CITY SLANG

We talk to CASPER SKULLS outside the Ottawa Explosion festival! After witnessing a minor fender bender, we discuss the time they hit a deer (the same deer FLASHER hit in episode 140?!), the alt-right's most hated venue, and working in the lard business! Plus we play these tunes:

Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Lips and Skull Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Devotion Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Errands Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Love Brain Casper Skulls - Lips & Skull - Caught On A Wire XETAS - The Tower - The Jaws Taiwan Housing Project - Veblen Death Mask - Authentic Alien Perfume C3I Hate Sex - World of Grief - Weird Dream, Conscious Stream Animal I - Blank Square - Empty Head B-Boys - Dada - Discipline Institute - Subordination - Good Ol Boys Booji Boys - S/T - I Dream of Booji Booji Boys - S/T - Waiting 2 Die Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone - It's Different Now

Macey of NEEDLES//PINS joins us to talk about running Budgie's Burritos, Prince tattoos, karaoke playlists, and which Blondie song is about getting bit on the ass by a dog! Plus we play these tunes:

Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Good Night Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Violet Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Back To The Bright Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Sleep Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - All The Same Needles//Pins - Good Night, Tomorrow - Tomorrow Teenanger - Teenager - Dawn - 3:53 Chad VanGaalen - Single - Old Heads Corridor - Supermercado - Demain Déjà Stef Chura - Messes - Slow Motion ISS - Endless Pussyfooting - HOT BOI Weedrat - III - Dead Horse Voigt/465 - Slights Still Unspoken (Selected Recordings 1978-1979) - A Welcome Mystery

Sheer Mag - 7" - What You Want

We talk to Ottawa's BONNIE DOON from outside their record launch show at the Record Centre! Find out who gave birth to twins on stage, and why they couldn't escape an escape room! Then we conduct a comprehensive history of every food that ever appeared on the BONNIE DOON instagram! Plus we play these tunes, and bands playing at Ottawa Explosion:

Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Haunted Life Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Pants and a Face Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - High Noon Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Sandy's Song Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Now or Neverish Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Panty Twister Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Ghost Story Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Messy // Clean Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - B Hole BBQT - OXW 2017 Sampler - High Wasted (Live) Dunes - OXW 2017 Sampler - I'm so… Empath - OXW 2017 Sampler - The Eye Feel Alright - OXW 2017 Sampler - A Lengthy End to a Bullfight Lake Urmia - OXW 2017 Sampler - June Nice Try - OXW 2017 Sampler - Restart Ruth Grader - OXW 2017 Sampler - Eighth Tunnel

Calgary's THE SHIVERETTES are on the show, live from a traffic jam! We get some solid keg stand advice, signing other band's T-shirts, karaoke strategies, and the time they ate spite burgers with the LAPD! Plus they pick some stuck-in-traffic classics to play!

We play these tunes:

The Shiverettes - Single - Stephen Harper Suck My Dick The Shiverettes - Dead Men Can't Cat Call - Broken Record The Shiverettes - Dead Men Can't Cat Call - Betty The Shiverettes - Dead Men Can't Cat Call - Missing Stair The Shiverettes - Dead Men Can't Cat Call - Obsessed The Shiverettes - Dead Men Can't Cat Call - Justice Robin Camp The Shiverettes - Dead Men Can't Cat Call - Dead Men Can't Cat Call

Shellshag - More Survival Tips From The Bay - Hello My Name Is Swim Team - Swim Team - Reanimator Laika's Orbit - unreleased - Ghosted Empty Nesters - Demos - To The Dregs (Wavves Cover) Future Girls - Unreleased- At It Again Pretty Pretty - Demos II - Delusion Dream B-52s - S/T - 52 Girls Doug and the Slugs - Cognac and Bologna - Too Bad

Travis interviews LAB COAST! We talk about the worst moments of the Calgary Stampede, the return of CD binders, a bizarrely detailed synopsis of former Wallflowers drummer Matt Chamberlin's career, plus a DEGRASSI JUNIOR HIGH QUIZZ OFF!

And we play these tunes:

Martha - BTJR split 7" - The Historian Benny The Jet Rodriguez - Martha Split 7" - In Love Wonk Unit - Feel The Wonkness - You Married a Tortured Genius Generacion Suicida - Sombras - Desconexion Pale Kids - Holy Mess 7"- The Binder's Chills Kuken - Küken LP - I'm Not a Fuck Up Violence Creeps - Ease The Seed Bag 7" - Backhand Viagra Boys - Call of the Wild - Upside Backwards

Emmanuel goes to-to-toe with Motherhood in the great CITY SLANG BOWL-OFF at a local bowling alley!

The band tells the story of an elevator survivalist who has to drink pee, gas hoarding rottweilers, and gives an update about the mysterious ORB GUY from our Lonely Parade episode!

Halifax band CROSSED WIRES take the CITY SLANG Questionnaire and we talk about dealing with the Green Day era you get stuck with! Plus we find out about Palm Bay hangovers, Kit Kat shortages, and dealing with bing bing club owners.

We play these tunes:

Crossed Wires - False Spring - S.A.D. - 2:56 - CC Crossed Wires - False Spring - Cornered - 2:38 - CC Crossed Wires - False Spring - Jinx - 3:20 - CC Crossed Wires - False Spring - New Year - 3:06 - CC Crossed Wires - Split w/ Creep Wave - You're Standing On My Neck Crossed Wires - Self-Titled - Can't Say No Gen Pop - Off Screen - The Wall Milk Music - Mystic 100's - Dare to Exist Chastity Belt - Single - Caught in a Lie Empty Heads - Normality - Peeled Back Unfun - Waterboarding - Death Majesty Super Crush - I Don't Want To Be Sad Anymore - How Does It Feel (To Feel Like You)? Tinsel Heart - Hey Boyfriend! EP - Wasted Yet Sad Uranium Club - 7" - Who Made The Man

CITY SLANG Radio is proud to premiere the latest cross-Canada beast PENTAGON BLACK COMPILATION NO. 2! The brand new double-sided 20x30" newsprint poster/download features exclusive new tunes from 24 of the best DIY bands in the country! It's a follow up to last year's Pentagon Black Compilation No. 1. CITY SLANG's Pentagon Black mega episode features every song on the comp along with unhinged introductions personally recorded by each band. PLUS an interview with Raymond and Drew of THE FAMINES/PENTAGON BLACK, the duo behind the compilation series. Go to cityslang.ca/pentagonblack for a full track list, a list of record release shows where you can see killer bands and buy your own Pentagon Black Compilation No. 2 for $10. Plus you can watch check out three music videos launching along with the compilation! ENJOY!

A very special LIVE episode featuring the legendary Edgar Breau of SIMPLY SAUCER! In front of an understanding audience of our adoring fans at the Dominion Tavern, we host a live Q&A with Heavy Metalloid Writer Jesse Locke (drummer of Simply Saucer, Tough Age, Century Palm, and more) and his subject Edgar Breau! We discuss Simply Saucer's storied history of scuba gear, playing proms, tube-hugging Ray Davies, and threatening radio stations into playing The Kinks! Plus we play these tunes: Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited - Instant Pleasure Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited - Bullet Proof Nothing Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited - Dance The Mutation Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited - Electro Rock Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited - Illegal Bodies Halfsour - Charm School - Ten Year Tenure Lillith - Apology Plant - Nickname Littler - Bad Hand 7" - Running Hot Kindling - Everywhere Else - Black Eye Vagabon - Infinite Worlds - Minneapolis Meat Wave - The Incessant - No Light Lab Coast - Remember The Moon - Bored Again

Sarah of LEATHER JACUZZI gives us a hilarious track-by-track breakdown of LEATHER JACUZZI lyrics, including some speculative historical beer fiction, medically accurate pee tasting, and more!

Plus lots of new new songs, and music in support of Our First 100 Days!

We play these tunes:

Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - Check My Piss Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - Flush The Beer (The Cops Are Here) Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - Don't Touch Me (I'm A Punk) Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - Sarah's Little Sweeties Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - Here Comes Mr Suck Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - Coca Cola Hammock Station Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - Love Theme From Leather Jacuzzi Leather Jacuzzi - Monsters, Narcs and Idiots - P Is For Peg Allison Crutchfield - Tourist In This Town - Dean's Room DJ Smoke Weed Guy - DJ Smoke Weed Guy Live On Ice - Rollerblades // POV Pavilion - Charmed Circle - Borderline White Poppy - EP - Love Molecules Women - Our First 100 Days - Group Transport Hall Omni - Fever Bass 7" - Fever Bass Snail Mail - Habit - Thinning Ty Segall - Ty Segall - Orange Color Queen