CITY SLANG

The great MIKE KROL returns! One of our favourite guests joins us to discuss the burden of jean fits, what to do with a mannequin head of yourself, visiting Jack Black's house, and how to find the perfect explosion sound.

PLUS a comprehensive career update when our hard-hitting news segment "The Krol Report" returns! Track list! Mike Krol Power Chords Power Chords Mike Krol Power Chords Power Chords Mike Krol I Hate Jazz Fifteen Minutes Mike Krol Power Chords What's The Rhythm Mike Krol Power Chords Left For Dead Mike Krol Power Chords Blue And Pink Mike Krol Trust Fund Plague Mike Krol Power Chords Little Drama Mike Krol Power Chords I Wonder Mike Krol Power Chords Nothing To Yell About Mike Krol Power Chords An Ambulance Mike Krol Power Chords Wasted Memory Mike Krol Power Chords The End

Steve Sidoli (Teenanger) joins us to discuss the label he co-runs, TELEPHONE EXPLOSION and their new ambient/new age/optimistic re-issue imprint MORNING TRIP.

Steve runs us through the re-issue process, the state of selling records in 2019, and what happens when you call out of the blue to ask someone about the music they recorded 20 years ago and forgot about. Sometimes they pitch you on paper records!

PILL join us to discuss the secret history of the dog on their cover art, crashing a state-funded artist squat in Germany, the secret members of their band (Sheila 1 and 2), and introducing their supergroup parents at the MOMA! Plus Travis goes full-Narduar and we stumble on the Pill DOS game!

Plus we play these tunes:

Pill - Soft Hell - Dark Glass Pill - Soft Hell - Fruit Pill - Convenience - 100% Cute Pill - Soft Hell - Double Think Pill - Soft Hell - Plastic Pill - Soft Hell - Midtown

Patrick Crowley - Afternooners - Surfside Sex Lubricated Goat - Plays the Devil's Music - Nerve Quake

It's our BEST OF 2018 EPISODE! Bask in some of the funnest moments of the year with some of our favourite people:

Peach Kelli Pop meets Danzig (with a Mike Krol cameo) Prenup hang out with Colin Hanks (with a Queen Latifah cameo) Lié gets Henry Rollins on the phone to chat with a boyfriend BBQT discuss the worst time to get dumped Nap Eyes give dubious and thorough fitness advice Dead Soft expose Dirty Nil's hilarious tour workout Faith Healer gives us more than we bargained for when we ask about Thunder Bay Boyhood shares a heartbreaking bat story Pony takes the Pinned To The Wall Pinterest food quiz WLMRT swims into a concert to steal some beers Chad Vangaalen wants to break into someone's house to steal back his Nintendo

Protomartyr returns! CITY SLANG correspondent Ev interviews Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey about working with other bands (including their Kim Deal collaboration), forgetting to write your lyrics down, hating the mosh pit, and learning your #1 fan is a nightmare kid.

Emmanuel and Travis make an impassioned fee for you to donate to the station that keeps us alive: CHUO 89.1FM! Listen and donate, it's easy and helps independent media!

Then Ottawa's own EXPANDA FUZZ take us track-by-track through their new self-released album, Cotton Candy Jet Engine!

We chat with Shelby from WLMRT about CITY SLANG favorite topics like karaoke and The Simpsons, but we also learn about intestinal training, coffee shop celebrity encounters, and we start a new segment called Movie Corner. Shelby also shares an epic tale of sneaking in to a concert, stealing beers and ending up with a $500 dental bill. We play basically WLMRT's full discography including the brand new LUBE 2 EP out now on Pleasance Records!

We call Nathaniel and Keeley of DEAD SOFT and discuss eating healthy on the road, the time they caught The Dirty Nil planking, living on Gabriola Island with hummingbirds, and their new EP on Arts and Crafts! Plus we get the first LIVE-ON-RADIO PARALLEL PARK in CITY SLANG history!

We play these tunes:

Dead Soft - New Emotion - Kill Me Dead Soft - New Emotion - Proof Dead Soft - New Emotion - I'm Afraid Dead Soft - New Emotion - Down Dead Soft - New Emotion - Bones Supercrush - I've Been Around - I've Been Around Woolworm - Deserve To Die - Seer Daddy's Hands - Daddy's Hands - Statistics Wigs Expanda Fuzz - Cotton Candy Jet Engine - Ghosts And Flowers Civic - Those Who No - Pleasure Flesh Rag - Inside Your Mind - Inside Your Mind Frigs - Single - Crop Circles Dilly Dally - Heaven - I Feel Free

We get right to dumping brand new music on everyone's heads this week. We play:

Marbled Eye - Leisure - Laughing Sound Carbonas - Your Moral Superiors: Singles And Rarities - Blackout (Waiting To Happen) Tommy & The Commies - Here Come... - Throwaway Love School Damage - A to X - City Streets

We call Andrew of WALK A MILE RECORDS! We discuss why he started a record label, his master's thesis, and the story behind Sedition's vicious Papa John take down.

Plus Andrew picks a set of music including Gold Finch, Sedition, and Miles Between Us.