CHASTITIY BELT joins us at the Ottawa Explosion weekend to do the CITY SLANG questionnaire! The nicest band in all of Seattle refuses to trash talk, design leopard print costumes, and survive falling off stages! Plus a set of discovered-in-Halifax tunes, and new releases! Hear these songs: Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Drone Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Trapped Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - Why Try Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - On The Floor Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home - The ...
Jul 17, 2015•57 min
Travis puts GUANTANOMA BAYWATCH through the CITY SLANG questionnaire! They give some of the wackiest answers yet, and tell the story of the time NOBUNNY fixed their car with an inflatable clown! Plus brand new tunes and a sneak peak at our CHASTITY BELT episode! Hear these tunes: Guantanamo Baywatch - Oh Rats! 7" - Oh Rats! Guantanamo Baywatch - Chest Crawl - Chest Crawl Guantanamo Baywatch - Chest Crawl - Pina Colada Guantanamo Baywatch - Darling… It's Too Late - Mr. Rebel Guantanamo Baywatch -...
Jul 09, 2015•58 min
Jun 29, 2015•57 min
We caught up with Edmonton’s RHYTHM OF CRUELTY to talk about American snacks, green onion cakes, and the wildest tapes they’re listening to on tour!
Jun 29, 2015•59 min
Travis and Emmanuel are late for their show! The duo struggles to piece together killer tunes while Travis fumbles his keys and ties his shoes together! WILL THEY MAKE IT TIME?! Listen to find out! Hear these songs: Martha - Split 7" - The Historian Martha - Split 7" - Dom Kan Inte Hora Musiken - 2:10 Benny The Jet Rodriguez - Split 7" - In Love - 2:00 Benny The Jet Rodriguez - Split 7" - Wish You Were Beer - 2:53 Flesh World - The Wild Animals in My Life - Poolside Boys - 2:40 Dodgers - Bombshe...
May 15, 2015•1 hr
This week we bring you an all-time epic episode! We hit a gold mine of hilarious dirt when we interviewed NERVOUS TALK ’s Joel Butler! We use his wild tour stories to see how much his friends in TOUGH AGE and FIST CITY know about him, in a gameshow we call YOU DON’T KNOW JACK ABOUT JOEL! Tall tales of daredevil lawnmower jumps and B.A. JOHNSTON’ s van ensues! Plus a tape segment, new songs, and more! We play these tunes: Nervous Talk - S/T - Different Person Nervous Talk - S/T - Introductions Ne...
May 08, 2015•59 min
CITY SLANG moves to a new timeslot! Listen live on CHUO between 4-5pm on Wednesdays! PRIME TIME! We finish the season off by playing killer tunes, celebrate the weather, and a cassette segment! We play these songs: Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma - Peking Spring Rites of Spring - End on End - Spring Eric's Trip - Spring - 3:04 Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - Springtime Metz - II - Wait in Line Snooty Garbagemen - Snooty Garbagem...
Apr 29, 2015•58 min
Emmanuel and Travis nearly get replaced by commercial radio DJs! Plus funding drive, show highlights from the last season, and an all-time classic bleepoff! Support CHUO during funding drive by heading to http://chuo.fm/funding-drive-2/
Apr 21, 2015•1 hr
Jam-packed show this week! First up, SCREAMING FEMALES talk about saving muskrats in Ottawa, belt collections, and pick a set of killer tunes! Then, ANAMAI gives us an ultra chill interview, gives tips on relaxing, and definitely talks about ghosts again!
Apr 15, 2015•58 min
Festival special this week! We spotlight artists playing Ottawa Explosion , Lawnya Vawnya , and Kazoofest ! Plus, a highlights from our OTTAWA EXPLOSION interviews, and a special set of music from Natalie of NOTS ! Hear these tunes: Aquarian Blood - 7” - Savage Mind Giorgio Murderer - Primitive World - Primitive World Golden Pelicans - S/T - Turqoise & Silver / New Jersey Glueams - 7” - Strassen White Lung - Deep Fantasy - Sycophant Kappa Chow - Kappa Chow - Bang Bang Needles//Pins - Out of ...
Mar 25, 2015•1 hr 3 min
Memphis band NOTS joins us on the show this week! We talk to singer and guitarist Natalie about playing on morning TV, the best places to party in Memphis, and photoshopping Meemaw’s cat! Plus a special RIP Mammoth Cave set, we play an entire tape by the Coneheads, and new tunes! Hear these songs: Nots - We Are Nots - Reactor Nots - We Are Nots - Decadence Nots - We Are Nots - Black Mold Nots - We Are Nots - Static Nots - We Are Nots - Insect Eyes Nots - We Are Nots - Get Along Nots - We Are Not...
Mar 19, 2015•57 min
CITY SLANG returns with an hour JAM PACKED with killer tunes! Emmanuel and Travis shut up this week and let the music do the talking. We play these tunes: Clean Girls - Expensive Tastes split - Portion Control Vulture Shit - Expensive Tastes split - Mouth Breather (Jesus Lizard Cover) The Minneapolis Uranium Club Band - Demo - Rafter Man HSY - Sally 7” - Sally Cultural Abuse - Spray Paint the Dog - Perfect Light Makthaverskan - Witness 7” - Witness Mourn - Mourn - Silver Gold Faith Healer - Cosm...
Mar 04, 2015•55 min
Emmanuel catches up with Montreal’s PALE LIPS to play pinball, talk about boys, and misinterpret lyrics! Plus a TAPE SEGMENT on Not Normal tapes, new releases from Craft Singles, and tunes from bands playing OTTAWA IMPLOSION VOL. 2 !! We play these tunes: Pale Lips - Demo - Shim Sham Shimmy Pale Lips - Got a Sweet Tooth 7” - Sweet Dreams Pale Lips - Got a Sweet Tooth 7” - Candy Song Pale Lips - Demo - Rock n’ Roll Dipshit Pale Lips - Got a Sweet Tooth 7” - Soda Kat The Cute Lepers - Smart Access...
Feb 11, 2015•56 min
Graeme Stewart of THE LAURAS previously appeared on CITY SLANG as a member of Monomyth, but this time we make him answer the CITY SLANG questionnaire! We get to the bottom of his show amnesia, and hear the mildest curse word ever not censored on CITY SLANG! Plus, Emmanuel's new hair-brained theme: THE NAME GAME! We play all name bands! Hear these tunes: The Lauras - The Lauras - Cloudy Weight The Lauras - The Lauras -Lazy The Lauras - The Lauras -Home The Lauras - The Lauras - Duncan The Lauras ...
Jan 30, 2015•57 min
Subscribe to the podcast ! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram! Don’t listen on an empty stomach, it’s the FOOD EPISODE! Travis plays an all ice cream set, Emmanuel plays food punk classics, and our hosts get into a full-fledged FOOD FIGHT! We play classic CITY SLANG food moments with BRAZILIAN MONEY, COUSINS, VIET CONG, LOWER, and MERCHANDISE! PLUS hear the all-time weird lost new wave classic, FOOD FIGHT, by the Village People! We play these tunes: Descendents - Fat EP - I Like Food Delta 5 - M...
Jan 20, 2015•57 min
Katie of PRIESTS joins us to talk about hair cair, a very strange performance on the Chris Gethard show more! Meanwhile, Travis fails to get dirt on Ian Svenonius and flunks being a Taylor Swift fan! Emmanuel plays a DC punk set, and we play tons of new tunes as usual! This week features: Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power - Doctor Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power - Modern Love/ No Weapon Priests - Tape Two - Leave Me Alone Priests - Radiation 7” - Radiation Nation ...
Jan 13, 2015•1 hr
Old-man Emmanuel and old-man Travis broadcast from THE FUTURE and remember the best interviews of 2014!
Jan 05, 2015•57 min
Old-man Emmanuel and old-man Travis broadcast from THE FUTURE and remember the best interviews of 2014!
Jan 05, 2015•1 hr
This week, Alex Zhang Hungtai of DIRTY BEACHES and LAST LIZARD records some answers to burning questions, including a description of performing at David Lynch's bar that's straight out of a David Lynch movie! plus learn about accepting culture through food, and the appeal of dirty old man literature. Emmanuel plays a 90s set, a third language set, and Travis plays a tape segment! Hear these tunes: Dirty Beaches - Water Park OST - Water Park Theme Dirty Beaches - Drifters - Elli Last Lizard - Unr...
Dec 17, 2014•59 min
ACTION PACKED SHOW THIS WEEK! We interview Montreal’s MOSS LIME in the back of a car, and find out about their worst toilet memories and secret art collections! Then, an interview with Toronto’s BLONDE ELVIS about their rampant alcohol abuse! Plus Emmanuel and Travis put themselves through the CITY SLANG questionnaire and talk about their worst jobs ever! We play these tunes: Moss Lime - July First - Ice Cream Sandwiches Moss Lime - July First - July First Moss Lime - July First - Calabria 2014 ...
Dec 02, 2014•57 min
Lesley of BONNIE DOON interviews HSY! Two classic CITY SLANG guests that that guest great together! Plus, Emmanuel plays bands from Not Dead Yet fest! Alanna plays braaaaaaand new tunes! Travis sends in a rippin' hardcore set. Hear these tunes: The Yips - Air Loom - Point Dume - 2:23 - CC Bonnie Doon - An Affair to Remember - 2:02 - CC HSY - Single - Cyber Bully - 3:24 - CC The Beverleys - Single - Dreams - 2:37 - CC Radioactivity – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – World of Pleasure – 1:55 Missing Monumen...
Nov 25, 2014•58 min
Garrett Johnson of BRAZILIAN MONEY talks to us about cliff-side shows, freaking out frat bros, and offers a surprisingly even-handed analysis of Macaulay Culkin's PIZZA UNDERGOUND! Plus we talk about the most dangerous show we've been to, and our first cassettes! We play these tunes: Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Why Am I Still Standing Here? Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Give Up That Dog Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Then You'll Know Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - We Coul...
Nov 11, 2014•59 min
Our New York City Slang correspondent sends in an interview with POTTY MOUTH from CMJ! Learn the latest BREAKING NEWS on their nail polish regiment! Plus, the whole gang is ing the studio! We play new tunes, a split special, an talk about our favourite split records! We play these tunes: Potty Mouth - Hell Bent - Wish List Ovlov - 4-Way Split 7” - Ohmu Shell Heliotropes - A Constant Sea - Early in the Morning Cellphone - Excellent Condition - Bad Medusa Chocolat - Tss Tss - Apocalypse Slutever -...
Nov 04, 2014•1 hr
This week we talk to Annie from NEW FRIES and she gives a SHOCKING answer when asked which Simpsons character she is! Then puts the kids to bed and listen to the SPOOKTACULAR Halloween episode of CITY SLANG! Hear these tunes: New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Plexiglass New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Moonlight & Valentino (The Movie) New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Goberth, Roberth New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Uncle Carmin Cruise Ship Cuba Moss Lime - Cassette EP - Ice Cream Sandwich Girl ...
Oct 28, 2014•1 hr 4 min
Follow us on Twitter ! Carson of Merchandise and Anton of Lower face off in a parking lot outside an arcade! Anton and Carson teach us about why music interviews suck and the dreamland of Denmark! Plus our censoring skills get put to the test when we learn about the worst Spanish and Danish curse words! Plus we’ve got a FULL HOUSE in the studio, and Alanna, Travis, and Emmanuel offer up sets of new songs! Hear these tunes: Merchandise - After The End - Little Killer Lower - Seek Warmer Climes - ...
Oct 21, 2014•57 min
GET TICKETS TO THE OTTAWA IMPLOSION ! Email us at cityslangradio@gmail.com before our next episode (Oct. 13) for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the festival! This week on the show, our plans to interview the band MERCHANDISE don’t go as planned! We play a set of phone-related tunes! Plus an interview with SOLIDS , a spotlight on Ottawa implosion bands, and all the new tunes you can handle! Ex Hex - Beast - How You Got That Girl The Beverleys - Single - Hoodwink Foam - Demo - Sludge Merchan...
Oct 09, 2014•58 min
Alanna and Travis harass CITY SLANG faves NAP EYES and MONOMYTH outside a venue! They dish dirt on themselves, explain how board games work, and get to the bottom of who has more in common with Kanye West. Plus ragers from around the world, and BRUCE HAACK! Tunes this week: Nap Eyes - Whine of The Mystic - Dark Creedence Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia - Pac Ambition Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia - Patsy Nap Eyes - Whine of The Mystic - Delirium & Persecution Paranoia Iceage - Plowing Into The...
Sep 30, 2014•57 min
Emmanuel returns from globe-trotting with tons of vinyl! Travis makes fun of Steve Albini and plays nasty new tunes! We play UK punk, international thrashers, and Canadian weirdos! Plus a sneak peak of our interview with NAP EYES and MONOMYTH! Shellac - Dude Incredible - Riding Bikes Musk - Unreleased - Last Stand Yes, I'm Leaving - Mission Bulb - Endless Mind Good Throb - Fuck Off - Acid House Thee Nodes - Thee Nodes/Naughty Girls split - Living Like a Corpse VCR - 7” Beer Shit Night/Pizza Part...
Sep 24, 2014•57 min
Travis and Alanna run rampant! Classy jazz interludes, dance music, and a peak at a couple DJ sets the City Slang crew is doing this week. In the second half, a spotlight on Buzz Records and an interview with Anamai of HSY and more! So Cow - The Long Con - Get Down Off Of That Thing - 1:48 Total Control - Typical System - 2 Less Jacks - 2:44 SGNLS - II - Love Go's Running - 5:03 The Effects - Blister single - Blister - 2:31 Young Governor - Bloodstains Across Ontario - I Wanna Girl From Wawa - 2...
Sep 17, 2014•58 min
Musician, producer, illustrator, animator, super nice dude CHAD VANGAALEN is on the show! Chad talks about his animated movie, his daughter’s defunct techno bands, and their strange bug powers! PLus, Chad FIRES BACK at his frienemies in VIET CONG and responds to their trash talk from EPISODE 68 ! Plus, contributor Alanna Why is in studio, and Travis talks about the greatest YouTube comment ever! IF YOU MISS THIS EPISODE IT WILL LITERALLY HAUNT YOU! Tunes this week: Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust -...
Sep 11, 2014•56 min
