NAP EYES VS. MONOMYTH!

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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

EMMANUEL AND TRAVIS REUNITE TO PLAY UK THRASHERS AND NEW TUNES!

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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! 

Tunes this week:

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

ANAMAI AND TUNES, TUNES, TUNES!

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Alanna and Travis run rampant in the studio, and discover soothing jazz bed music! SMOOTH!

Alanna interviews ANAMAI, the solo moniker of Anna from HSY, and we feature new Buzz Records singles!

Plus a sneak peak at some DJ sets the CITY SLANG crew will be doing this week! Get out there!

Hear these tunes:

So Cow - The Long Con - Get Down Off Of That Thing

Total Control - Typical System - 2 Less Jacks

SGNLS - II - Love Go’s Running

The Effects - Blister single - Blister

Young Governor - Bloodstains Across Ontario - I Wanna Girl From Wawa

Pointed Sticks - Waiting For The Real Thing - Out of Luck

Old and Weird - Kraft Singles - Minstrel Rock

Boyhood - Boyhood EP - Heat

Beta/Mai - Single - Never Enough

Dilly Dally - Single - Candy Mountain

B-Girls - Who Says Girls Can’t Rock? - Who Says Girls Can’t Rock

Tweens - Tweens - Hardcore Boy

Wand - Ganglion Reef - Fire On The Mountain (I–II–III)

CHAD VANGAALEN!

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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 PREOCCUPATIONS 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

RUBBER BROTHER RECORDS!

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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
Chloroform - 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

ZAKARY SLAX!

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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

SHEER AGONY!

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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

Bonnie Doon!

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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

Preoccupations/Mac DeMarco (UPDATED)

(Note: This post was originally included Preoccupations former band name. We're pleased to make the correction. For more information, read this open letter to the band by Jon McCurley from before they changed their name.)

(Note: We were made aware of this disturbing story about Mac DeMarco after our interview. We've taken the episode down and won't be having DeMarco on our show again. CITY SLANG believes music scenes should be safe spaces for everyone, and we have zero tolerance for harassment or assault.)

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PREOCCUPATIONS takes a break from massaging each other to discuss near homicide, street fights, and Chad Vangaalen’s driving!

Beloved Canadian weirdo MAC DEMARCO takes the CITY SLANG questionnaire and shares his sordid history with Tommy Lee!

PLUS A CITY SLANG EXCLUSIVE!

Check out a video below of an unreleased PREOCCUPATIONS song shot at their Ottawa show! You were probably there!

Tunes this week:

Preoccupations - Cassette - Throw It Away

Preoccupations - Cassette - Unconscious Melody

Preoccupations - Cassette - Oxygen Feed

Preoccupations - Unreleased - Bunker Buster

Pretty Pretty - Leather Weather - Leather Weather

Hurula - Vi är människorna våra föräldrar varnade oss för - Om jag tänker alls

Roberta Bondar - Caustic - Wet Eyes

The Estranged - Languid Skies - If Everything

Steve Adamyk Band - Dial Tone - Suicide

The Sugar Stems - Only Come Out At Night - Baby Teeth

VIET CONG! MAC DEMARCO!

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