Decades! The best songs from '78/'88/'98/2008!

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New segment: DECADES! We pick the best songs from every relative decade working from 2018! So songs from 1978/1988/1998/2008! It’s really quite easy to understand, okay? Stop asking questions!
 
We discuss what we might have listened to if we weren’t unborn/babies in the 70s and 80s, and get really deep into which of our favorite teenage music still gives us embarrassment chills! Plus Travis challenges everyone to a twitter fight over Isn’t Anything being a better album than Loveless!
  
We play these tunes:
 
Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers - Ghosts of Princes in Towers
Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army - Listen to the Sirens
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - No New York - Burning Rubber
Crass - The Feeding of the 5000 - Punk Is Dead

Youth Of Today - We’re Not In This Alone - No More
Doughboys - 7” - You’re Related
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything - When You Wake You're Still In a Dream
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation - ‘Cross The Breeze

Botch - American Nervoso - Hutton’s Great Heat Engine
Saves The Day - Can’t Slow Down - Deciding
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children - ROYGBIV
Blonde Redhead - In an Expression of the Inexpressible - Luv Machine

Jay Reatard - See Saw / Screaming Hand
Carbonas - Self-Titled - Phone Booth
Women - Women - Shaking Hand
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna - Vacuum

Originally aired Jan 17, 2018

PETRA GLYNT

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First episode back of 2018! We speak to PETRA GLYNT while she paints, and discuss all kinds of delightful things: the music her new puppy relaxes to, childhood musicals, and stewed sauerkraut.  But we also talk about a harrowing experience getting stuck at a UK immigration detainment centre.

We play these tunes:

Petra Glynt - This Trip - Fell in a Hole
Petra Glynt - This Trip - The Cold
Petra Glynt - This Trip - This Trip
Petra Glynt - This Trip - Propaganda
Petra Glynt - This Trip - Up to the People
Petra Glynt - This Trip - Radical

Negative Space - Gestalt - Open Secret
Booji Boys - Weekend Rocker - Locked Up In The City
Bugg - Bugg - Whiskey in the Water

The Avulsions - Expanding Program - The End
Material - Material - Material
Spray Paint and Ben Mackie - Friendly Moving Man 7" - Friendly Moving Man
Total Control - Laughing at The System - Vanity

Originally aired Jan 10, 2018

JULIE DOIRON!

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Canadian music legend JULIE DOIRON joins us for a special hour-long interview! We discuss the meditation of doing dishes, kale salad recipes, her time as a community radio host, and Julie Doiron Day!

Plus we run her through the Sappyfest Questionnaire she invented, and we ask her to rate the CITY SLANG questionnaire with hilarious results! The questionnaire is irreperably changed!

And we play tunes from throughout her career:

Julie and the Wrong Guys - Self-Titled - Call My Own Shots
Eric’s Trip - Peter - Happens All The Time
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars - Self-Titled - The Best Thing For Me
Julie and the Wrong Guys - Self-Titled - Love and Leaving

Eric’s Trip - Forever Again - My Chest is Empty
Julie and the Wrong Guys - Self-Titled - You Wanted What I Wanted
Julie and the Wrong Guys - Self-Titled - Condescending You
Weird Lines - Self-Titled - Between The Lampost (You and I)
Julie and the Wrong Guys - Self-Titled - Broken Pieces Barely Cold

Originally aired Dec 13, 2017

WHIMM

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WHIMM join us in-studio to expound on their musical roots, influences, and process! Emmanuel creates a post-punk soundscape of their music to accompany it! It’s a psychedelic CITY SLANG, with less of the hosts talking (you’re welcome).

Plus we play these tunes, including a bunch of electronic music and a new song from TOTAL CONTROL:

Whimm - A Stare Ajar - Town Hall
Whimm - A Stare Ajar - A Stare Ajar
Whimm - A Stare Ajar - Crescent
Whimm - A Stare Ajar - Fifth Column
Whimm - A Stare Ajar - Second Sound
Whimm - A Stare Ajar - Undermine

Total Control - Laughing At The System - Laughing At The System 1
The Vicious - Obsessive 7” - Dead Town
The New Calling - 12” - The New Calling

Love Cuts - Love Cuts - Hi Smile Wave
Moul D. - Demo CS - Problems at Work

Odonis Odonis - No Pop - Check My Profile
BODYKIT - No-NRG - Exploded World View
Carla Dal Forno - The Garden - We Shouldn’t Have to Wait (London)

Boyharsher - Lesser Man - Pain

Originally aired Dec 5, 2017

Best-of 2017/Funding drive special

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It’s funding drive season! We work our butts off to make CITY SLANG. If you dig what we do consider, supporting our mother station CHUO to make sure we stay on the air FOREVERRRR! Head here to find out how.

Meanwhile, we’ve put together an early BEST OF to remind you of all the ridiculous things we got on the air this year! Featuring:

• The time we interviewed SIMPLY SAUCER/JESSE LOCKE at our Dominion Tavern live show and got heckled by drunken punks!
• The time we went on a bizarre S-Town style bowling odyssey with MOTHERHOOD!
• The bonkers CITY SLANG BE OUR GUEST CONTEST when we surprised BONNIE DOON member Gina Vinelli!
• JAY ARNER & JESSICA DELISLE taking a Star Trek quiz, and LAB COAST taking a Degrassi quiz!
• The time we premiered PENTAGON BLACK VOL. 2 and musicians across Canada sent us hilarious recordings!

Originally aired Nov 30, 2017

All Music Blowout

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All music all hour! We ordered too many good new tunes, so this week is a music fire sale! Hear set of new emo, a super chill set of tunes we wouldn’t normally play on the show, a new tape segment, and a set of French punk!

We play all those tracks and more:

Caracara - Summer Megalith - Burn Me I’m Made of Matches
Racquet Club - Racquet Club - Blood on The Moon
Iron Chic - You Can’t Stay Here - A Headache With Pictures

Bless - Bless 7” - You’re Always On TV
Dog - Trash Temple - Ninth Gate to Deep Reservoir
The Brain - First Steps - Too Much To Dream

Porches - The House - Country
Grouper - Unreleased - Children
Fear of Men - Unreleased - Change Me

U-Nix - 8 Songs - Star
U-Nix - 8 Songs - Implicated
U-Nix - 8 Songs - Vapidity

Quicksand - Interiors - Illuminant
Superchunk - What A Time To be Alive - What A Time To Be Alive
Frigs - Single - Doghead

Durs Coeurs - Dur Dur Dur - L’eau et le feu
Scientists - Single - Mini, Mini, Mini
Essaie Pas - Single - Futur Parlé

Originally aired Nov 22, 2017

PARTNER

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Josée and Lucy of PARTNER join us this week for a hilarious episode! We discuss Partner fanfic, get lectured on making prank phone calls, and learn about a labyrinthine prank spearheaded by NEW SWEARS that led Partner on a journey of discovery! Weed discovery!

Plus we play these tunes:

Partner - In Search Of Lost Time - Comfort Zone
Partner - In Search Of Lost Time - Everybody Knows
Partner - In Search Of Lost Time - You Don’t Have To Say Thank You
Partner - In Search Of Lost Time - Gross Secret
Partner - In Search Of Lost Time - Daytime TV
Partner - In Search Of Lost Time - Creature In The Sun

BLAHA - Fresh Horse EP - All My Cells
Jim and the French Vanilla - Afraid of the House - When You’re Down
The Blind Shake - Soft Zodiac - Wise Mr Owl

Omni - Multi-Task - Equestrian
Supercrush - I Don’t Want To Be Sad Anymore 7” - I Don’t Want To Be Sad Anymore
First Base - Not That Bad - Not That Bad

Uniform - No Trending - Crystal World
Uniform - Wake In Fright - Tabloid

Haram -  When You Have Won, You Have Lost - American Police
Shamir - On The Regular (Josée from Partner)

Originally aired Nov 15, 2017

WALTER SCHREIFELS of Gorilla Biscuits/Youth of Today/Quicksand/Rival Schools/Dead Heavens

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This week, we interview WALTER SCHREIFELS of Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, Quicksand, Rival Schools and Dead Heavens! Travis isn't punk enough, so we bring in a ringer to help Emmanuel with the interview: Britt of PRISM on CHUO!

Plus we play new tunes and a C86 tape segment on Dark Thoughts:

Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today - Degradation
Dead Heavens - Adderall Highway - Adderall Highway
Quicksand - Slip - Dine Alone
Rival Schools - United By Fate - High Acetate
Quicksand - Slip - Omission
Rival Schools - United By Fate - Used For Glue

Radiator Hospital - The Songs You Like - The People At The Show
Bully - Losing - Running
Rubber Mate - Cha Boi 7” - Cha Boi

Dark Thoughts - Halloween Tape - No Good
Dark Thoughts - Halloween Tape - Don’t Wanna
Dark Thoughts - Halloween Tape - Hate This Song

Dark Thoughts - Halloween Tape - Little Thing

Originally aired Nov 8, 2017

2017 HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR

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Happy Halloween! Join our despicable hosts Emmanu-kill Slayer and Sadist Boo-venue for the spookiest Halloween punk playlist of the year! Turn the lights down low and the volume up high, and don't get too scared listening this weekend.

We play these frightful tunes:

The Mystrys - Witch Girl
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Bo Diddley - Bo Meets The Monster
Anasazi - Horror at the Mass
The Sonics - Witch
Dead Moon - Walking On My Grave
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
The Mummies - The Fly

Lord Luther - I Was a Teenage Creature
The Madmen - Haunted
Five Man Electrical Band - Werewolf
Lords of The New Church - New Church
Zombi - Surface to Air
DA! - Dark Rooms
Gene ‘Bowlegs’ Miller - Frankenstein Walk

Originally aired Oct 25, 2017

WEAVES

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We talk to Jasmyn from Toronto's WEAVES about cruise ships, getting tour tattoos, Criss Angel's fedora, and seeing live magic!

Plus, we play a spotlight on Digital Regress and these tunes:

Weaves - Wide Open - Walkaway
Weaves - Wide Open - Number 53
Weaves - Wide Open - Slicked
Weaves - Wide Open - La La
Weaves - Wide Open - Gasoline

Preening - Beeters 7” - Plaza Scare
Mane - Alpha Female - White Knuckles
Rut - Attraction 7” - My Skin

Deliluh - Linger In The Afterlight - Hail The Fix
Trampoline Team - Drug Culture 7” - I Don’t Play Games
Casper Skulls - Mercy Works - You Can Call Me Allocator

Odonis Odonis - No Pop - Nasty Boy

Originally aired October 18, 2017

METZ

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METZ return to CITY SLANG! They discuss Steve Albini’s Facebook obsession, METZ super fan Keanu Reeves, and redefining Dad rock! Plus listen to the end of the episode for a sneak peek of next week's interview with WEAVES!

We play these tunes:

METZ - Strange Peace - Mess Of Wires
METZ - Strange Peace - Cellophane
METZ - Strange Peace - Lost in the Blank City
METZ - Strange Peace - Mr Plague
METZ - Strange Peace - Common Trash

Chad Vangaalen - Light Information - Mind Hijacker's Curse
Organ Eyes - single - Mike Myers
Tough Age - Shame - Me In Glue

Lone Taxidermist - Trifle - Bijoux Boy
Neo Neos - The Hammer of Civilization EP - The Hammer of Civilization
The Monoliths - The Monoliths - Feeling Geography

Lina Tullgren - Won - Face Off

Originally aired Oct 4, 2017

JAY ARNER

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We talk to Jay, Jessica, Adrienne, and Kate of JAY ARNER! We discuss eating tubes, Jay's seasonal allergies, and the scale of parody music (from They Might Be Giants to Dr. Demento)! Then Jay and Jess are subjected to a HARROWING Star Trek: The Next Generation Quiz that will no doubt alienate most of our audience! It's a great one!

PLUS a preview of next week's interview with METZ, and we play these tracks:

Jay Arner - Jay Arner - Midnight on South Granville
Jay Arner - Jay Arner - Don’t Remind Me
Jay Arner - Jay Arner II - Personal Line
Jay Arner - Jay Arner II - Back To School
Jay Arner - Jay Arner II - Earth To Jay

Piece War - Apathy - Monster
Steve Haley - Heat Vision - Bowling Lanes
Un Blonde - Good Will Come To You - Staying in Line

Coastal Pigs - Becomes a scene, becomes the nothing - Dirty Stove
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent - Don't Go To Anacita
Beliefs - Habitat - 1994

Weaves - Single - Scream ft. Tanya Tagaq

Originally aired Sept 27, 2017

Back-to-school local music spotlight pt. 2

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There's too much good music in Ottawa. Here's PART TWO of our local music spotlight! Plus a spotlight on new PLEASANCE RECORDS releases, and new tunes from around the world! And stick around for a hilarious sneak peak of our interview with JAY ARNER!

We play these tunes:

Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland - Carry On
Cheap Whine - S/T - A Little Change
Potential Red - Broken - Broken
Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Panty Twister
The Creeps - Eulogies - Reach Out

Tightlip - Demo MMXVII - Don’t Care
New Swears - and the Magic of Horses - Vanilla
DJ Smoke Weed Guy - Fantasy Island - Space Invasion
Pippa - Single - Off It

Fake Palms - Pure Mind - Glass Walls
Moon Eyed - Haleiwa - Heart in The Shade
WHIMM - A Stare Ajar - Town Hall

Metz - Strange Peace - Cellophane
Zola Jesus - Okovi - Exhumed
King Krule - 7" - Dum Surfer

Makthaverskan - III - In My Dreams
Dasher - Sodium - We Know So

Originally aired Sept 20, 2017

Back-to-school local music spotlight

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It’s our back-to-school music spotlight! Featuring our favorite new Ottawa releases! Plus some new weird tunes, and Emmanuel and Travis discuss the best skit on the new Partner album! Skits are back!

We play these tunes:

Lake Urmia - Wine Time - Walnut Tree
Boyhood - Bad Mantras - He Don’t
No Mistakes In Space - No Mistakes In Space - Oblivious

Organ Eyes - Single - Chasing Paper
Telecomo - For Sale - Long Gone
Warp Lines - Demo - You Have Worms

Sparklesaurus - Single - So Right
Empty Nesters - Demos - Get Zen
Deathsticks - Deathsticks/Right Shitty split - Buzzkill

Deerhoof - Mountain Moves - Slow Motion Detonation
Woolworm - Deserve to Die - Judgement Day
Partner - In Search of Lost Time - Ambassador to Ecstasy

Anxiety - Wild Life 7" - Lizard Lads Under a Rock
Tracy Bryant - Parachute 7" - Parachute
Maximum Joy - I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights: Singles 1981-82 - White and Green Place (Extraterrestrial Mix)

Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time - The Pure and the Damned ft Iggy Pop

Originally aired Sept 14, 2017

WEEDRAT

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WEEDRAT from Albuquerque, New Mexico join us on the show! We talk about Ginger the cat and celebrity sightings at Whole Foods with Rob Schneider and Bono! Can you guess which one eats a rotisserie chicken with their hands? Plus the band outlines a perfect day in Albuquerque!

Originally aired Sept 6, 2017

REST OF THE BEST vol 3 featuring BBQT, CASPER SKULLS, LONELY PARADE, DUNES, HOODED FANG, NEEDLES//PINS, and TOUGH AGE!

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Best of the Rest vol 3! CITY SLANG presents The best goofs, gaffes, and oddball interview bits that hit the cutting room floor, presented to you in their full unnecessary glory! Including:

BBQT encounter Tinder music critics
CASPER SKULLS talk about their harrowing worst show
LONELY PARADE on being childhood friends
DUNES take the brutal X-Files quiz
HOODED FANG deal with music critic kids
NEEDLES//PINS on getting a karaoke party started with Shania Twain
TOUGH AGE discuss their appearance on the sexy Archie show

Plus we play these tunes:

Alex Calder - Strange Dreams - Strange Dreams
BBQT - Demo - High Wasted (Live)
Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Devotion
The Lonely Parade - No Shade - Window
Dunes - Bedtime - I'm so…
Hooded Fang - Dynasty House - Queen of Agusan
Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Good Night

Originally aired Aug 9, 2017

ALL FAKE PUNK, ALL HOUR!

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Emmanuel watched his VHS copy of Sid and Nancy again and how he's infected by his 100% true punk alter-ego, SKID VICIOUS! Skid put together a playlist of dubiously punk music and harasses Travis the entire show.

We play these extremely punk tunes:

Village People - Renaissance - Food Fight

Norman and The Hooligans - Single - I’m A Punk
The Rude Band - Single - I’m a Punk
Geiger - BINGO French Punk Exploitation 1978-1981 - Je Suis Punky

Stefan - BINGO French Punk Exploitation 1978-1981 - J’Suis Pas Méchant

Sexe a Pile - BINGO French Punk Exploitation 1978-1981 - Pas Vraiment Méchan
Fancy Rosy - BINGO French Punk Exploitation 1978-1981 - Punk Police

Not The Nine O’Clock News - Single - Gob On You
Andy C - Single - I Want To Be A Punk Rocker
Charlie Drake - Single - Super Punk

T-Rex - Single - Celebrate Summer

Johnny Rubbish - Single - Living in NW3 4JR
Cherry Vanilla - Single - The Punk
Kevin Short & His Privates - Single - Punk Strut

David Peel and Death - King of Punk - King of Punk

Originally aired July 26

HOODED FANG / PHÈDRE

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Our hungriest episode yet!! We talk to April and Daniel of HOODED FANG and PHÈDRE about missing lunch, meeting majestic white tigers, finding religion after eating bad oysters, and the worst times to catch the Wu-Tang Clan!

Plus we play these tunes and a spot-light on their label DAPS RECORDS:

Hooded Fang - Dynasty House - Queen of Agusan
Hooded Fang - Dynasty House - Sister and Suns
Hooded Fang - Dynasty House - Nene of the Light
Hooded Fang - Dynasty House - Paramaribo Prince
Hooded Fang - Dynasty House - Doñamelia

Ken Park - You Think About It Too Much - He said I'm an Island (I won't try and find him)
Above Top Secret - Above Top Secret -LION
Tonkapuma + Times Neue Roman - Gory Daze - Slow Motion
Phèdre - Golden Age - Ancient Nouveau

Cheap Whine - Cheap Whine - Opening
Cell - Demo 7" - Contempt

Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Light of Loving
Guerilla Toss - GT Ultra - Betty Dreams of Green Men

Lee Paradise - Water Palace Kingdom - Honourific

Rat Boys - GN - Control

Originally aired July 12, 2017

CASPER SKULLS!

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We talk to CASPER SKULLS outside the Ottawa Explosion festival! After witnessing a minor fender bender, we discuss the time they hit a deer (the same deer FLASHER hit in episode 140?!), the alt-right's most hated venue, and working in the lard business!

Plus we play these tunes:

Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Lips and Skull
Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Devotion
Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Errands
Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Love Brain
Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Caught On A Wire

XETAS - The Tower - The Jaws
Taiwan Housing Project - Veblen Death Mask - Authentic Alien Perfume
Hate Sex - World of Grief - Weird Dream, Conscious Stream
Blank Square - Animal I - Empty Head

B-Boys - Dada - Discipline
Institute - Subordination - Good Ol Boys
Booji Boys - S/T - I Dream of Booji
Booji Boys - S/T - Waiting 2 Die

Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone - It's Different Now

Originally aired July 5, 2017

NEEDLES//PINS

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Macey of NEEDLES//PINS joins us to talk about running Budgie's Burritos, Prince tattoos, mushroom vans, karaoke, and which Blondie song is about getting bit on the ass by a dog!

Plus we play these tunes:

Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Good Night
Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Violet
Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Back To The Bright
Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Sleep
Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - All The Same
Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Tomorrow

Teenanger - Teenager - Dawn - 3:53
Chad VanGaalen - Single - Old Heads
Corridor - Supermercado - Demain Déjà

Stef Chura - Messes - Slow Motion
ISS - Endless Pussyfooting - HOT BOI
Weedrat - III - Dead Horse
Voigt/465 - Slights Still Unspoken (Selected Recordings 1978-1979) - A Welcome Mystery

Sheer Mag - 7” - What You Want

Originally aired June 27, 2017