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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!
And subscribe to our effing iTunes already!
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!
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, nerds!
Didja miss us?! CITY SLANG returns tonight! Listen in for our PINS//NEEDLES interview and tons of tunes!
Tune in from 9-10pm on CHUO. Stream it online here.
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!
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Originally aired: June 24 2013.
No new show this week! CITY SLANG is on vacation!
In the mean time, check out the Ottawa Explosion festival, where friends of CITY SLANG will be partying all week long.
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And check out PART OF THE NOISE, a new punk-rock podcast from our Hosehead records brothers!
Everyone’s been partying too hard, so Travis plays a soft-rock show! ALL SOFT, ALL HOUR!
Plus an Iceage ticket giveaway that is sadly no longer valid! But thanks for entering!
Hear soft tunes from Jonathan Richman, Nick Lowe, The Men, Kurt Vile, Feel Alright, Old and Weird, Cousins, Makeout Videotape, Sean Nicholas Savage, Outdoor Miners, Sans AIDS, The Nerves, and The Sonics!
Stay tuned until the end for the return of the softest of all softies, LEWIS!
Raymond of THE FAMINES returns to teach us about Soviet Russian art and what it would be like to paint with Stephen Harper!
Plus a summer preview of upcoming bands playin’ LIVE, LIVE, LIVE, Including Ottawa Explosion!
Hear tracks from Iceage, Vacation, Yellowteeth, Bill Orcutt, Tropical Dripps, The Yips, Black Tower, Mac DeMarco, Psyche Tongues, Holograms, The Mark Inside, The Sound, and Pure X!
And subscribe on iTunes if you don’t wanna miss a thing.
Paul of Halifax garage weirdos COLD WARPS talks about getting stupid tattoos and drinking Yoo-hoo!
In the second half of the show, Travis subjects Paul to a BRUTAL X-FILES quiz!
Plus, we play tracks from CROSSS, Krang, Wolf Cow, Surf City, Astral Gunk, Feral Trash, and Thalidomy Kids!
Don’t be a dork, subscribe on iTunes!
Caylie of the great BOYHOOD joins us in studio to talk about barfing on the highway, haunted rock shows, and her number-one-fan, Constantine!
We play our favorite EARTHQUAKE songs to celebrate Ottawa’s recent earthquake!
Plus tunes from Francois Hardy, Earth Quake, Little Girls, The Skunks, Anasazi, Coliseum, Mikal Cronin, and Slam Dunk!
Paul Lawton of THE KETAMINES talks to us about mutating his band into the ZEBRASSIERS, his SLAGGING OFF blog, and how CITY SLANG should get itself into online trouble!
Plus, hear tracks from Zebrassieres, Chains of Love, Milk Music, No Joy, Purling Hiss, WTCHS, Shaker Hymns, JLK & Babysitter, and King Kahn!
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BEN JENSEN of WAY BAD and STANDARD ISSUE zine joins us in studio to talk about being a super famous artist!
We interview Ian Thompson of LTW, Human Shield, Deal Breaker, and the CRICKET CEMETERY label! We talk about the punkest monuments in DC, and spending time with your Dad!
Plus tunes from Trauma, Dinos Boys, Manipulation, Bloody Gears, Human Shield, Thick Skin, The Shirks, and Homeshake!
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Travis returns to play tunes from Washington, DC labels WINDAN and CRICKET CEMETERY!
Travis and Emmanuel suffer through their lame health problems to bring you hardcore sets and new releases!
Hear tunes from Static Eyes, LTW, State Violence, The Bam Bams, S.H.I.T., Kremlin, Hassler, School Jerks, Bad Skin, Valley Boys, Valley Girls, The Squids, Heaven For Real, Astral Gunk, Kurt Vile, Thee Oh Sees, Bleached, Psychic Ills.
And don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes!
WE’VE GOT TWINS! Emmanuel plays a show full of songs with the same title! Which ones are better?!
Travis was lame and went to Washington instead of hosting!
Hear tunes from Descendents, Bad Brains, Regulations, Articles of Faith, Husker Du, Guns N’ Wankers, Snuff, Male Nurse, Million Dollar Marxists, Blitz, Cockney Rejects, Oblivians, Wax Idols, People’s Temple, Popstrangers, Aaron Read, Colleen Green, and Statues!
The great METZ talk to us about shit talk, phone robbery, and bad sandwiches! We play some classics from METZ 7"s.
Then Raymond from THE FAMINES joins us once again for his monthly history lesson! This month, he drops RUSSIAN TATTOOS on our heads!
Plus tunes from The Fuzz, Thee Nodes, Systematik, The Famines, Timmy’s Organism, Lost Sounds, Solid Attitude, The Courtneys, Golden Grrrls, Dyscontrol, and F Hood!
PLUS: don’t forget to subscribe to CITY SLANG on iTunes!
In honour of the 8th Ottawa Community Record Show, Emmanuel and Travis dug through their records to spin nothin’ but Ottawa gems, lost classics, and plain trash on vinyl!
Hear tunes from Uranus, Shotmaker, Sick Fits, Outdoor Miners, Women, Jonathan Richman, Honest Injun, Trapt, Yeah Yeah Noh, Walking Cliché, The Membranes, Krang, Holy Cobras, and more!
And subscribe on iTunes by clickin' here. OR ELSE!
SHEARING PINX member and ISOLATED NOW WAVES label overlord Nic Hughes talks to us about releasing tapes, Eric’s Trip, and naked weed whacking!
We play a whole set of tunes from his label, including Pompoir, Shearing Pinx, Nun Un, Tranquil Heat, Noisy Tits, and Mormon Crosses.
Plus tunes from Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin, Useless Eaters, Grape Soda, Needs, Milk Music, and Sean Nicholas Savage!
Jared and Johanna of THE NYMPHETS and LAURA magazine tell us about playing video games with crust punks, Twin Peaks, and their Canadian Netflix recommendations!
We give away a PISSED JEANS LP! Contest is still open, email cityslangradio@gmail.com to win!
Plus tracks from Pissed Jeans, Nymphets, Yellow Teeth, Wastoids, Leven Signs, Cindy Lee, Blitz, Cock Sparrer, Sham 69, and Bad Brains.
Footage of the Nymphets in Ottawa on April, 2012.
Friends of CITY SLANG and killer music blog Weird Canada asked us for a guest post. So we took the obvious route and recorded an unsolicited commentary track for a music video we had nothing to do with.
Travis shares his thoughts on Ottawa band New Swears and CITY SLANG recorded a commentary for their killer one-take music video for Paradise.
Read the post and listen to the audio commentary on Weird Canada right here.
The charming gang from Ottawa’s ROBERTA BONDAR joins us in studio to share stories of CRIME! Hilarity ensues! Plus, we’re in funding drive, so don’t forget to contact us at cityslangradio@gmail.com for info on donating to CHUO community radio!
Tyler and Alex of ROBERTA BONDAR join us in studio! We talk about getting jumped by SWAT teams, getting cattle prodded, and the origins of Roberta Bondar’s new video/song Night Danger!
We play songs from Roberta Bondar’s new tape, and Lidija calls in to share a story about returning to the scene of the crime!
Plus songs from The Yips, Teenanger, Colleen Green, False Face, Mount Eerie, and Rhythm of Cruelty.
Originally aired: March 18 2013.
Roberta Bondar’s Tyler, as he appeared in CBC coverage of his cattle prodding.
Listen to the rest of New Swears live in studio on Episode 8!
It’s funding drive week! If you wanna keep seeing killer content like this, donate to CHUO community radio and keep us on the air! Email cityslangradio@gmail.com, or phone into CHUO at 613-562-5968.
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