Viet Cong and Mac DeMarco on the show this week! Tune in Monday at 9am to hear it live on CHUO 98.1FM, or stream it live online.
Here’s a preview to get you pumped!
STRANGE ATTRACTOR! MOTHER'S CHILDREN!
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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
OTTAWA EXPLOSION BLOWOUT WITH TWEENS, VACATION, AND KING'S QUEST!
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It’s the conclusion of our OTTAWA EXPLOSION BLOWOUT! We subject more people to the hard-hitting CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE!
Bridget 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!
Plus hear these tunes:
Tweens - S/T LP - Be Mean
Kings Quest - S/T - Alexander
Vacation - Candy Waves - Pyro Hippies
HSY - Cyber Bully - Cyber Bully
The Beverleys - The Beverleys - Dreams
Mexican Slang - Inside The Velvet Castle - Pink Fog
Greys - If Anything - Use Your Delusion
Pink Mountaintops - Get Back - The Second Summer of Love
Tijuana Panthers - Wayne Interest - Torpedo
Watery Love - Decorative Feeding - Skulls in Zen
Ultrathin - Minimum Payout EP - Walk Into the Void
Teledrome - S/T LP - New Motion
OTTAWA EXPLOSION BLOWOUT WITH TV FREAKS, DAD JOKES, AND BONNIE DOON!
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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!!
Tunes this week:
TV Freaks - Leeches 7” - Leeches
Bonnie Doon - V/A Afterburners Vol. 4 - Pizza Shark
Dad Jokes - J.C.V.D. - J.C.V.D.
Protomartyr - Under Cover of Official Right - Maidenhead
Blue Angel - Demo - Don’t Want Need To
Sonic Avenues - Mistakes - In Your Head
Zex - Savage City 7” - Savage City
Nubians - V/A Afterburners Vol. 4 - 7 & 7 is
Organ Eyes - V/A Afterburners Vol. 4 - Sunny Day Jaguar
Meck - V/A Afterburners Vol. 4 - Kelly Rippa
Astral Gunk - V/A Afterburners Vol. 4 - Antilove
The Machine of IX - V/A Afterburners Vol. 4
ALL OTTAWA EXPLOSION SPECIAL!
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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
THE AHS!
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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
ABSOLUTELY FREE!
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Matt of ABSOLUTELY FREE joins us 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 SURGERY, HERONS 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
Ex-Cult - Midnight Passenger - Midnight Passenger
Chad Vangaalen - Shrink Dust - Frozen Paradise
Swans - To Be Kind - Screen Shot
NO ALOHA!
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(Listeners: We interviewed this band when they were called SHE’S. They changed their name to NO ALOHA. Don’t freak out when we call them SHE’S the whole episode!)
Montreal’s SHE’S NO ALOHA are a new band with way too many good songs. We interviewed them about surviving cross-country bus trips, Dad rock, nearly dying, and esoteric Victoria knowledge!
Plus our weekly tape feature, Emmanuel goes global, and more tunes including:
No Aloha - Split - Kim Kimono
No Aloha - EP - Don’t Wanna Go To Work
No Aloha - Split - Drop Dead
No Aloha - EP - My Baby K
No Aloha - 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
HOSEHEAD RECORDS! FIRST BASE!
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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
A REFERENCE OF FEMALE-FRONTED PUNK!
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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
THE YIPS LIVE IN STUDIO!
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Three fifths of THE YIPS join us in studio and play some choice tunes and share some STONE-COLD LAFFS! We talk to them about the their spooky pal Rave Ghost, Skrillex’s influence, and their past as CHILD GOLF PRODIGIES!
Plus 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
THE CITY SLANG LIVE EPISODE FEATURING EVERYONE!
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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 DOON! And MORE, MORE MORE!
Hear these tunes:
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 - Running Back
Needles//Pins - 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
WANNA PARTY WITH CITY SLANG?! Come out to our LIVE EPISODE recording tonight at Raw Sugar! More info here.
And bring some donation money for CHUO, why don'cha! See the crazy stuff you can get by donating to community radio right here.
SHILLING SEASON FEATURING YOUR FAVOURITE TUNES!
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Donation season! That means we talk big talk, give out loads of prizes, play crazy tunes, and give you a bonus St. Paddy’s day set! GET ON IT! It’s not to late to donate to CHUO and support indie radio! More details here.
We play these tunes:
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
Rudi - 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
Average Times - EP - Summer Nights
Black Walls - Communion - Communion
THE BEVERLEYS TALKIN' ABSOLUTE FILTH!
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THE BEVERLEYS get 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’s funding drive season! Keep good shit like our show on the air! Click here for more info and to donate! Lotsa cool incentives!
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
SHILLING SEASON! SUPPORT LOCAL RADIO!
It’s funding drive time over at our headquarters, CHUO-fm89.1! Help CITY SLANG raise our goal of $300!
Listen to the show LIVE TONIGHT for giveaways, and call in to donate! Donate online by emailing us at donation@chuo.fm.
Donate the following amounts and get OFF THE HOOK incentives.
$25 - Friend of CHUO card! Gets you mega discounts at killer shops like these!
$30 - CHUO bottle opener/key chain (this thing comes in handy) PLUS the Friend of CHUO card, AND THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE MUCH ANTICIPATED CITY SLANG ZINE!
$60 - Entry into two grand prize draws! (one entry into National Arts Centre draw PLUS one entry for Beau’s Natural Brewing Co. draw), a CHUO t-shirt, a CHUO bottle opener/key chain, the Friend of CHUO card, the CITY SLANG ZINE, and The Famines' Raymond Biesinger’s book of Black & White illustrations!
$120 - Entry into FOUR grand prize draws! (1 entry National Arts Centre draw PLUS one entry for Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co. draw PLUS one entry into Black Sheep Inn draw PLUS one entry into Via Rail draw!), a CHUO t-shirt, a CHUO bottle opener/key chain, a Friend of CHUO card, and the CITY SLANG ZINE, and The Famines' Raymond Biesinger's book of Black & White illustrations!!
Grand Prize draws!
National Arts Centre draw ($750 value)
One voucher (admission for two) for each of the following months in 2014: May, June, September, October & November!
Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co. draw ($350 value)
Delivery of one case of four bottles to your home every month! Starts in May 2014, ends until April 2015.
Black Sheep Inn draw ($400 value)
2014 Season Pass that gives you access to every concert for the rest of 2014!
Via Rail draw ($1200 value)
Four return tickets from Ottawa to Quebec City!
You can get more info at CHUO!
PAUL JACOBS!
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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
NEW TUNES, PLUS TAPES, TAPES, TAPES!
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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
ODONIS ODONIS!
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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
BRUISED TONGUE CRASHES OUR SHOW!
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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