LIVE from the Record Centre!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

This week: an all-vinyl music episode, recorded LIVE from the Record Centre in Ottawa! This episode is to celebrate FUNDING DRIVE WEEK for our mother station CHUO. For more info on how to donate, check out this page. And for killer tunes, listen on!

We play these records:

Hawkwind - Single - Silver Machine
Bauhaus - Single - Dark Entries

Our Daughter's Wedding- Single - Lawnchairs
Delta 5 - Single - Mind Your Own Business

Siouxie & the Banshees - Single - Happy House
Depeche Mode - Single - Shake The Disease
Devo - Single - Are U X-Perienced?

The Tourists - Single - I Only Want To Be With You
Lori and the Chameleons - Single - Touch

Joy Division - Single - These Days
TV Smith's Explorers - Single - The Perfect Life

The Jam - Single - Strange Town
The Undertones - Single - You've Got My Number

X-Ray Spex - Single - Oh Bondage Up Yours!
The Stranglers - Single - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)

Originally aired October 19, 2016

SUPPORT CITY SLANG AND CHUO!

CHUO is our mother station, a community radio station in Ottawa that allows us to make our show. We literally wouldn't exist without them. Once a year, the station asks for support to keep the lights on and let cool shows like CITY SLANG and a huge, diverse schedule of amazing shows keep doing what they do.

So if you like CITY SLANG, donate to CHUO to keep us running. Thanks for your support!

---

All the ways to donate can be found here.

You can also donate by buying cool incentives from the store.

We recommend the CITY SLANG shirt, or the sweet pin pictured above!

---

Make sure you specific "CITY SLANG" as your donation so we can keep track of our supporters!

CITY SLANG: At the Gallery with BEN JENSEN and IMOGEN REID!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

Welcome to CITY SLANG: At the Gallery, a fine arts and culture show hosted by Emmanuel and Travis (not affiliated with Emmanuel and Travis of CITY SLANG).

This week, illustrator Ben Jensen and photographer Imogen Reid join us live from the opening of their art show opening at the Ottawa Art Gallery!

We discuss skeleton skateboarders, the Hieronymus Bosch of punk photos, and take a tour of the new exhibit.

We play these tunes:

Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - Go Home - It’s Hard on the Street
Peach Kelli Pop - Halloween Mask 7” - Hundred Dollar Bill
Sadist - 7” - Mask
Secta - Secta Suicidia EP - Ya Nada Importa
Eel - Tape - Low Life
New Swears - Funny Isn’t Real - Paradise
Pregnancy Scares - 7” - Master Race

Sweet Williams - Please Let Me Sleep on Your Tonight - Ghost Waves
Peeling - Rats in Paradise EP - Leisure Life
Marching Church - Telling it Like it is - Heart of Life

M.T. Foyer - Single - All I Wanna Do is Love You
No Aloha - Deluxe - Shoulda Woulda Coulda
Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland - Carry On

Originally aired October 12, 2016

Local music spotlight!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

All Ottawa, all hour! We've been around the world this summer. Now that CITY SLANG is back home, we decided to spotlight some of our favourite local music from the year.

We play:

Average Times - S/T - Dirty Laundry
BB Cream - S/T - Do U Wanna
Creep Wave - Winter Sucks - Cat Call
Bonnie Doon - Single - Now or Neverish
Expandafuzz - Bleuets - The Disco Sounds of Roof Rack

Piith - Sweet Sweet Morning - Sunrise
Heavy Bedroom - Heavy Bedroom/King’s Quest split - Soft Pillow of Doubt
Heron's Wake - Phantom - Beast

Doxx - S/T - Slimer
Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland - Carry On
Warp Lines - Demo - Waited Long Enough
The Heavy Medicine Band - Conduit - Sleep Light

Telecomo - Promo EP - Around
Elementals - I’m Not Here, I’m Not Real - Debase
The Yips - Got Power/Want Some - Saturn Devours His Young

Ruth Grader - Forms EP - 904

Originally aired Oct 5, 2016

UN BLONDE!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

This week on the show, we fend off late-night hooligans to talk to the great UN BLONDE!

Otherwise known as Jean-Sebastien Audet, we discover the wisdom of watching and learning from reality shows, a psychological deconstruction of Kanye West, and the long-term harm of living under the stairs.

Plus, we play an all-Egg Paper Factory set and these tunes:

Un Blonde - Good Will Come to You - Celebration
Un Blonde - Good Will Come to You - Open Sesame
Un Blonde - Good Will Come to You - I Felt the Evening Come Through the Window
Un Blonde - Good Will Come to You - Staying in Line
Un Blonde - Good Will Come to You - In Harmony
Un Blonde - Good Will Come to You - Heart of the Afternoon

Whitney K - Pony - Pony
Telstar Drugs - Endless Strait EP - Pressed
KoKo - Clean Livin - She's Gone
The Painters - Specks of Dust - On the Ceiling
Hana Vave - 1992 - The Expedition

TV Freaks - Two - Overreacting

Originally aired September 28, 2016

JAY ARNER and JESSICA DELISLE!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

This week we catch up with JAY ARNER and JESSICA DELISLE of Jay Arner, Energy Slime, Retail Nightmares, and more! We discuss soundtracking Metal Gear Solid, turning down corporate sugar beverage Slurpee, the cosmic vibes of the grand canyon, and a snafu at a Blim Blorton's!

Plus we play these tunes:

Jay Arner - Jay II - Like a Dracula
Energy Slime - New Dimensional - Cool Ship II
Jay Arner - Jay II - Street Freaks
Energy Slime - New Dimensional - Bustin’ Up
Jay Arner - Jay II - Personal Line
Jay Arner - Jay II - World of Suffering
Jay Arner - Jay II - Crystal Ball

Tenement - S/T - Your Shadowed Alleys
Rixe - Les Nerfs à Vif - Hexagone
Vexx - Wild Hunt - Do What You Want To

Supermoon - Playland - Witching Hour
Tough Age - Tough Age - Coffin Foam
Renny Wilson - Punk Explosion - Glass Animal
Our Debut Album - Our Debut Album - Ice Hotel

Nots - Single - Inherently Low
The Submissives - Do You Really Love Me? - Do You Really Love Me?
Spray Paint - Feel The Clamps - Styrofoam Garbage

Originally aired September 21, 2016

SNEAKS and PIPPA!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

This week on the show, we put SNEAKS and Ottawa's own PIPPA through the CITY SLANG questionnaire!

Sneaks shares the greatest first rock show in CITY SLANG history, and we get to the bottom of what exactly makes a swear word. Then learn about Pippa's dangerous Simpsons-themed Halloween costume, cosmic thrift-store finds, Avril Lavigne deep-cuts, and more.

Plus we play these tunes:

Sneaks - Gymnastics - XTY
Sneaks - Gymnastics - Tough Luck
Sneaks - Gymnastics - New Taste
Sneaks - Gymnastics - True Killer
Sneaks - Gymnastics - Red
Sneaks - Gymnastics - Down in the Woods
Sneaks - Gymnastics - No Problem

Wet Brain - Not Sorry - Waitress
Wingdam - Glow Ahead - How To Swim
Ami Dang - Uni Sun - Sublimate
Moss of Aura - We'll All Collide - Wheels

Pippa - Single - Blue Temple
Pippa - Single - Callin’ In

Angry Angles - Angry Angles - Crowds
Martha - Blisters In the Pit of My Heart - Precarious (The Supermarket Song)
Earth Girls - Wanderlust LP - I Thought You Knew

Yung - A Youthful Dream - A Youthful Dream
Sheila Beach - Walk Home - Wally M
Vivien Goldman - Resolutionary (Songs 1979-1982) - Launderette

Originally aired September 14, 2016

PLASMALAB and THE DREARIES!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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

Subscribe to AUX now: http://bit.ly/11yrReU Directed by Ed Steinberg Chandra's Transportation EP is available via Cantor Records ___ Daily news, interviews, and more: http://www.aux.tv/ FREE AUX MAGAZINE (APPLE): https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/aux-magazine/id528705727?mt=8 FREE AUX MAGAZINE (ANDROID): https://play.google.com/store/magazines/details/AUX_Magazine?id=CAowtd6iAg SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/auxtv Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/auxtv Tumblr: http://auxtv.tumblr.com

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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!

Subscribe to the podcast!

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram!

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