City Slang

SHITTY SLANG (our new free-wheeling between-episode show) gets renamed to MINI SLANG after extensive Listener Satisfaction feedback. Plus, we call Gina Vinelli from the band BONNIE DOON to tell crazy tales of the Doon Buggy in anticipation of next week's all-vehicle concept episode!

Allie Hanlon of Peach Kelli Pop returns to CITY SLANG! We deep dive on spicy ramen, get Trader Joe essentials, and give Moms credit for being weird. Plus we get Allie's LA travel tips for broke people and millionaires, and we run through celebrity encounters with Chelsea Peretti, Marc Maron, and Michael Cera! And also a trip to Danzig's house with New Swears??? We play new tunes from the new Peach Kelli Pop EP and LP: Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - Honey Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - Black Magic Peach Kelli Pop - Which Witch - Crooked & Crazy Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - Parasomnia Peach Kelli Pop - Which Witch - Los Angeles Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - Quiet Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - Black Cat 13 Peach Kelli Pop - Which Witch - Drug Store’s Symbol of Happiness Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - King Size Peach Kelli Pop - Which Witch - Pitch Black Peach Kelli Pop - Which Witch - Shine Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader - Don’t Push Me Peach Kelli Pop - Which Witch - Rocky Mountains P

Introducing SH*TTY SLANG! We're changing up the CITY SLANG schedule to twice a month (for our sanity, and for the quality of the show)--But don't fret! SH*TTY SLANG is our new free-form nonsense show we'll be putting out between proper CITY SLANG episodes. We wanna hear what you think! Is SHITTY SLANG an awful name? Should we have call ins? Do you want to host the show for a week? We can do whatever we want, and we're looking forward to straight goofing off in the studio every two weeks! PLUS this week we play a preview of our Peach Kelli Pop interview, and a set of tunes inspired by the band!

This week we talk to Saskatoon's THE AVULSIONS about levels of swearing, starting beef with Elon Musk, Mennonite-Chinese restaurants, and we fail to learn about the gems of Saskatoon! Plus we get hot takes on Dave Mustaine and The Simpsons sucking! And stay tuned until the end of the episode to hear us call the band back to ask about a GREAT previous band name!

All Canadian music, all hour! We play new Canadian tunes, a set of Saskatoon bands picked by THE AVULSIONS, a set of French music, a four-band split featuring WLMRT & Deathsticks, and music from St. John's Newfoundland!   The Avulsions - Expanding Program - BOB Freak Heat Waves - Beyond XXXL - Toxic Talk Show Rhythm of Cruelty - Dispossession - Dispossession Caves - Young Adult Contemporary - Deep Beige Chunder Buffet - Cesspool - Obvious Waitress - Delay Our Time - Crome Cande WLMRT - 4 Band Split - I Quit Jack Astors Deathsticks - 4 Band Split - I Named My Ulcer After You Nüshu - 4 Band Split - Génération Nomophobe Nightbummerz - 4 Band Split - Assembly Victime - La Femme Taupe - Fatigue Bleu Nuit - Bleu Nuit - Vaguess Essaie Pas - New Path - Complet Brouillé Yee Grlz - Brainwashed - Stop Bothering Me Conditioner - Conditioner - Alright Lo Siento - Bingo Bango - No Tengo Remedio Ribbon Tied - Past Finding Out - Someone

Chad VanGaalen returns to the show! We revisit his daughter's psychic bug connection, get gardening advice, talk bee culture and offsetting toilet flushes! Plus Chad implores animators to quit for their health, we discuss building robots with the Jim Henson Company, and get to the bottom of his missing copy of Puzznic for the NES!

We talk to Nigel of NAP EYES, and get health tips for listeners, find out what anime he's watching, and get deep about Legend of Zelda's Dark Link! Plus we discuss Nap Eyes mega fan Marc Maron and Nigel struggles to rank his favourite Green Day albums! We play these tunes: Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now - Every Time The Feeling Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now - I’m Bad Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now - Judgment The Mighty Northumberland - Single - Dark Link Nap Eyes - Whine of the Mystic - Dark Creedence Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now - Roses Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now - You Like To Joke Around With Me Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale - Click Clack Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now - Dull Me Line Green Day - Insomniac - No Pride

All music episode this week, as we showcase 4 labels from around the world! (But mostly Canada). Lots of punk rock, techno, and weird ambient. Featured music:   La Vida Es Un Mus (London, UK) Rixe - Promo Tape - Les Cents Pas Haram - When You Have Won, You Have Lost - The Prophet Patsy - LA Women - Count It On Down Limp Wrist - Facades - Don’t Want You Pleasance Records (Toronto, ON) J Blissette - Until I Go Blind - A Series of Observations Fake Palms - Pure Mind - I’m Not There Moon Eyed - Haleiwa - Highway Night Drive Man Made Hill - Fingertip - My Accoutrements Neck Chop (Fullerton, California) Gee Tee - Death Race EP - Death Race Knowso - Look At The Chart - White Science The Living Eyes - Modern Living - Better Think Again Paroxoteens - Color T.V. - Paroxoteens Low Noise Production Clint House - Wantaway EP - Give Me Your Answers Young Truck - Ambivalent II - Sette CMD - Wavecraft - Juno Chronicles Pseudo Laboratories (Edmonton) k. burwash - Moonlanding - Hadley Rille Soft Ions - Soft Ions - Hunger W

Jessica Jalbert of Faith Healer talks to us about SKA SECRETS FROM HER PAST, fear of make up, conquering karaoke, Riverdale (like all our Mint Records interviews), and dog geniuses! Plus Jessica helps Travis decipher interview notes about her! We play these tunes: Faith Healer - Try ;-) - & Waiting Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Might As Well Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Light Of Loving Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Try ;-) Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Sterling Silver Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Such a Gemini Faith Healer - Try ;-) - 2nd Time Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Sufferin' Creature Faith Healer - Cosmic Troubles - Again Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Best Saved 4 Last

Sara Jean Hughes (music video director) and Josiah Hughes (co-host of Blink 155) of the band PRE NUP join us on the show! They discuss their recent trip to Sundance, awkward chats with David Wain, a near-miss encounter with tom DeLonge, and the time a home visit from Colin Hanks lead to the dissolution of an artisinal popcorn store and Queen Latifah's TV show! Plus we play these tunes: Pre Nup - Pre Nup - Wrong Your Pre Nup - Pre Nup - Air Quotes Pre Nup - Pre Nup - Defending Your Life Pre Nup - Pre Nup - Cleansing Flood Pre Nup - Oh Well (Unreleased LP) - The Grudge C.H.E.W. - Post-Trash: Volume Three - Bread and Butter Booji Boys - Post-Trash: Volume Three - PC Friends Forever Mauno - Post-Trash: Volume Three - Keys Grim Streaker- Post-Trash: Volume Three - Freak Child Sally Dige - Holding On - Holding On Azar Swan - Savage Exile - Heavy Water Утро - Утро - Спесь Aus - Demo - Abgemacht Beta Boys - Brick Walls 7” - Brick Walls The Spook School - Could It Be Different? - Less Than Perfect The Spook School

We talk to Sam from Toronto's PONY! We discuss her TV obsession, (including the Shrek spinoff we all know and love, Shrek's Swamps Stories), the worst songs that have made her cry, and we test her on her Pinterest pinned recipes in a segment called PINNED TO THE WALL! Plus we play these tunes: Pony - Do You - I Don't Know Pony - Do You - Healthy Brain Pony - Do You - Monster Pony - Do You - Fingernails Pony - Do You - Small Things Freak Heat Waves - Beyond XXXL - Self Vortex Anwar Sadat - Ersatz Living - No Exit Idles - Brutalism - Mother Salad Boys - This Is Glue - Psych Slasher Total Control - Laughing at the System - Future Creme Death Of Lovers - The Acrobat - Perfect History Drab Majesty - The Demonstration - Dot In The Sky

Our tribute to Peter Eichhorn of P. Trash Records. Featuring tracks from P. Trash artists and thoughts from: Steve Adamyk (Steve Adamyk Band, Sedatives) Rob Seaton (Statues, Der Faden) Ian Manhire (Sedatives, The White Wires) Eric Daigle (Fear of Lipstick, Feral Trash) Dave Williams (Sedatives, Year Zero, Last Communion, Steve Adamyk Band) Ilona (The Dagger Eyes) Patrick (Hosehead Records) Eric (FDH Records) We play: Statues - New People Make Us Nervous - The Last Stand The Toyotas - Made Headlines - T.V. Injection Fear of Lipstick - Seasons - Memel Year Zero - Year One - Seasons Idle Hands - Postponed - Vacant Stare The Dagger Eyes - The Dagger Eyes - Vampire Latex Squad - 7” - Black Birds Having Fun Sedatives - 7” - Teenage Runaway And new tracks from: Dazey and the Scouts - Maggot - Groan Shopping - The Official Body - Wild Child PONY - Single - Alone Tonight Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens - Six Wave Hold-Down The Men - Drift - Maybe I’m Crazy Death of Lovers - The Acrobat - Ursula in B Major Moon Duo - Juk

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!   Hit us up with your own Decades picks on Twitter, @cityslangradio.   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 B

First episode back of 2018! We speak to Petra Glynt while she paints to talk about all kinds of delightful things: her new puppy, favourite musicals, and good good food. We also talk about a harrowing experience getting stuck at a UK immigration detainment centre.

Canadian music legend Julie Doiron joins us for a special hour-long interview! We discuss kids, 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! 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

Toronto's 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

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 over to http://chuo.fm/support/ 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 an S-Town style odyssey with MOTHERHOOD! The bonkers CITY SLANG BE OUR GUEST CONTEST when we surprised BONNIE DOON member Gina Vinelli! QUIZ CHALLENGES featuring 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 to intro their tracks!

  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

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 -

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: Brit 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