PLASMALAB and THE DREARIES!

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We're back from summer break with a double-stuffed episode!

This week, we catch up with THE DREARIES and PLASMALAB during the Ottawa Explosion festival!

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

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

We play these songs:

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

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

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

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

Originally aired Sept 8, 2016

GUN OUTFIT!

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This week we interview GUN OUTFIT! We discuss the delicate art of dealing with kids at art galleries, the unglamorous life of Hollywood extras, and we try to determine the best driving music! Turns out, it's easier to find the worst driving music.

Plus, the band picks a set of sun-drenched country and folk gems! We play these tunes:

Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - Another Lifeform
Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - Last Light
Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - Pleasure Seeker
Gun Outfit - Dim Light - Work Experience
Gun Outfit - Dim Light - Troubles Like Mine
Gun Outfit - Dim Light - Guilt and Regret
Gun Outfit - Winner’s Circle - The Party in Context

JJ Cale - Troubador - You Got Something
Linda Hargrove - Love, You're the Teacher - All Alone in Austin
Silly Sisters - Silly Sisters - Silver Whistle

Originally aired June 29, 2016

PROTOMARTYR

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This week on the show, we interviewed Joe Casey, frontman of vicious Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr. We talk about the worst hypnotists, the best bad-movie-based pinball games, bathroom strategies on tour, and the one job where he could have been easily replaced by a block of wood.

Plus we play these tunes

Protomartyr - Under Colour of Official Right - Scum, Rise!
Protomartyr - 7” - The Milk Drinkers
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - The Devil in his Youth
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Cowards Starve
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Pontiac 87
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Why Does It Shake?
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Uncle Mother’s

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

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

Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - Day In, Day Out
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic - Between Planets

Originally aired May 18, 2016

TOUGH AGE!

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This week on the show, we interview Jarrett of bubblegum punk band TOUGH AGE! Jarrett gives listeners a primer on post-modern SNES game Earthbound, a passionate defense of Disneyland, and names the many movies Tough Age posters have showed up in! Hint: the movies have featured Sylvester Stallone and Larry the Cable guy.

Plus, we play these tunes:

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

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

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

Originally aired May 4, 2016

CHANDRA!

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

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

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Originally aired April 20, 2016

Correction: In the interview, Chandra speculates it was Richard Linklater who nearly made a Chandra documentary for SNL--it was in fact director Jonathan Demme.

THE MEMBRANES!

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JOHN ROBB, punk legend, noise pioneer, music writer, and member of THE MEMBRANES and GOLDBLADE joins us on the show this week from the UK! We talk about underrated women in punk history, taking over the towers of the world, and why punk bands should pay more attention in science class!

Plus we play tracks from the latest MEMBRANES album, the heaviest of their career!

Originally published March 23, 2016

DIÄT!

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DIÄT join us from Germany! The self-described squares talk to us about reverse-psychology policing, the horrors of the suburbs, rolling around in shit on tour, and more!

Plus, we play these tracks:

Diat - Positive Energy - Young & Successful
Diat - Positive Energy - Nightmares
Diat - Positive Energy - Toonie
Diat - Positive Energy - Nausea
Diat - Positive Energy - Hurricane

Originally aired March 16, 2016

JUICE BOX!

Gwen and Kerry of Calgary’s JUICE BOX join us to take the CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE! We learn about gopher museums, commemorative pope plates, alternative uses for sex swings. Plus we find out the pitfalls of an iPad-based live show, and and add another story to the archives about cleaning up human waste.

We play these songs:

Juicebox - Tetra Pak - IDK // IDC
Juicebox - Tetra Pak - Conspiracy
Juicebox - Tetra Pak - Straight White Boys Texting
Juicebox - Tetra Pak - Rat Therapy
Juicebox - Tetra Pak - 2 Stars on Amazon
Juicebox - Tetra Pak - Champagne Problem

Originally aired March 2, 2016

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY!

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Chicago's DAYLIGHT ROBBERY joins us this week! 

We talk to Christine, David, and Jeff 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
Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Goon Beat
Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - New Threat
Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Telegraphing
Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Walk Away

Originally aired Feb. 24, 2016

REST OF THE BEST featuring MIKE KROL, DILLY DALLY, CENTURY PALM, POP 1280, and PAVILION!

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CITY SLANG presents REST OF THE BEST featuring the best clips that never made the air! This episode includes our favourite interview clips that were too weird, dirty, or incomprehensible to make the show the first time around. Get ready to hear:

• 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 making fun of punks and fantasizing about the Gattica-verse!

Originally aired Feb. 10, 2016

POP. 1280!

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This week on the show, we speak with Chris Bug and 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.

We play these tracks:

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

Originally aired January 27, 2015

FREAK HEAT WAVES!

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This week on the show, we interviewed Steve 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 favourite horror and sci0fi flicks. PLUS we help spread the myth of a legendary Freak Heat Waves on-stage incident that may or may not involve human waste!

We play these songs:

Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie’s State of Mind - A Civil Servant
Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie’s State of Mind - Melt In Your Home
Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie’s State of Mind - China Blue
Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie’s State of Mind - Design of Success
Freak Heat Waves - Bonnie’s State of Mind - Dig A Hole
John Cooper Clarke - Disguise in Love - Post-War Glamour Girl

Originally aired January 14, 2016

PAVILION!

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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 losing band names, eating fast food, and even though 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
Pavilion - Mercury Girls Demo - Beautiful Sight
Pavilion - Mercury Girls Demo - Pale Shades of Green
Pavilion - Mercury Girls Demo - Binds
Pavilion - Single - Hyacinth
Pavilion - Single - Vexation of Spirit

Originally aired Dec. 23, 2015

SOUPCANS!

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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:

Soupcans - Soft Party - Crimes 1
Soupcans - Soft Party - Nice Nife
Soupcans - Soft Party - Dish Pig
Soupcans - Soft Party - Razor Face
Soupcans - Soft Party - Siamese Brutality
Soupcans - Soft Party - Psychosomatic Rash
Soupcans - Soft Party - DOB
Soupcans - Soft Party - Hairicide
Soupcans - Soft Party - Soft Party

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

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

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

Originally aired Dec. 16, 2015

TV FREAKS return!

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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! We play these tunes:

TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms - Glue
TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms -Done It Again
TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms -Thirteen
TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms -Pick My Brain
TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms -Ebb & Flow
TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms -Love Fade
TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms -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

Originally aired Dec. 2, 2015

LESS TALK MORE SYNTHESIZER FREAKOUT!

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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

Originally aired Nov. 25, 2015.

CENTURY PALM!

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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 bands playing the Not Dead Yet fest.

BONUS!

The next person to donate $50 to the CHUO funding drive is gonna receive the following:

1. CITY SLANG shirt
2. A rare remaining copy of the CITY SLANG zine
3. TV Freaks 7"
4. Century Palm 7"

Email cityslangradio@gmail.com to get in on the action and support our mother staion!

MIKE KROL returns!

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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 buying a CITY SLANG t-shirt or checking out one of these killer shows featuring The Famines, Century Palm, and Shell Shag!

We play these tunes:

Mike Krol - Turkey - Suburban Wasteland
Mike Krol - Turkey - Neighbourhood Watch
Mike Krol - Turkey - Left Out (ATTN: SoCal Garage Rockers)Mike
Mike Krol - Turkey - Save The Date
Mike Krol - Turkey - This Is The News
Mike Krol - Turkey - La La La
Mike Krol - Turkey - Cactuses
Mike Krol - Turkey - Less Than Together

Century Palm - 7" - Valley Cyan
Creep Wave - Demo - Sick Note
Faux Cults - Caviar EP - Love Song
The Famines - Too Cool & Other Songs - Hail To The Taxman

Big Dick - S/T - Colours
TV Freaks - II - Game
Cold Warps - Tour Demo - Black Oil
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Time To Go Home

Originally aired October 14, 2015

DILLY DALLY!

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Katie of DILLY DALLY talks to us about good tattoos, great karaoke playlists, and the grossest part about being a swamp 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

HEAVEN FOR REAL vs OLD AND WEIRD

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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