City Slang

The three members of Lonely Parade join us to discuss 20-minute Devo covers, performing for children, the Orb Guys of Canada, and their cat gets in on the interview with some no-so-radio-friendly language! We play new music, and some Bandcamp selections in support of the ACLU. Plus we play these tunes: The Lonely Parade - No Shade - Window The Lonely Parade - No Shade - Bro The Lonely Parade - No Shade - Girl The Lonely Parade - No Shade - Johnny Utah The Lonely Parade - No Shade - Chicken Wing The Lonely Parade - No Shade - No AM The Lonely Parade - No Shade - Newfoundland Booji Boys - Booji Boys - Dear Donny Tacocat - Lost Time - I Hate The Weekend Century Palm - Miss You - Then You're Gone Un Deseo De Muerte - Un Deseo De Muerte - Olvida FZ-10 - Nuevo Demo - Punk Hjarta Akvan - میراث - میراث

All music this episode! Including brand new releases, a Jesus and Mary Chain covers set, a set of new Ottawa hardcore, and a set of perfect songs under 2 minutes! We play: Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy - Just Like Honey - 3:03 Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands - April Skies - 4:01 Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic - Head On - 4:11 Shop Assistants - Flexi - You Trip Me Up Vacation - Experimental Physics - Snakedriver Tranzmitors - Busy Singles - Between Planets Pedestrian - Demo - Sink Rata Negra - Oido Absoluto - Ratas Pura Mania - Cerebros Punk - La Peste Doxx - II - Tofu Slime Toxic Thoughts - Toxic Thoughts - Trapped Omerta - Pyromania - Coward Wire - Pink Flag - Fragile Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes - Game of Pricks Wipers - Is This Real? - Mystery Priests - Nothing Feels Natural - Nothing Feels Natural Merchandise - A Corpse Wired For Sound - Silence Slowdive - Single - Star Roving Uniform - Wake in Fright - Tabloid

A beloved reoccurring character shows up to help Emmanuel and Travis with the long-lost best-of 2015 episode! Thanks, SLANGY THE CITY SLANG ROBOT! Includes Mike Krol stalking famous people, Century Palm doing the Gerry Rafferty challenge in a haunted jail, Dilly Dally's top karaoke picks, TV Freaks drinking spicy tequila, Priests' hair care routine, and MORE!  

Please, please, hold your applause! Our year-end spectacular includes hilarious moments featuring SNEAKS, FLASHER, JUICE BOX, DOXX, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, SIEVEHEAD, POP. 1280, CHANDRA, GUN OUTFIT, PROTOMARTYR, BEN JENSEN, and more!!

Annie-Claude Deschênes of Montreal's DUCHESS SAYS joins us for a wild conversation! We talk about the food court confessional she started after dressing like a nun, creating art out of insipid corporate products, and she crowd surfed into a concussion! Plus we play these tunes: Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Inertia Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - I Repeat Myself Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Negative Thoughts Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Poubelle Duchess Says - Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs - C.H.O.B. Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - I’m An Idea Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1 - Cold Fear Purling Hiss - High Bias - 3000 AD Drahla - digital single - Fictional Decision Peeling - Rats in Paradise - Wet Nurse Sad13 - Slugger - Line Up No Joy - Drool Sucker - A Thorn in Garland's Side BB Cream - Rose Petal Pie - Rose Petal Pie

We interview DC post-punk band FLASHER! We discover why they're the richest band in America: rich in deer guts, rich in mocha tapestries, rich in pillow case collections, and so much more.  Plus we play these tunes: Flasher - Flasher - All Over Flasher - Flasher - Love Me Flasher - Flasher - Destroy Flasher - Flasher - Make Out Flasher - Flasher - Erase Myself Flasher - Flasher - Tense Homeshake - Nankhatai/Stuck Inside charity single - Nankhatai Alex Calder - Nankhatai/Stuck Inside charity single - Stuck Inside Thee Oh Sees - An Odd Entrances - You Will Find It Here Nash the Slash - Dreams and Nightmares - Moon Curse Wy - Never Was EP - Hate To Fall Asleep Ty Segall - Single - Orange Color Queen

We get some deep dirt from Mish and Kenneth of WHITE LUNG, including Kenneth's prized Furby collection, and how he was prepared to tackle someone for Anne Hathaway! Plus the band's karaoke pet peeves, and Mish spills the beans on Tom Morello's salads! Plus we play these tracks: White Lung - It's The Evil - Viva La Rat White Lung - Sorry - Thick Lip White Lung - Deep Fantasy - Drown With the Monster White Lung - Paradise - Dead Weight White Lung - Paradise - Narcoleptic White Lung - Paradise - Hungry White Lung - Paradise - Kiss Me When I Bleed Marching Church - Telling it Like it Is - Lions Den The Men  - Devil Music - Lion’s Den Cheena - Spend the Night With… - Car Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull EP - Lips and Skull Chastity - S/T - You're Scary Now Sonic Avenues - Disconnector - Future Supermoon - Playland - Witching Hour New Fries - More - 90 Yr Old Girl Flasher - S/T - Erase Myself

Want to know what mopalobby means? Do you need a stringent set of arbitrary punk rules for your band to follow? Does your mom iron your punk patches on your jacket? If the answer to any of those questions is "yes", you need to listen to our interview with Ottawa's DOXX immediately! We cram the band into the back of a car and put them through a revealing dirt session/CITY SLANG questionnaire! Plus, we play these tunes: Crack Cloud - Anchoring Point - Image Craft Bonnie Doon - Pentagon Black Compilation No. 1 - Pants and a Face Loving - Loving - Forgot Again SPELL - Single/video - Hair In Your Eyes Total Bliss - Single - B.I.T.C.H. Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs & Idiots - Here Comes Mr Suck Primetime -  Going Places - Anyway Belgrado - Obraz - Dalej White Lung - Paradise - Below Monomyth - Happy Pop Family - Re: Lease Life (Place 2 Go)

We catch up with UK punks Sievehead for a cultural exchange! We learn about how to living in Sheffield staying drunk on trans-Atlantic flights, and they learn what real poutine is all about! Plus a public apology to one members father, as CITY SLANG's deep research methods reveals some family dirt! Plus we play these tunes: We catch up with UK punks Sievehead for a cultural exchange! We learn about how to living in Sheffield staying drunk on trans-Atlantic flights, and they learn what real poutine is all about! Plus a public apology to one members father, as CITY SLANG's deep research methods reveals some family dirt! Sievehead - Into The Blue - No Grapes Sievehead - Into The Blue - Look Both Ways Sievehead - Into The Blue - Hoax Sievehead - Into The Blue - Try The Mirror Sievehead - Into The Blue - Last Words Product of Reason - Household Shocks - Active Repetition One Gang Logic - Household Shocks - Playtime Juveniles - Household Shocks - Another Kind of Guy Homebody - Better Use of Leisure Time - Natur

The best goofs, gaffes, and oddball interview bits that hit the cutting room floor presented to you in their full unnecessary glory! Thrill to our compilation of civilian interruptions, tales of alternative rock house guests, historic esoterica from post-punk luminaries, and bizarre philosophizing about highway horses! Plus, we play these tunes: Tough Age - I Get The Feeling Central - Snakes & Ladders Rhythm Of Cruelty - Saturating - Day In, Day Out Unblonde - Good Will Come To You - Staying in Line Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect - The Devil in His Youth Century Palm - S/T - Desire Flasher - Flasher - Tense Priests - Nothing Feels Natural - JJ Post Pink - I Believe You, Ok - Take Me Cigarette - Warm Shadows 7” - Warm Shadows Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles - Negative Thoughts - 6:30 - CC Sievehead - 7” - Try The Mirror (Pure Gold mix) - 6:52

Live, all-vinyl, funding drive episode from The Record Centre!   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)

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'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  

This week on the show, we fend off late-night hooligans to talk to the great YVES JARVIS! (formerly Un Blonde) Otherwise known as Jean-Sebastien Audet, we learn the wisdom of watching and learning from reality shows, the psychological zen of Kanye West, and the long-term harm of living under the stairs.

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!

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 Be

We're back from summer vacation with a doozy of an episode! In this double-stuffed episode, 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 D

This week, we interview LA band GUN OUTFIT! We talk about the delicate art of dealing with kids at art galleries, the unglamorous life of a Hollywood extra, and the best driving music! Plus, the band picks a set of sun-drenched classics!   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 - You Got Something Linda Hargrove - All Alone in Austin Silly Sisters - Silver Whistle

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

This week on the show, we interview Jarrad of bubblegum punk band TOUGH AGE! Jarrad 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