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

The great CITY SLANG puke off!

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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 and The Dumpers - 7" - Too Much Slime
Black Lips - Let It Bloom - Punk Slime

Originally aired on September 16, 2015

#PUNKSNOTREAD

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Emmanuel and Travis talk about our new reading initiative, #punksnotread! Emmanuel feels obligated to read Dune! We discuss Sting! Use the hashtag on Instagram to share what you read this summer.

Plus tons of new tunes, featuring CITY SLANG favourites and past guests including MIKE KROL, LOWER, and ABSOLUTELY FREE!

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
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


Originally aired September 9, 2015

COLLEEN GREEN live in studio!

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This week on the show, COLLEEN GREEN joins us live! Colleen plays some new tunes live in studio, and chats with Emmanuel about touring, Conan O'Brien, and starring on the stupidest TV shows imaginable!

Plus a set of LA punk, music from BERSERKTOWN, and new tunes! Hear these songs:

Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up - I Want To Grow Up - 3:15
Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up - Some People - 3:30
Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up - TV - 3:26
Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up - Whatever I Want

X - X - Los Angeles
Descendents - I Don’t Want To Grow Up - I Don’t Want To Grow Up
Black Flag - Damaged - TV Party

Royal Headache - High - Little Star - 2:31
Diat - Positive Energy - Toonie
The Stops - Nameless Faces - So Still
Mercury Girls - Demo - In Your Hands
Babysitter - Babysitter - Hard Times
Hag Face - R.I.P. - Baby Doomers
Crystal Eyes -No Man Is An Island - Here She Comes
Towanda - Black Sheep EP - Slacker

Originally aired August 26, 2015

BERSERKTOWN II and COMPILATION MANIA!

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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
HSY -Bask - Scratch
Milk Teeth - Sad Sack - Melon Blade

Pretty Girls - Destroy All Art compilation - The Kids are All Fucked
I’m Gonna Stab You - Destroy All Art compilation - The Slide
Several Species - Destroy All Art compilation - Fight

Tesco Bombers - Now That’s What I Call DIY - Break The Ice At Parties
Fatal Microbes - Now That’s What I Call DIY - Violence Grows
The Fakes - Now That’s What I Call DIY - Look Out

Tony Molina - Dissed & Dismissed - Change My Ways
Total Control - Typical System - Expensive Dog
Milk Music - Beyond Living - Beyond Living
Wax Idols - Schadenfreude 7" - The Last Drop
Juanita y Los Feos - Nueva Numancia - Vallecas

Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power - Doctor
Vacation - Non-Person - Decaying
Downtown Boys - Full Communism - Monstro

Originally aired on August 5, 2015.

DIRTY FRIGS vs HOMEBODY!

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Denver’s HOMEBODY and Toronto’s DIRTY FRIGS are slammed together for no good reason into an epic CITY SLANG questionnaire! Find out who used to sing in a bad country band, thrill to curse words, and hear an interview veer out of control!

Plus hear new tunes, a tape feature on TYE DYE TAPES! Hear these songs:

Dirty Frigs - Dirty Frigs - Osiris
Homebody - EP 01 - Embroidery
Dirty Frigs - Dirty Frigs/Spectre split - Smokes You Must
Homebody - Skin and Let Live - Hollow Nest
Dirty Frigs - Dirty Frigs - Swampy
Homebody - Skin and Let Live - Permanent Accompanist

Ursula - Demo - Relief
Sealings - I’m a Bastard - White Devil
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - Why Does it Shake?
Royal Headache - High - Another World

Arm Candy - Arm Candy - Tribute
Radical Boy - Radical Boy/Pjaro split - Summer Resort
Feature - Culture of the Copy - Twins

Kappa Chow - Collection - Bang Bang

Originally aired July 29, 2015

CHASTITY BELT!

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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


Fist City - Everything Is a Mess - Hey Little Sister
Pinner - #2 Demo - Island Song
Bantam Wing - Oh Hi No. 1 Compilation - You Keep Going On

Negative Scanner - Negative Scanner - Would You Rather?

Originally aired July 15, 2015

GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH!

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Travis puts GUANTANAMO 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

Originally aired July 8, 2015

All new tunes, all hour!

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We mark the end of our summer hiatus with an ALL MUSIC episode featuring brand new tunes from some of our favourites including TOUGH AGE, MICK FUTURES, and more!

Hear these tracks:

Tough Age - I Get The Feeling Central - Snakes & Ladders
Bonnie Doon  -  An Affair to Remember - Messy Clean
Catholic Girls -  Psychic Woman - Tokyo
Fountain  -  Fountain 2  - Landline
Mick Futures - Banned  From The Future  - Mini Mag
Crosss - Lo - Golden Hearth
Ceremony - The L Shaped Man - The Party
Metz - Metz II - Spit You Out
Swervedriver  -  I Wasn’t Born To Lose You -Last Rites
Power Buddies - Power Buddies - Fail
Notta Comet - Success With Houseplants - Paradoxical Undressing
Peach Kelli Pop - III - Plastic Love
Ponctuation - La Realité nous suffit - Meteo
Radiation Flowers - Powder Blue II - Feel It
Scattered Clouds - The First Empire - People Walk

RHYTHM OF CRUELTY!

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We’ve got Edmonton post-punk goths RHYTHM OF CRUELTY on all episode! They talk to us after a house show about the wildest tapes in their car, green onion cakes, American snacks, and more!

Plus they pick out sets based on the best show of their tour, and classic Edmonton bands, and their favourite tour cassettes!

Hear these tunes:

Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - Day In, Day Out
Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - Saturated
Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - Explosions
Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - In The Daylight
Rhythm of Cruelty - Saturated - Full Circle

Strangled - Body Bag - Fast Motion
Zebra Pulse - ENDINGS - Toilet Scherzo
Energetic Action - Wounds
No Problem - Kid Killer - Eyes of ISIS

DYE - Demo - You Got It
Hidden Ritual - Deep Secret Vol. 3 - Dusty Dagger
Institute - Salt EP - Salt

Phantom Head - Let The Miracles Begin - Terror and Torture
Marie Davidson - Un Autre Voyage - Balade Aux USA
Severed Heads - City Slab Horror - Cracking On Rough

Will our hosts make it to the studio in time?!

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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

Originally aired May 13, 2015

NERVOUS TALK vs TOUGH AGE and FIST CITY in a quiz-show face off!

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This week: 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

Originally aired May 4, 2015

Season finale! New timeslot, same killer tunes!

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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

Originally aired April 27, 2015