City Slang

The great MIKE KROL returns! One of our favourite guests joins us to discuss the burden of jean fits, what to do with a mannequin head of yourself, visiting Jack Black's house, and how to find the perfect explosion sound. PLUS a comprehensive career update when our hard-hitting news segment "The Krol Report" returns! Track list!  Mike Krol Power Chords Power Chords Mike Krol Power Chords Power Chords Mike Krol I Hate Jazz Fifteen Minutes Mike Krol Power Chords What's The Rhythm Mike Krol Power Chords Left For Dead Mike Krol Power Chords Blue And Pink Mike Krol Trust Fund Plague Mike Krol Power Chords Little Drama Mike Krol Power Chords I Wonder Mike Krol Power Chords Nothing To Yell About Mike Krol Power Chords An Ambulance Mike Krol Power Chords Wasted Memory Mike Krol Power Chords The End

Steve Sidoli (Teenanger) joins us to discuss the label he co-runs, TELEPHONE EXPLOSION and their new ambient/new age/optimistic re-issue imprint MORNING TRIP. Steve runs us through the re-issue process, the state of selling records in 2019, and what happens when you call out of the blue to ask someone about the music they recorded 20 years ago and forgot about. Sometimes they pitch you on paper records!

PILL join us to discuss the secret history of the dog on their cover art, crashing a state-funded artist squat in Germany, the secret members of their band (Sheila 1 and 2), and introducing their supergroup parents at the MOMA! Plus Travis goes full-Narduar and we stumble on the Pill DOS game! Plus we play these tunes: Pill - Soft Hell - Dark Glass Pill - Soft Hell - Fruit Pill - Convenience - 100% Cute Pill - Soft Hell - Double Think Pill - Soft Hell - Plastic Pill - Soft Hell - Midtown Patrick Crowley - Afternooners - Surfside Sex Lubricated Goat - Plays the Devil's Music - Nerve Quake

It's our BEST OF 2018 EPISODE! Bask in some of the funnest moments of the year with some of our favourite people: Peach Kelli Pop meets Danzig (with a Mike Krol cameo) Prenup hang out with Colin Hanks (with a Queen Latifah cameo) Lié gets Henry Rollins on the phone to chat with a boyfriend BBQT discuss the worst time to get dumped Nap Eyes give dubious and thorough fitness advice Dead Soft expose Dirty Nil's hilarious tour workout Faith Healer gives us more than we bargained for when we ask about Thunder Bay Boyhood shares a heartbreaking bat story Pony takes the Pinned To The Wall Pinterest food quiz WLMRT swims into a concert to steal some beers Chad Vangaalen wants to break into someone's house to steal back his Nintendo

Protomartyr returns! CITY SLANG correspondent Ev interviews Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey about working with other bands (including their Kim Deal collaboration), forgetting to write your lyrics down, hating the mosh pit, and learning your #1 fan is a nightmare kid.

Emmanuel and Travis make an impassioned fee for you to donate to the station that keeps us alive: CHUO 89.1FM! Listen and donate, it's easy and helps independent media! Then Ottawa's own EXPANDA FUZZ take us track-by-track through their new self-released album, Cotton Candy Jet Engine!

We chat with Shelby from WLMRT about CITY SLANG favorite topics like karaoke and The Simpsons, but we also learn about intestinal training, coffee shop celebrity encounters, and we start a new segment called Movie Corner. Shelby also shares an epic tale of sneaking in to a concert, stealing beers and ending up with a $500 dental bill. We play basically WLMRT's full discography including the brand new LUBE 2 EP out now on Pleasance Records!

We call Nathaniel and Keeley of DEAD SOFT and discuss eating healthy on the road, the time they caught The Dirty Nil planking, living on Gabriola Island with hummingbirds, and their new EP on Arts and Crafts! Plus we get the first LIVE-ON-RADIO PARALLEL PARK in CITY SLANG history!  We play these tunes: Dead Soft - New Emotion - Kill Me Dead Soft - New Emotion - Proof Dead Soft - New Emotion - I'm Afraid Dead Soft - New Emotion - Down Dead Soft - New Emotion - Bones Supercrush - I've Been Around - I've Been Around Woolworm - Deserve To Die - Seer Daddy's Hands - Daddy's Hands - Statistics Wigs Expanda Fuzz - Cotton Candy Jet Engine - Ghosts And Flowers Civic - Those Who No - Pleasure Flesh Rag - Inside Your Mind - Inside Your Mind Frigs - Single - Crop Circles Dilly Dally - Heaven - I Feel Free

We get right to dumping brand new music on everyone's heads this week. We play: Marbled Eye - Leisure - Laughing Sound Carbonas - Your Moral Superiors: Singles And Rarities - Blackout (Waiting To Happen) Tommy & The Commies - Here Come... - Throwaway Love School Damage - A to X - City Streets Cold Leather - Smart Movies - Stunned Nerve Beats - Nerve Beats - Pink on the C.C. Line Deathsticks - Funny Ha Ha Cool - In The Motors Jock Tears - Bad Boys - Neil Young Institute - Beat Session Vol. 6 - Only Child Booji Boys - Unknown Pleathers 7" - Kanadian Kontent Constant Mongrel - Living In Excellence - Action Dead Soft - Single - Kill Me Weathered Statues - Borderlands - The Silver Cliff Crack Cloud - Crack Cloud 7" - Drab Measure Xarah Dion - Collision EP - Asphalt Viagra Boys - Street Worms - Just Like You Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams - Normal People

We call Andrew of WALK A MILE RECORDS! We discuss why he started a record label, his master's thesis, and the story behind Sedition's vicious Papa John take down. Plus Andrew picks a set of music including Gold Finch, Sedition, and Miles Between Us.

Charlotte of LONELY PARADE returns to CITY SLANG! We rehash some McDonalds talk from the last time we spoke, plus we discuss nearly chopping her finger off making vegetarian food, Chicago regional foods (including a Malort flashback), Kim Kardashian hot dog stands, and more! It's an accidentally food-focused episode (as usual)!

Caylie of Boyhood joins us to talk about the nap blues, creepy critter stories, and what gift Nardwuar would gift her! Plus we make up a book recommendation segment called "Caylie's picks", and think up a Quantum Leap-style TV show!

Part 1 of Bonnie Doon's BACK IN THE USSA tour diary! Diarrhea talk, Sebadoh gossip, and an uber driver plays his Black Sabbath-inspired music! Plus interviews with musicians Jeff Gallagher and Big Quiet!

We talk to Brittany of Vancouver's LIÉ as she packs for her bands tour! We discuss the one perfect thing to pack on tour, the meaning of Cold Punk, playing to four people in Tijuana, and whether Taco Bell counts as a smoothie! Plus we get a hilarious story about HENRY ROLLINS!

We catch up with BBQT at Ottawa Explosion! We play clips from our their previously un-airable interview, discuss about the worst holidays to get dumped on, and crying in Peter Criss make up! Plus our interview gets crashed by Jarrett from TOUGH AGE and Allie from PEACH KELLI POP, who asks the band about their astrological signs ♒♌♏ Plus we play these tunes and a set of OTTAWA EXPLOSION bands: BBQT - All For Show - Moldy Memory BBQT - All Dressed - Your Band BBQT - BBQT - BBQT BBQT - All For Show - OK Cupid BBQT - All For Show - Heart Shaped Sticker BBQT - All For Show - Why Can’t I Luv U BBQT - All For Show - Quicksilver Boys Club BBQT - BBQT - Doo Wah Diddy (PKP cover) Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - Black Magic Tough Age - Shame - Everyday Life Wares - Wares - Mission Hill Feel Alright - In Bad Faith - Truth About Us Laika’s Orbit - OXW Sampler - Ghosting Victime - La Femme Taupe - Robot ou humain Heathers - Midnight Is A Place - Linear Movement Lonely Parade - No Shade - Window Doxx - III - Stab Risk Ti

Travis talks to Nora Singh of LA's HIT BARGAIN! They talk about how American health care is like a heist movie, the true story behind Matt the trampling fetishist, the making of the butt plug shiv, and Travis fails to get dirt on Katy Perry!

In our latest MINI SLANG, Travis' hangover story is interrupted when Emmanuel calls James Lindsay of PLEASENCE RECORDS! They talk about the Pleasence Records podcast, the Canadian music industry, squashing Twitter beefs, and a music industry conspiracy nearly assassinates our guest! Plus we play some new music from the Pleasence label.

Emmanuel and Travis dive into the depths of CHUO's vinyl vault, and spin an all-music show of 45 records! We combed through hundreds of records to bring you lost gems from the 90s, a totally burned out covers set, a sweet Factory records find, and more oddities! We take full credit for the inevitable revival of the The Freeze's "Paranoia" single after this episode.

In our latest MINI SLANG we call Alex Bourque of Montreal's EGG PAPER FACTORY label while he does laundry! We try to get dirt on a band for an upcoming interview, but Alex ends up dishing some fine dirt on Travis from his old grocery store job!

Our clip-show tribute to vehicles! Some of our funniest stories come from broken down tour vans, improvised car repairs, and near-disaster train rides, so we've combined them into this mega episode featuring hilarious stories from: Casper Skulls Pop. 1280 Weaves WEED Flasher Gun Outfit Motherhood Needles//Pins Guantanamo Baywatch Cousins