hair-brained theme: THE NAME GAME! We play all name bands! 
 
Hear these tunes:
 

The Lauras - The Lauras - Cloudy Weight

The Lauras - The Lauras -Lazy

The Lauras - The Lauras -Home

The Lauras - The Lauras - Duncan

The Lauras - The Lauras - And When The Sun


Special Noise - Window Ballet 3: The Island Nevermind - Snoop Lion

New Fries - Fresh Face Forward - Plexiglass

Tasseomancy - Tasseotape - Braid. Wind is Coming


Start Something - Hard Times 7" - Hard Times

Different Skeletons - Devils - My Chagrin

Betrayers - Let The Good Times Die - Do You Smoke?


Shirley Ellis - Single - The Name Game


The Courtneys - S/T LP - Nu Sundae

The Beverleys - EP - Dreams

The Riff Randells - S/T LP - Mississippi Hot Dog


Benny The Jet Rodriguez - Home. Run. - Alley Cat

Martha - Courting Strong - Dust, Juice, Bones & Hair

Roberta Bondar - Caustic - Palm Bay
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_89_THE_LAURAS_-_NAME_GAME_-_JAN_26_2015.mp3
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Don’t listen on an empty stomach, it’s the FOOD EPISODE! Travis plays an all ice cream set, Emmanuel plays food punk classics, and our hosts get into a full-fledged FOOD FIGHT!

We play classic CITY SLANG food moments with BRAZILIAN MONEY, COUSINS, VIET CONG, LOWER, and MERCHANDISE!

PLUS hear the all-time weird lost new wave classic, FOOD FIGHT, by the Village People!

We play these tunes:

Descendents - Fat EP - I Like Food

Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
Moss Lime - July First - Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ice Cream - N/A - Plastic
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Ice Cream Man

Personal & The Pizzas - 7” - I Don’t Wanna Be No Personal Pizza
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Back Yard - Nutrition
Clorox Girls - J’aime Les Filles - Le Banana Split
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist - Soup Is Good Food

Towanda - Black Sheep EP - Underraged
NVN - EP - Snow
Learning - Culkin - The Gun Show

Big Dick - Disappointment - Let Down
The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles 2008-2011 - Hi Hi Hi

Century Palm - Century Palm - New Creation

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_88_FOOD_SHOW_-_JAN_19_2015.mp3
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Katie of PRIESTS joins us to talk about hair cair, a very strange performance on the Chris Gethard show more! Meanwhile, Travis fails to get dirt on Ian Svenonius and flunks being a Taylor Swift fan!

Emmanuel plays a DC punk set, and we play tons of new tunes as usual!

This week features:

Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power - Doctor
Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power - Modern Love/ No Weapon
Priests - Tape Two - Leave Me Alone
Priests - Radiation 7” - Radiation

Nation of Ulysses - 13 Point Program to Destroy America - Spectra Sonic Sound
Minor Threat - Minor Threat EP - Screamin’ At A Wall
Red C - Flex Your Head - Pressure’s On
Chalk Circle - Reflection - Reflection

Viet Cong - Viet Cong - Silhouettes
Surveillance - Stressed and Depressed - Fucked Up and Naked
Meat Wave - Brother - Sham King

So Cow - The Long Con - Science Fiction
AJ Davila y Terror Amor - Beibi - Vamonos Lejos
Ty Segall - Mr Face 7” - Circles
Nots - Nots - Static

Pinner - #1 Demos - Human Person
Viet Cong - Viet Cong - Pointless Experience

 

Originally aired Jan. 12, 2014

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_87_PRIESTS_-_JAN_12_2015.mp3
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Old-man Emmanuel and old-man Travis broadcast from THE FUTURE and remember the best interviews of 2014!

 

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_86_-_BEST_OF_2014_PART_2_-_DEC_29_1.mp3
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Old-man Emmanuel and old-man Travis broadcast from THE FUTURE and remember the best interviews of 2014!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_85_-_BEST_OF_2014_PART_1_-_DEC_22.mp3
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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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ACTION PACKED SHOW THIS WEEK!

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
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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
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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
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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
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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

NICK FLANAGAN of COMEDY, and BRUTAL KNIGHTS, and WRONG HOLE talks to us about hair care, his gross injuries, and gets hip with Ottawa and its strip clubs!

Plus, Travis works out some elevator-related issues after getting stuck in an elevator for an hour with an ALL-ELEVATOR-SET!

Plus hear these tunes:

Brutal Knights - Blown 2 Completion - Take Breaks

Brutal Knights - Feast of Shame - Grow Up Throw Up

Brutal Knights - Feast of Shame - We Have A Website

Brutal Knights - Life Ain't Cool 7" - Fake Youth

Brutal Knights - Life Ain't Cool 7" - Life Ain't Cool

Teen Crud Combo - Judgement Night Soundtrack Part II - Wash Dish

Wrong Hole - Unreleased - What Is A Car?

Plastic Idols - I.U.D. 7" - Sophistication

The Lepers - S/T - Christmas In Reverse

Resurrection Band - Mommy Don't Love Daddy Any More - Elevator Muzik

13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators - Thru The Rhythm

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Elevate Me Later

Pixies - Come On Pilgrim - Levitate Me


The White Wires - WWII - And Then You Told Me

Kappa Chow - 7" - I Want Out

Abject Pax - 7" - Selfish Hands


Average Times - Average Times - She Knows

HSY - HSY - Tartar Mouth

Tough Age - Open It Up


Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_45_-_DEC_16_2013.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:07pm EDT

Travis fucked up the interview recording with Will Anderson of WEED, who put out one of his favourite records of the year! He desperately tries to recreate it with Will's friends Anna and Vance on the line! Hear them talk about dirty dish duty, Seinfeld, and the bands near-murder on a train!

Plus French tunes, and new tunes from DAGGER EYES!

Weed - Deserve - Silent Partner

Weed - Deserve - Hollowed Out

Weed - Deserve - Granted

Weed - Gun Control EP - Amber


Alex Bourque - Dog years EP - Cut The Strings

The Soupcans - Parasite Brain - Parasite Brain

White Poppy - White Poppy - Wear Me Away


Les Guenilles - Zéro pis une barre - La scène locale

Cheval Fou - Pété Rare - Code S

Panache - Vie de Velours - Fils d’un fils


First Base - First Base - That’s My Girlfriend

Los - 7” - Ghost

The Dagger Eyes - Reaper - Cutting Edge

The Dagger Eyes - Reaper - New Wave

The Dagger Eyes - Reaper - The Rat

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_44_-_DEC_9_2013.wav.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:03pm EDT

DOG DAY's SETH SMITH talks about Woofy, chickens, and LOWLIFE!

SETH SMITH of DOG DAY and YORODEO is on the show! We talk about his dog Woofy, his surreal horror movie LOWLIFE, and extensive conversations about his chickens.

Plus, a DOG DAY giveaway, and these tunes:

Dog Day - Night Group - Lydia
Dog Day - Concentration - Happiness
Dog Day - Fade Out - Wasted
Dog Day - Fade Out - Sandwich
Dog Day - Fade Out - Leave Your Body
Dog Day - Deformer - Eurozone

EAGULLS - EAGULLS - Coffin
Dyscontrol - Lies 7" - LIES
ANTI… - Demo - Untitled

Monomyth - Monomyth - Hiroshima
Heaven For Real - WANTON - Want On

Hawkeyes - Poison Slows You Down - The Howling Damned

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Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_43_-_DEC_2_2013.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:59pm EDT

NEW TUNES GALORE! Hear the best new releases before the new year, plus a set of Craft Single favourites, and a tribute to the FUN BOY CLUB HOUSE, home of the NEW SWEARS.

RIP Fun Boy Club House.

Crystal Stilts - Nature Noir - Spirit in Front of Me
Night Beats - Sonic Bloom - Sonic Bloom
The Obits - Taste The Diff - Bed & Bugs
Jacuzzi Boys - Hotline - Jacuzzi Boys

Solids - Off White - Blame Confusion
King Krule - Easy Easy from 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
Dog Day - Sunset - Fade Out
La Luz - It’s Alive - It’s Alive

The Ketamines - So Hot! - So Hot!
Invasions - Born On A Wave - Invasions
Freelove Fenner - Do Not Affect a Breezy Manner - Dr. D

Special Costello - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Chlorinated Lung
Old & Weird - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Minstrel Rock
Heaven For Real - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - You Are The One With The Iron Heart Device
Yellowteeth - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Repo

New Swears - New Swears - Paradise

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_42_-_NOV_25_2013.wav.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:26pm EDT

Emmanuel and Travis are back in the studio!

They play a set of NON-STOP HITS, including new and weird tunes, and sets inspired by the Not Dead Yet festival and the Fall Down Get Down festival!

PLUS, check out our new logo by Michael Haddad! And keep your eyez on the horizon for the upcoming CITY SLANG ZINE ISSUE #1! Tell yr friends!

Listen to these crazy tracks:

All Dogs - All Dogs 7” - Dummy

Audacity - Butter Knife - Dancing Under Soft Light
Average Times - Average Times - Popsicle
Hunters - Hunters - Narcissist

Kremlin - Drunk In The Gulag - Steel Case
Proxy - Police Car 7” - Police Car
Asile - Kitchissippi Toxique - Haute-Tension
S.H.I.T. - Demo 2012 - Feeding Time

Big Eyes - Almost Famous - Wanted Sometimes

Octagrape - Red UFO - Real Light
Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing - Green Chartreuse
Wage Theft - Demo - Burn Yr Bra/Jockstrap
Tough Age - Tough Age - Seahorse

Steve Adamyk Band - Monterrey 7” - Front to Back
Nervous Talk - Introductions 7” - Introductions
Tranzmitors - Busy Singles - Between Planets

Needles//Pins - Out of This Place 7” - Out of This Place

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_41_-_NOV_18_2013.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Andy March of CROSSS and Craft Singles tells us about nearly blowing up a car in the mountains of BC, an ancient lathe cutter, and CROSSS and their bittersweet trip to this summer's Sled Island festival!

Plus, a music tribute to THE BEST SHOW ON WFMU!




CROSSS - Obsidian Spectre - Sacred Cow - 2:30
CROSSS - Craft Single - Mountain King - 4:15
Cousins - Khyber Compilation - Khyber - 1:49
CROSSS - Craft Single - Bones Brigade - 3:57
CROSSS - CROSSS/ Un Blond - Saccharine - 6:48

Pink Faeries - Total Energy Records compilation ‘Do It: Rare Live and Studio Recordings (1969 – 1971) - Do It - 3:00
Sweet - Action single - Action - 3:32
GG Allin - You Die When You Die - 1:36
Big Dipper - Droogs split - Jet - 3:48

Anamai Altar Coals single - Altar Coals - 3:13
Paul Jacobs - Drug Theatres - Sharp Dress 3:19
The Pink Noise - Greedy Heart - Greedy Heart - 5:08

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_40_-_NOV_4_2013.wav.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:57pm EDT

Garett and Raymond of THE FAMINES join us to talk about food trucks, #bangersrevisited, and a party foul that nearly ended in DEATH!

Plus a set pulled from the best of Garett's record collection, and the weirdest tunes from Canada and beyond!

Featuring tunes from:

The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Free Love is a Sales Technique

The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - The First World War

The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - I Like Some of the Things You Do

Bad Brains - Bad Brains - Sailin On

The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Gimme Some Numbers

The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Faux Famous

New Swears - Satan Loves You

Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 - Cornucopia

Snake apartment - Paint the Walls - Paint the Walls

Beastie Boys - Aglio E Olio - You Catch a Bad One

Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard - Violent school

Scattered Clouds - EP - Charismatic, Self Indulgent, Self Obsessed

EXPWY - Deep Joy - Erect a Southern Gate

Hag Face - HAG FACE - Brat

Lou reed - Rock And Roll Heart - Temporary Thing

Direct download: CITY_SLANG.mp3
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HSY joins us in a haunted jail to share spooky ghost stories and talk about Frankensteins! Our interview nearly goes off the rails when it gets crashed by DoomsquadPetra Glynt, and a haunted tour! SPOOOOOKY!

Plus, Emmanuel plays a set of Craft Singles, including a favourite fromYellowteeth (RIP).

And hear these most excellent tunes:

HSY - HSY / Das Rad split tape - Scratch
HSY - EP - Milk Chug
HSY - EP - Waffles
Doomsquad - Doomsquad EP - Ovoo
HSY - EP - Tartar Mouth

Panache - Vie de velours - Léa dans les magazines
Quaker Parents - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Rubber Match
The You Are Minez - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Oh Sidney
Yellowteeth - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Explore Scandinavia

Kent State - The Wrong Side of History - Behind Closed Doors
Suspect - Suspect - Tyranny of The Desert
White Lung - Blow It South 7” - Blow It South

Petra Glynt - Of This Land - Of This Land

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_28_-_OCT_21_2013.wav.mp3
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TEENANGER talk about Rob Ford's best moments, staying at Tom Cochrane's ranch, and the time THE SOUPCANS dropped acid in New York! 

Plus songs from the Hand Drawn Dracula Nirvana tribute and tons o' hits! 

Teenanger - Fright - Bank Account 
Teenanger - Frights - Cops (But Not) 
Teenanger - Singles Don't $ell - Singles Don't $ell 
Teenanger - Singles Don't $ell - Teenanger 

Teenanger - Milkin' It - Very Ape 
Milk Lines - Milkin' It - Sappy 
HSY - Milkin' It - Moist Vagina 

Skinny Kids - Demo - Sandalwood & Peppermint 
The #1s - Sharon - Sharon 
The Moas - The Moas - Mine Is A Mess 

Rat Stab - Demo - Mangel 
Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling - I 
Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram - Brotherhood of the Ram 

Hooded Fang - Milkin' It - Tourettes

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_37_-_OCT_7_2013.wav.mp3
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Old and Weird have a few drinks during band practice and talk to us about getting in trouble with the police, and leather goods, and give a crush talk! Plus, Ryan of CROSSS crashes the interview!

Emmanuel plays songs that are both old and include the word "weird"!

Plus, hear these tunes!

Old and Weird - Craft Single - Fan Song
Old and Weird - Judy Cool - All of My Friends
Old and Weird - Judy Cool - Judy Cool
Old and Weird - Life's Tough Not Really - Monster Daze
Crosss - Obsidian Sphere - Smoke

Moon - Moon - Stained Glass
Heaven for Real - Wanton - Want On
Nap Eyes - Four More Songs - A Stolen Boy
Monomyth - Monomyth - Hiroshima

Crime - San Francisco's Still Doomed - Rockin' Weird
MDC - Millions of Dead Cops - My Family Is A Little Weird
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life - Some Weird Sin
Weirdos - 7" - We Got The Neutron Bomb

Weed - Deserve - Gun Shy
FUZZ - FUZZ - What's In My Head

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_37_-_SEPT_30_2013.mp3
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Tunes, tunes, tunes! We play the best new records, including hits off the labels Mammoth Cave, Fixture Records, Perdu, and Buzz!

Plus a few questions for JAG of the band WTCHS!

Hear songs by Weaves, Das Rad, HSY, WTCHS, Tropical Popsicle, LAMBS, Disappears, Crystal Stilts, Gold, Feel Alright, Nervous Talk, Free Love Fenner, Sheer Agony, Lantern, and Jeans Boots!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_35_-_SEPT_23_2013.wav.mp3
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Eric McQuiggan of the band KING'S QUEST and the video game collective DIRTY RECTANGLES talks to Travis about the most rock and roll moments in video game history! Listen to great punk rock NES soundtracks! Thrill to the Journey arcade machine! SKATE OR DIE! MANIAC MANSION! DICK DALE AND ROCKET JOCKEY!

Plus, hear tunes from Mi-Sex, King's Quest, Fucking Werewolf ASSO, TV Freaks, The Victims, The Misfits, Swearin', Sans AIDS, Cleopatra and The Nile, Chevalier Avant Garde, The Void, Dick Dale, Golden Earring, and tons of low-bit classics!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_34_-_SEPT_16__2013.wav.mp3
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KETAMINES vs TOUGH AGE! Two bands face off about drugs, self-loathing, and bein' tough!

Hear tunes from Tough Age, Korean Gut, Ketamines, Viet Cong, Paul Jacobs, Pink Wine, King's Quest, F Hood, Soko, and Hoover Party!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-__EPISODE_33_-_SEP_9_2013.mp3.mp3
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COUSINS join us from their touring station wagon to talk about burritos across the world!

Hear songs from Cousins, Yussuf Jerusalem, Young Lions, Young Wasteners, The Backhomes, Bent Shapes, The Icarus Line, and Burro!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_32_-_SEPT_2_2013.mp3.mp3
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Ken Cheppaikode of DIRTNAP RECORDS joins us to talk about the label turning 14! Find out how much Ken weighed when he was 14, and how many fights he got into at Black Flag shows!

We play some favourite tunes from the Dirtnap back catalogue, and new and weird tunes from ALL OVER THE PLACE!

Hear songs from Marked Men, Mind Spiders, The Exploding Hearts, The Briefs, The White Wires, Steve Adamyk Band, Mean Jeans, Big Eyes, Night Birds, Ty Segall, Hsy, Mystics, Snooker Emporium, All Dogs, and Tennis!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_31_-_AUG_26_PT_1.mp3
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TIMMY VULGAR and co. of HUMAN EYE talk to us about Detroit, keepin' a record store ticking, and miserable suburban crusty punks!

Plus new songs from Canadian weirdos, Australian weirdos, and more!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_30_-_AUG_19_2013.mp3
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Designer turned rockstar MIKE KROL joins us to talk about buying fans, his signature sandwich, and his embarrassing ska past! We play a set of his killer pop songs, including a rare tape release! 

Plus a set of songs from bands played ARBORETUM FEST this weekend! 

Hear tunes from Mike Krol, Steve Adamyk Band, Sonic Avenues, Male Nurse, New Swears, Boyhood, Roberta Bondar, Mass, and Hunters!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_29_-__AUG_12_2013.mp3
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This week, Emmanuel interviews Ottawa’s AVERAGE TIMES! They tell  us about Shitty Dad wine, working at Shmal-Mart, and their upcoming tape on BRUISED TONGUE!

Plus a set of classic Ottawa tracks from GOING GAGA records, some lost classics from the 80s, and new weird sounds as usual!

Hear tunes from Average Times, Savage Crimes, Uranium Comeback, Fucking Machines, Million Dollar Marxists, Diane, Pop Crimes, Gas Rag, Bad Sports, Elton Motello, The Sound, Hüsker Dü, The Figs, Crystal Swells, and Cheap Time! 

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_28_-_AUG_5_2013.mp3
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Allie Hanlon AKA PEACH KELLI POP (and The White Wires!) joins us on the show to talk about why dog poop smells, how she'd party on mars, and how to bake the PERFECT BANANA BREAD! Listen up!

Plus, hear the most CRUSHING SET OF MUSIC EVER PLAYED ON RADIO! And some other tunes!

Hear songs from Peach Kelli Pop, Peach Kelli Punk, The White Wires, Red Kross, Mike Krol, Home Blitz, Cryptomaniacs, Predator, Whore Paint, Hunx and His Punx, Capital 6, and Gal Gracen!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_27_-_JULY_29_2013.mp3.mp3
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CITY SONGS! This week, a massive set of classic tunes about CITIES! From Kill City to Spook City USA.

Plus brand new weirdo and punk rock tunes from across Canada.

Hear tunes from Nick Lowe, The Parting Gifts, Rocket From The Crypt, The Spits, Sweet Janes, Insubordinates, The Only Ones, Tyvek, Hot Snakes, The Kids, The Misfits, The Modernettes, Bonnie Doon, Average Times, Aube, Microdot, Toronto Homicide Squad, Sad Boys, and White Poppy!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_26_-_JULY_22_2013.mp3
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Garage psych-os MONOMYTH tell us about their worst jobs, what’s playing in the van, and then trash talk every band from Halifax! 

We play all bands trashed by MONOMYTH, and put together sets to celebrate 25 years of Sub Pop! 

Hear tracks from Monomyth, Nap Eyes, Each Other, Old & Weird, Scratch Acid, Wipers, Sonic Youth, Crosss, Quaker Parents, Quivers, and Violence!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_25_-_JUL_15_2013.mp3.mp3
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We interview Adam and Tony of Vancouver’s NEEDLES//PINS! Things got a bit sloppy at Ottawa Explosion during this interview, and the guys discuss high school girlfriends, hobo tattoos, and hating Henry Rollins! 

Emmanuel and Travis play some excellent Vancouver punk, and a set of weirdo tunes to top things off! 

Plus songs from Needles//Pins, Strange Attractor, Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians, The Modernettes, Crabe, Whatever Brains, Dead Ghosts, Cherry Bones, Mikal Cronin, The Thermals, and Ovlov!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_24-_JUL_8_2013.mp3.mp3
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Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs interview US while we interview THEM! Hear the madness, including talk of Rob Ford, tin foil hats, and shawarma! 

Sam interviews Emmanuel and Travis for his radio show PART OF THE NOISE, and we tell a story about Paul Lawton (The Ketamines) almost dying on the radio!

PLUS, a preview of next week's drunk interview with NEEDLES//PINS!

Hear tracks from Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs, Hooded Fang, Contingent, Zen Mystery Fogg, Shannon and The Clams, Warm Soda, UN, Vampires, and Manipulation!

Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_23_-_JUN_24_2013.mp3
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