City Slang

Emmanuel and Travis are back in the studio! They play a set of NON-STOP HITS, including new and weird tunes, and sets inspired by the Not Dead Yet festival and the Fall Down Get Down festival! PLUS, check out our new logo by Michael Haddad! And keep your eyez on the horizon for the upcoming CITY SLANG ZINE ISSUE #1! Tell yr friends! Listen to these crazy tracks: All Dogs - All Dogs 7” - Dummy Audacity - Butter Knife - Dancing Under Soft LightAverage Times - Average Times - PopsicleHunters - Hunters - Narcissist Kremlin - Drunk In The Gulag - Steel CaseProxy - Police Car 7” - Police CarAsile - Kitchissippi Toxique - Haute-TensionS.H.I.T. - Demo 2012 - Feeding Time Big Eyes - Almost Famous - Wanted Sometimes Octagrape - Red UFO - Real LightFake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing - Green ChartreuseWage Theft - Demo - Burn Yr Bra/JockstrapTough Age - Tough Age - Seahorse Steve Adamyk Band - Monterrey 7” - Front to BackNervous Talk - Introductions 7” - IntroductionsTranzmitors - Busy Singles - Between Plane

Andy March of CROSSS and Craft Singles tells us about nearly blowing up a car in the mountains of BC, an ancient lathe cutter, and CROSSS and their bittersweet trip to this summer's Sled Island festival! Plus, a music tribute to THE BEST SHOW ON WFMU! CROSSS - Obsidian Spectre - Sacred Cow - 2:30 CROSSS - Craft Single - Mountain King - 4:15Cousins - Khyber Compilation - Khyber - 1:49CROSSS - Craft Single - Bones Brigade - 3:57CROSSS - CROSSS/ Un Blond - Saccharine - 6:48Pink Faeries - Total Energy Records compilation ‘Do It: Rare Live and Studio Recordings (1969 – 1971) - Do It - 3:00Sweet - Action single - Action - 3:32GG Allin - You Die When You Die - 1:36Big Dipper - Droogs split - Jet - 3:48 Anamai Altar Coals single - Altar Coals - 3:13Paul Jacobs - Drug Theatres - Sharp Dress 3:19The Pink Noise - Greedy Heart - Greedy Heart - 5:08

Garett and Raymond of THE FAMINES join us to talk about food trucks, #bangersrevisited, and a party foul that nearly ended in DEATH! Plus a set pulled from the best of Garett's record collection, and the weirdest tunes from Canada and beyond! Featuring tunes from: The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Free Love is a Sales Technique The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - The First World War The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - I Like Some of the Things You Do Bad Brains - Bad Brains - Sailin On The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Gimme Some Numbers The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Faux Famous New Swears - Satan Loves You Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 - Cornucopia Snake apartment - Paint the Walls - Paint the Walls Beastie Boys - Aglio E Olio - You Catch a Bad One Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard - Violent school Scattered Clouds - EP - Charismatic, Self Indulgent, Self Obsessed EXPWY - Deep Joy - Erect a Southern Gate Hag Face - HAG FACE - Brat Lou reed

HSY joins us in a haunted jail to share spooky ghost stories and talk about Frankensteins! Our interview nearly goes off the rails when it gets crashed by Doomsquad, Petra Glynt, and a haunted tour! SPOOOOOKY! Plus, Emmanuel plays a set of Craft Singles, including a favourite fromYellowteeth (RIP). And hear these most excellent tunes: HSY - HSY / Das Rad split tape - ScratchHSY - EP - Milk ChugHSY - EP - WafflesDoomsquad - Doomsquad EP - OvooHSY - EP - Tartar MouthPanache - Vie de velours - Léa dans les magazinesQuaker Parents - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Rubber MatchThe You Are Minez - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Oh SidneyYellowteeth - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Explore ScandinaviaKent State - The Wrong Side of History - Behind Closed DoorsSuspect - Suspect - Tyranny of The DesertWhite Lung - Blow It South 7” - Blow It SouthPetra Glynt - Of This Land - Of This Land

TEENANGER talk about Rob Ford's best moments, staying at Tom Cochrane's ranch, and the time THE SOUPCANS dropped acid in New York! Plus songs from the Hand Drawn Dracula Nirvana tribute and tons o' hits! Teenanger - Fright - Bank Account Teenanger - Frights - Cops (But Not) Teenanger - Singles Don't $ell - Singles Don't $ell Teenanger - Singles Don't $ell - Teenanger Teenanger - Milkin' It - Very Ape Milk Lines - Milkin' It - Sappy HSY - Milkin' It - Moist Vagina Skinny Kids - Demo - Sandalwood & Peppermint The #1s - Sharon - Sharon The Moas - The Moas - Mine Is A Mess Rat Stab - Demo - Mangel Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling - I Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram - Brotherhood of the Ram Hooded Fang - Milkin' It - Tourettes

Old and Weird have a few drinks during band practice and talk to us about getting in trouble with the police, and leather goods, and give a crush talk! Plus, Ryan of CROSSS crashes the interview! Emmanuel plays songs that are both old and include the word "weird"! Plus, hear these tunes! Old and Weird - Craft Single - Fan SongOld and Weird - Judy Cool - All of My FriendsOld and Weird - Judy Cool - Judy CoolOld and Weird - Life's Tough Not Really - Monster DazeCrosss - Obsidian Sphere - Smoke Moon - Moon - Stained GlassHeaven for Real - Wanton - Want OnNap Eyes - Four More Songs - A Stolen BoyMonomyth - Monomyth - Hiroshima Crime - San Francisco's Still Doomed - Rockin' WeirdMDC - Millions of Dead Cops - My Family Is A Little WeirdIggy Pop - Lust For Life - Some Weird SinWeirdos - 7" - We Got The Neutron BombWeed - Deserve - Gun ShyFUZZ - FUZZ - What's In My Head

Tunes, tunes, tunes! We play the best new records, including hits off the labels Mammoth Cave, Fixture Records, Perdu, and Buzz! Plus a few questions for JAG of the band WTCHS! Hear songs by Weaves, Das Rad, HSY, WTCHS, Tropical Popsicle, LAMBS, Disappears, Crystal Stilts, Gold, Feel Alright, Nervous Talk, Free Love Fenner, Sheer Agony, Lantern, and Jeans Boots!

Eric McQuiggan of the band KING'S QUEST and the video game collective DIRTY RECTANGLES talks to Travis about the most rock and roll moments in video game history! Listen to great punk rock NES soundtracks! Thrill to the Journey arcade machine! SKATE OR DIE! MANIAC MANSION! DICK DALE AND ROCKET JOCKEY! Plus, hear tunes from Mi-Sex, King's Quest, Fucking Werewolf ASSO, TV Freaks, The Victims, The Misfits, Swearin', Sans AIDS, Cleopatra and The Nile, Chevalier Avant Garde, The Void, Dick Dale, Golden Earring, and tons of low-bit classics!

KETAMINES vs TOUGH AGE! Two bands face off about drugs, self-loathing, and bein' tough! Hear tunes from Tough Age, Korean Gut, Ketamines, Viet Cong, Paul Jacobs, Pink Wine, King's Quest, F Hood, Soko, and Hoover Party!

COUSINS join us from their touring station wagon to talk about burritos across the world! Hear songs from Cousins, Yussuf Jerusalem, Young Lions, Young Wasteners, The Backhomes, Bent Shapes, The Icarus Line, and Burro!

Ken Cheppaikode of DIRTNAP RECORDS joins us to talk about the label turning 14! Find out how much Ken weighed when he was 14, and how many fights he got into at Black Flag shows! We play some favourite tunes from the Dirtnap back catalogue, and new and weird tunes from ALL OVER THE PLACE! Hear songs from Marked Men, Mind Spiders, The Exploding Hearts, The Briefs, The White Wires, Steve Adamyk Band, Mean Jeans, Big Eyes, Night Birds, Ty Segall, Hsy, Mystics, Snooker Emporium, All Dogs, and Tennis!

TIMMY VULGAR and co. of HUMAN EYE talk to us about Detroit, keepin' a record store ticking, and miserable suburban crusty punks! Plus new songs from Canadian weirdos, Australian weirdos, and more!

Designer turned rockstar MIKE KROL joins us to talk about buying fans, his signature sandwich, and his embarrassing ska past! We play a set of his killer pop songs, including a rare tape release! Plus a set of songs from bands played ARBORETUM FEST this weekend! Hear tunes from Mike Krol, Steve Adamyk Band, Sonic Avenues, Male Nurse, New Swears, Boyhood, Roberta Bondar, Mass, and Hunters!

This week, Emmanuel interviews Ottawa’s AVERAGE TIMES! They tell  us about Shitty Dad wine, working at Shmal-Mart, and their upcoming tape on BRUISED TONGUE! Plus a set of classic Ottawa tracks from GOING GAGA records, some lost classics from the 80s, and new weird sounds as usual! Hear tunes from Average Times, Savage Crimes, Uranium Comeback, Fucking Machines, Million Dollar Marxists, Diane, Pop Crimes, Gas Rag, Bad Sports, Elton Motello, The Sound, Hüsker Dü, The Figs, Crystal Swells, and Cheap Time! 

Allie Hanlon AKA PEACH KELLI POP (and The White Wires!) joins us on the show to talk about why dog poop smells, how she'd party on mars, and how to bake the PERFECT BANANA BREAD! Listen up! Plus, hear the most CRUSHING SET OF MUSIC EVER PLAYED ON RADIO! And some other tunes! Hear songs from Peach Kelli Pop, Peach Kelli Punk, The White Wires, Red Kross, Mike Krol, Home Blitz, Cryptomaniacs, Predator, Whore Paint, Hunx and His Punx, Capital 6, and Gal Gracen!

CITY SONGS! This week, a massive set of classic tunes about CITIES! From Kill City to Spook City USA. Plus brand new weirdo and punk rock tunes from across Canada. Hear tunes from Nick Lowe, The Parting Gifts, Rocket From The Crypt, The Spits, Sweet Janes, Insubordinates, The Only Ones, Tyvek, Hot Snakes, The Kids, The Misfits, The Modernettes, Bonnie Doon, Average Times, Aube, Microdot, Toronto Homicide Squad, Sad Boys, and White Poppy!

Garage psych-os MONOMYTH tell us about their worst jobs, what’s playing in the van, and then trash talk every band from Halifax! We play all bands trashed by MONOMYTH, and put together sets to celebrate 25 years of Sub Pop! Hear tracks from Monomyth, Nap Eyes, Each Other, Old & Weird, Scratch Acid, Wipers, Sonic Youth, Crosss, Quaker Parents, Quivers, and Violence!

We interview Adam and Tony of Vancouver’s NEEDLES//PINS! Things got a bit sloppy at Ottawa Explosion during this interview, and the guys discuss high school girlfriends, hobo tattoos, and hating Henry Rollins! Emmanuel and Travis play some excellent Vancouver punk, and a set of weirdo tunes to top things off! Plus songs from Needles//Pins, Strange Attractor, Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians, The Modernettes, Crabe, Whatever Brains, Dead Ghosts, Cherry Bones, Mikal Cronin, The Thermals, and Ovlov!

Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs interview US while we interview THEM! Hear the madness, including talk of Rob Ford, tin foil hats, and shawarma!  Sam interviews Emmanuel and Travis for his radio show PART OF THE NOISE, and we tell a story about Paul Lawton (The Ketamines) almost dying on the radio! PLUS, a preview of next week's drunk interview with NEEDLES//PINS! Hear tracks from Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs, Hooded Fang, Contingent, Zen Mystery Fogg, Shannon and The Clams, Warm Soda, UN, Vampires, and Manipulation!