CITY SLANG

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

This week on the show we interview artist and musician CHANDRA! In the 80s a twelve-year-old Chandra fronted her very own mutant-disco, post-punk group and recorded the recently reissued cult-classic TRANSPORTATION! We talk to Chandra about her current work, helping kids to write music, and we run down a roster of the stranger characters she's encountered in her career, including Captain Kangaroo, Andy Warhol, and the not-so-strange Jennifer Garner!

We play these tunes:

Chandra - Transportation - SubwaysChandra - Transportation - OpositeChandra - Transportation - StrangerChandra - Transportation - SomethingChandra - Transportation - ConcentrationChandra - Transportation - Get it Out of Your SystemBB Cream - BB Cream - Mother NatureHuman Ceremony - Sunflower Bean - Wall WatcherWhitney - Light Upon the Lake - Golden DaysAlex G - Beach Music - Kicker

Bart - Holomew - On/OffDoomsquad - Total Time - Who Owns Noon in Sandusky?Solids - Else - Wait it OutPeach Kelli Pop - Peach Kelli Pop III - Shampoo

Legendary musician and music writer John Robb of THE MEMBRANES joins us to talk about punk rock history, taking over the towers of the world, and why more bands should have paid attention in science class!

DIAT joins us from Germany to talk rolling around in shit on tour, being a square in punk music, and reverse-psychology police!

This week on the show, we talk to Gwen and Kerry of Calgary’s JUICE BOX! Juice Box write post punk songs inspired by internet comments and texts from creeps.

The band joined us from the CJSW studios in Calgary to take the CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE, and we learn about gopher museums, commemorative pope plates and alternative uses for sex swings. Plus we find out the pitfalls of an iPad based live show.

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Children - 2:52

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Goon Beat - 2:54

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - New Threat - 2:48

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Telegraphing - 2:24

Daylight Robbery - Accumulated Error - Walk Away - 3:15

CITY SLANG presents REST OF THE BEST featuring the best clips that never made the air! Featuring:

CENTURY PALM failing at Simpsons impressions!

DILLY DALLY refusing the theory that humans are living doughnut holes!

MIKE KROL and Travis discussing little-known Devo trivia involving Johnny Rotten and Richard Branson!

PAVILION reviewing the black whopper!

POP 1280 make fun of punks and fantasize about the Gattica-verse!

Sunday, February 28 at GABBA HEY!

This week on the show, we speak with Chris Bugg & Ivan Drip of New York’s Pop. 1280. They’ve just released their new Paradise LP on Sacred Bones. It’s a dark and slimy trip through the grimey sewers of a dystopian city and you’ll be hearing tracks from it during our interview.

We discuss the worst Star Trek episodes, signing cigarettes, NOT losing their van in Ottawa, NOT getting attacked by a sound guy, and more rumours, lies and exaggerations.

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Phantom Freighter - 3:17

Pop 1280 - Paradise - USS ISS - 3:25

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Chromidia - 2:50

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Paradise - 3:36

Pop 1280 - Paradise - The Last Undertaker - 4:00

Pop 1280 - Paradise - Kingdom Come - 4:30

This week on the show, we interview Steve, guitar player & singer of Victoria, BC’s Freak Heat Waves. We talk about the infamous live show of Karate Girlfriend, and Steve gives us a rundown of the band’s favorite horror and sci-fi flicks. PLUS we help spread the myth of a legendary Freak Heat Waves on-stage incident that may or may not involve human waste!