Festival special!

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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 This Place 7" - Out of This Place
Monomyth - Craft Single - Trash Day
Sheer Mag - 7" - Point Breeze
Earth Girls - Demo - Obey

The Famines - 2x7” - Gimme Some Numbers
Tyvek - On Triple Beams - Wayne County Roads
Fist City - It’s 1983, Grow Up! - Boring Kids
Tough Age - S/T - I Waste Too Much Time On Myself
Moss Lime - July First - July First

Teenanger - Frights - Bank Account
Weaves - Single - Motorcycle
Walrus - Glam Returns - Banger
Vulva Culture - Rolling in the Deep - Human Garbage

Originally aired March 23, 2015

POTTY MOUTH!

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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 in the studio! We play new tunes, a split special, and 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 - Slutever x Girlpool Fall Tour Split Tape - Stomach Ache

Girlpool - Slutever x Girlpool Fall Tour Split Tape - This Place

Low Culture - Low Culture/Needles//Pins Split 7” - Reservations

Needles//Pins - Low Culture/Needles//Pins Split 7” - Hateful

Dope Body - Lifer - Hired Gun

Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Then You’ll Know

The Lauras - The Lauras - Kill You

Dirty Beaches - STATELESS - Pacific Ocean

ALL OTTAWA EXPLOSION SPECIAL!

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OTTAWA EXPLOSION SPECIAL! We’ve got a spotlight on bands playing the OTTAWA EXPLOSION FESTIVAL, the annual festival full of beer, bands, and BEST BUDS put on by our very own Emmanuel Sayer!

For more info on Ottawa Explosion and buying tickets go to the OTTAWA EXPLOSION SITE! And get on it, because the party starts TOMORROW!

The tunes this week:

Feral Trash - Unreleased - Obey
Big Dick - S/T LP - Schoolyard Violence
Low Culture - 7" - Travel Song
Needles//Pins - Shamebirds - Shamebirds
New Swears - Junkfood Forever, Bedtime Never - Midnight Lovers

The Mandates - S/T LP - She’s Walking Over
Average Times - S/T LP - Summer Nights
First Base - S/T LP - She’s Boy Crazy
Pink Wine - S/T - Better Half
Mother’s Children - Lemon - Break It To Me

The Marked Men - Fix My Brain - A Little Time
Steve Adamyk Band - S/T LP - Hollowed
Sonic Avenues - Mistakes - Wasted Summer
The White Wires - 7" - Don’t Call Me When You’re Ill

Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right - Scum. Rise!
Tweens - Tweens Be Mean
Primitive Hearts - Split with Pookie & the Poodlez - Last Chance
The Creeps - Eulogies - Ghost

The Yips - Air Loom - Repeater
Roberta Bondar - Hiss - Salt

HOSEHEAD RECORDS! FIRST BASE!

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Mike of HOSEHEAD records and FIRST BASE stops by to tell us how he muscles bands into releasing records! We play some of the finest tunes from HOSEHEAD and find out the biggest HOSEHEAD fuck up! 

Plus our tape segment, and these killer tunes: 

First Base - Party Party Party - Party Party Party 
The White Wires - II - I Can Tell 
Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs - All By Myself - All By Myself 
Average Times - Average Times - Do The Dance 
TV Freaks - Leeches 7” - Leeches 

Pink Wine - Tape - Persistent Cops 
Ketamines - So Hot! 7” - So Hot! 
Steve Adamyk Band - Monterrey 7” - Monterrey 

VCR - VCR - Dirty Girl/City Boy 
The Lorettas - Fuck The Lorettas - Teenage Hell 

The Dying Arts - The Dying Arts EP - Scratch 
HSY - single - Cyber Bully 
Owls - Two - I’m Surprised 

Needles//Pins - Shamebirds - You Only Call Me When You’re Drunk 
The Lad Mags - Trick - Trick - 1:59 CC 
La Femme - Le Podium #1 - Sur La Planche

THE CITY SLANG LIVE EPISODE FEATURING EVERYONE!

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LIVE EPISODE THIS WEEK! Emmanuel and Travis teamed up with BRUISED TONGUE to party with a WHO’S WHO of Ottawa luminaries at Raw Sugar! We played tunes for three hours, and this week’s episode is one hour of PEAK LIVE RADIO!

Featuring LUKE of WHITE WIRES and BOYHOOD! Famous zinester ALANNA WHY! LESLEY of BONNIE DOON! And MORE, MORE MORE!

Hear these tunes:

Feel Alright - Oahu Ohio
Hackamore Brick - Oh! Those Sweet Bananas

Roky Erikson and The Aliens - Bloody Hammer
The Deadly Snakes - Real Rock and Roll Tonight

Cold Warps - Stuck On an Island
Vacation - Running Back

Needles//Pins - Outta This Place
Steve Adamyk Band - Hate Myself
Masshysteri - Istiden
Spectres - Pattern Recognition

Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
White Wires - Don’t Call Me When You’re Ill
Royal Headache - Honey Joy

THE BEST OF 2013!

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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

NOT DEAD YET! FALL DOWN GET DOWN!

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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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NEEDLES//PINS!

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!

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Originally aired: July 8 2013.