BRUISED TONGUE CRASHES OUR SHOW!

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AW, DANG! Those jerks from Bruised Tongue burst into the studio and took over the show this week. They play their favourite tunes from 2013, a new track from Boyhood, and plug their dumb five-year anniversary party this weekend!

Hear these tunes:

Boyhood - Post Poc

Destruction Unit - Deep Trip - God Trip

Gary Wrong Group - Total Punk - Streets of Iron

Venom P. Stinger - Walking About

Babysitter - EYE - Angel of Death

Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion - No, Nothing, My Shelter
Mike Krol - Trust Fund - Cease and Desist

Devo - Hardcore Volume I - I’ve Been Refused 

Raspberry Bulbs - Deformed Worship - When A Lie Becomes a Truth

Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love Is The Devil - Casino Lisboa
Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love Is The Devil - ELLI

Foilakzoid - II - Trees

Warm Soda - Someone For You - Only In Your Mind
The Urinals - 100 Years of Pulchritude - Male Masturbation

KAPPA CHOW!

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Joe of KAPPA CHOW talks about the Sackville, NB music scene, Twin Peaks, and the punkest thing he’s done! Plus, Travis quizes him on the mythical creature the KAPPA, and we learn about farts, cucumbers, and the toughest member of KAPPA CHOW!

We hear a set of Sackville tunes, including unreleased tracks!

Heard these tunes:

Kappa Chow -  KC I/II - Bang Bang
Kappa Chow - Punk As Fuck 7" - Love On Me
Kappa Chow - KC I/II - Sleep The Day Away
Kappa Chow - Punk As Fuck 7" - Punk As Fuck
Kappa Chow - KC I/II - Invisible Shadow
Kappa Chow - KC I/II - Save Your Opinion

Astral Gunk - unreleased - Anti-Love
Zachary Slax - unreleased - Rat City
Best Fiends - unreleased - Puppy Love 
The Mouthbreathers - V/A Rat King 1 - Same Words
Yellowteeth - V/A Rat King 1 - Boy + Girl

Faux Fur - Faux Fur - Burnt
Un Blonde - Un Blonde - Spine
Long Weekends - Tell It To My Heart - The Best You Ever Had

Childbirth - It’s a Girl! - Sister Wives
Monster Treasure - Monster Treasure - I don’t Giv'a Shit

TV FREAKS!

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TJ, Burger, and Dave of the Hamilton’s great TV FREAKS tell us how to spend one night in Hamilton, talk cover art, and buying candy! Hear TV FREAKS’ set of hand-selected classics from Hamilton, including SIMPLY SAUCER!

Plus we play these tunes:

TV Freaks - Destroy Music Start Your Own Band - Medidation

TV Freaks - TV Freaks - Coworker Blues
TV Freaks - TV Freaks - Street Rat
TV Freaks - Two - Knife
TV Freaks - Two - Pusher

TV Freaks - 7" EP - Freelancer
TV Freaks - TV Freaks - Only Child

Epicycle - You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 - Residential Area
Dennis Most - Agitate Me! - There is a Mall
The Gories - The Shaw Tapes - Charm Bag

The Ruby Plumes - Prairie Sessions - Rock City

Adam and the Madams - Death By a Million Splinters - Death By a Million Splinters

Born Wrong - Holding Cell - Loujack Cafe
Black Baron - Divine Chains - The Twisting Fate of Future Years
Sailboats Are White - Turbo 2 - Monster Helicopter
Snakecharmer - Crispy Meat Demo - Self Immolate
Magic Shadows - Sunburned Mind 7" - Sunburned Mind

Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited - Bullet Proof Nothing

JAY REATARD TRIBUTE!

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Emmanuel remembers the great JAY REATARD on the anniversary of his death. We play tracks from every point in his career, including rare 7"s and side projects. RIP, JAY. 

Travis plays tracks from Vermont feminist label STICK SHIFT, and new releases from BRUISED TONGUE!

A killer first show back, filled with these tracks:

The Reatards - Get Real Stupid 7" - You Ain’t Fun No Mo
Angry Angles - CROWDS 7" - Crowds
Lost Sounds - Rat Brains & Microchips - Blackcoats/Whitefear

Final Solutions - Eye Don’t Like You 7" - Eye Don’t Like You
Bad Times - Self-Titled - Streets Of Iron
Terror Visions - World of Shit - Medicating Dreams

Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You 7" -  Hammer I Miss You
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions - My Shadow
Jay Reatard - 7" I Know Place

Jay Reatard - See Saw/Screaming Hand 7" - Screaming Hand
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall - Faking It

Potty Mouth - First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast - Damage
Breadline - First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast - Peroxotine Death
Paths - Clarion Call - Waves

Holy Cobras - Dead Bodies Float in Space - Drugstore
Heavy Chains - 7" - Liver Lips
Old and Weird - Moon/Old and Weird - Lamp

Kappa Chow - Kappa Chow - Bang Bang
Monomyth - Craft Single - Trash Day

THE BEST OF 2013!

BEST OF 2013! Emmanuel and Travis re-cap the best CITY SLANG iterviews and tunes from 2013.

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Happy New Year, ya jerks!

Episodes feature these tunes:

Episode 47

Dinos Boys - Play Dead 7" - Play Dead
Boyhood - Afterburners Vol. 2 - Acting Mean Uh
Boyhood - When I’m Hungry - Thailand
Cold Warps - Tour Demos - Black Oil
Cold Warps - Cold Warps - I Got Opinions, Dude
Cousins - Duz/Cuz - Nans
Human Eye - It Came From The Sky - Alien Creeps
Needles//Pins - 12:34 - I don’t Mind
Needles//Pins - Out of This Place 7" - Out of This Place
Monomyth - King, Does This Not Please You (Behold The Power) - Cigarette
Peach Kelli Pop - V/A Bloodstains Across Ontario - Panchito Blues
Mike Krol - I Hate Jazz - Like A Star
Mike Krol - Ephemeroptera No. 2 - My Country Tis Of Thee
Teenanger - Fright - Bank Account
Average Times - Average Times - She Knows

Episode 46

Teledrome - Double Vision 7” - Dial Tone
Low Culture - Screens - Screens
Boyhood - EP - Heat
The Famines - The Complete Collected Singles - Hi Hi Hi
Steve Adamyk Band - Third - Had A Heart Attack
Big Dick - S/T - Schoolyard Violence
Babysitter - Eye - Talkin’ Bout The New Generation
Roberta Bondar - Hiss - Salt
The Nymphets - 7" - Bekki-Anne
Nun Un - Lineage - Recognition Blues
METZ - 7" - Negative Space

NICK FLANAGAN OF WRONG HOLE AND BRUTAL KNIGHTS!

NICK FLANAGAN of COMEDY, BRUTAL KNIGHTS, and WRONG HOLE talks to us about hair care, his gross injuries, and gets hip with Ottawa and its strip clubs!

Plus, Travis works out some elevator-related issues after getting stuck in an elevator for an hour with an ALL-ELEVATOR-SET!

Plus hear these tunes:

Brutal Knights - Blown 2 Completion - Take Breaks
Brutal Knights - Feast of Shame - Grow Up Throw Up
Brutal Knights - Feast of Shame - We Have A Website
Brutal Knights - Life Ain’t Cool 7" - Fake Youth
Brutal Knights - Life Ain’t Cool 7" - Life Ain’t Cool
Teen Crud Combo - Judgement Night Soundtrack Part II - Wash Dish
Wrong Hole - Unreleased - What Is A Car?

Plastic Idols - I.U.D. 7" - Sophistication
The Lepers - S/T - Christmas In Reverse

Resurrection Band - Mommy Don’t Love Daddy Any More - Elevator Muzik
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators - Thru The Rhythm
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Elevate Me Later
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim - Levitate Me

The White Wires - WWII - And Then You Told Me
Kappa Chow - 7" - I Want Out
Abject Pax - 7" - Selfish Hands

Average Times - Average Times - She Knows
HSY - HSY - Tartar Mouth
Tough Age - Open It Up

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WEED!

Travis fucked up the interview recording with Will Anderson of WEED, who put out one of his favourite records of the year! He desperately tries to recreate it with Will’s friends Anna and Vance on the line! Hear them talk about dirty dish duty, Seinfeld, and a near-murder experience on a train! 

Plus French tunes, and new tunes from DAGGER EYES! 

Weed - Deserve - Silent Partner 
Weed - Deserve - Hollowed Out 
Weed - Deserve - Granted 
Weed - Gun Control EP - Amber 

Alex Bourque - Dog years EP - Cut The Strings 
The Soupcans - Parasite Brain - Parasite Brain 
White Poppy - White Poppy - Wear Me Away 

Les Guenilles - Zéro pis une barre - La scène locale 
Cheval Fou - Pété Rare - Code S 
Panache - Vie de Velours - Fils d’un fils 

First Base - First Base - That’s My Girlfriend 
Los - 7” - Ghost 
The Dagger Eyes - Reaper - Cutting Edge 
The Dagger Eyes - Reaper - New Wave 
The Dagger Eyes - Reaper - The Rat

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TONIGHT ON THE SHOW! Travis interviews Vancouver’s WEED. Tune in at 9pm on CHUO or subscribe to the podcast. 

But first: listen to guitarist/vocalist Will Anderson’s reaction when Travis blames him for a speeding ticket he received while listening to WEED.

SETH SMITH OF DOG DAY!

SETH SMITH of DOG DAY and YORODEO is on the show! We talk about his dog Woofy, his surreal horror movie LOWLIFE, and share an extensive conversation about his chickens.

Plus, a DOG DAY GIVEAWAY! Give us an email (even if you’re listening online) and you’ll be eligible to win the new DOG DAY album! 

Plus, hear these tunes:

Dog Day - Night Group - Lydia
Dog Day - Concentration - Happiness
Dog Day - Fade Out - Wasted
Dog Day - Fade Out - Sandwich
Dog Day - Fade Out - Leave Your Body
Dog Day - Deformer - Eurozone

EAGULLS - EAGULLS - Coffin
Dyscontrol - Lies 7" - LIES
ANTI… - Demo - Στρατός ελλάδα εξουσία

Monomyth - Monomyth - Hiroshima
Heaven For Real - WANTON - Want On

Hawkeyes - Poison Slows You Down - The Howling Damned

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RIP FUN BOY CLUB HOUSE!

NEW TUNES GALORE! Hear the best new releases before the new year, plus a set of Craft Single favourites, and a tribute to the FUN BOY CLUB HOUSE, home of the NEW SWEARS.

RIP Fun Boy Club House.

Crystal Stilts - Nature Noir - Spirit in Front of Me

Night Beats - Sonic Bloom - Sonic Bloom

The Obits - Taste The Diff - Bed & Bugs

Jacuzzi Boys - Hotline - Jacuzzi Boys

Solids - Off White - Blame Confusion

King Krule - Easy Easy from 6 Feet Beneath The Moon

Dog Day - Sunset - Fade Out

La Luz - It’s Alive - It’s Alive

The Ketamines - So Hot! - So Hot!

Invasions - Born On A Wave - Invasions

Freelove Fenner - Do Not Affect a Breezy Manner - Dr. D

Special Costello - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Chlorinated Lung

Old & Weird - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Minstrel Rock

Heaven For Real - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - You Are The One With The Iron Heart Device

Yellowteeth - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Repo

New Swears - New Swears - Paradise

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NOT DEAD YET! FALL DOWN GET DOWN!

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 Light
Average Times - Average Times - Popsicle
Hunters - Hunters - Narcissist

Kremlin - Drunk In The Gulag - Steel Case
Proxy - Police Car 7" - Police Car
Asile - Kitchissippi Toxique - Haute-Tension
S.H.I.T. - Demo 2012 - Feeding Time

Big Eyes - Almost Famous - Wanted Sometimes

Octagrape - Red UFO - Real Light
Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing - Green Chartreuse
Wage Theft - Demo - Burn Yr Bra/Jockstrap
Tough Age - Tough Age - Seahorse

Steve Adamyk Band - Monterrey 7" - Front to Back
Nervous Talk - Introductions 7” - Introductions
Tranzmitors - Busy Singles - Between Planets

Needles//Pins - Out of This Place 7" - Out of This Place

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ANDY MARCH OF CROSSS AND A BEST SHOW TRIBUTE!

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 bittersweet trip to this summer’s Sled Island festival!

Plus, a music tribute to THE BEST SHOW ON WFMU!

Featuring these tunes:

CROSSS - Obsidian Spectre - Sacred Cow
CROSSS - Craft Single - Mountain King
Cousins - Khyber Compilation - Khyber
CROSSS - Craft Single - Bones Brigade
CROSSS - CROSSS/ Un Blonde - Saccharine

Pink Faeries - Do It: Rare Live and Studio Recordings (1969 – 1971) - Do It
Sweet - Action 7" - Action
Big Dipper - Droogs split 7" - Jet

Anamai - Altar Coals single - Altar Coals
Paul Jacobs - Drug Theatres - Sharp Dress
The Pink Noise - Greedy Heart - Greedy Heart

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THE FAMINES!

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 - Rock And Roll Heart - Temporary Thing

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CITY SLANG - EPISODE 39 by Cityslang on Mixcloud

Here’s the kind of filth you can look forward to on tonight’s episode of CITY SLANG. We’ve got THE FAMINES ON THE SHOW!

HSY!

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 from Yellowteeth (RIP).

And hear these most excellent tunes:

HSY - HSY / Das Rad split tape - Scratch
HSY - EP - Milk Chug
HSY - EP - Waffles
Doomsquad - Doomsquad EP - Ovoo
HSY - EP - Tartar Mouth

Panache - Vie de velours - Léa dans les magazines
Quaker Parents - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Rubber Match
The You Are Minez - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Oh Sidney
Yellowteeth - Craft Singles Vol 3 & 4 - Explore Scandinavia

Kent State - The Wrong Side of History - Behind Closed Doors
Suspect - Suspect - Tyranny of The Desert
White Lung - Blow It South 7" - Blow It South

Petra Glynt - Of This Land - Of This Land

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TEENANGER!

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! Like these:

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

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Originally aired: Oct. 7, 2013.

OLD AND WEIRD!

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 Song
Old and Weird - Judy Cool - All of My Friends
Old and Weird - Judy Cool - Judy Cool
Old and Weird - Life’s Tough Not Really - Monster Daze
Crosss - Obsidian Sphere - Smoke

Moon - Moon - Stained Glass
Heaven for Real - Wanton - Want On
Nap Eyes - Four More Songs - A Stolen Boy
Monomyth - Monomyth - Hiroshima

Crime - San Francisco’s Still Doomed - Rockin’ Weird

MDC - Millions of Dead Cops - My Family Is A Little Weird

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life - Some Weird Sin

Weirdos - 7" - We Got The Neutron Bomb

Weed - Deserve - Gun Shy

FUZZ - FUZZ - What’s In My Head

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Originally aired: Sept 30, 2013.

Here’s the kind of language you can expect this Monday for our Old and Weird interview. Don’t let yr parents listen!

WTCHS

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, Freelove Fenner, Homeshake, Sheer Agony, Lantern, and Jeans Boots!

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Originally aired: Sept. 23 2013.

KING'S QUEST AND THE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAME PUNK!

Eric McQuiggan of the band KING’S QUEST and the video game collective DIRTY RECTANGLES talks about the most rock and roll moments in video game history!

Listen to punk-rock NES soundtracks! Thrill to the Journey arcade! Skate or Die! Maniac Mansion! MICHAEL JACKSON’S MOONWALKER!

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!

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Originally aired: September 16, 2013.