CITY SLANG
Travis interviews Sook-Yin Lee about loss, the pandemic, and surviving the four walls of your own home for a year. Plus we discuss great films with a single location, Herman Hesse, cooking face masks in Instant Pots, and bad karaoke memories.
info_outline PHIL ELVERUM aka THE MICROPHONES aka MOUNT EERIECITY SLANG
Travis and Emmanuel talk to the charming PHIL ELVERUM of THE MICROPHONES and MOUNT EERIE! We cover precisely why The Grateful Dead sucks, scoring free things at the dump, and nerding out over Eric's Trip.
info_outline MINI SLANG 8: CINDY LEECITY SLANG
Travis talks to Patrick Flegel of CINDY LEE and WOMEN about obscure Japanese movies, which Cormack Mccarthy novels suck, and why pop music is boundless.
info_outline MOTORISTSCITY SLANG
We've got Toronto's MOTORISTS on the show! We get sidetracked with an extensive discussion about Jim Carrey, and which cartoons were adapted from rated R movies... but then get into the meat of the episode: Motorists handpick a car-themed set list and give us the lowdown on each song.
info_outline DEADBEAT BEATCITY SLANG
We interview Detroit's Deadbeat Beat outside of Cinqhole in Ottawa!
info_outline WOOLWORM vs NECKINGCITY SLANG
Absolutely wild episode. After a surprise family reunion at a Woolworm/Necking show in Ottawa, we put both bands through the CITY SLANG questionnaire! We learn some wild first shows from Russia, a hilarious heckle from the Richmond Night Market, and a harrowing tale of stolen handsome sheet ghost at a Halloween party!
info_outline CITY SLANG SELECTIONS: SloanCITY SLANG
Chris Murphy picks a set of three tunes, including Guided By Voices, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, and Thrush Hermit!
info_outline SLOAN!CITY SLANG
Chris Murphy of SLOAN joins us our of nowhere, invoked like a Canadian demon after we spoke about them during our 90s episode!
info_outline PEACE AND LOVE: an important City Slang announcementCITY SLANG
Big announcement! Emmanuel got a sweet new job like a total dummy, and it means from now on we're PODCAST-ONLY, and will no longer air on campus and community radio!
info_outline MINI SLANG 7: Heather Rappard, director, photographer, video artist!CITY SLANG
A Mini Slang episode that got lost in the archive is resurrected! You might remember the amazing video for Tough Age's "Me in Glue" from a few months ago. Well, we loved it and got in touch with director Heather Rappard to discuss the video, her video for Old and Weird (a City Slang fave), and the time the only way out of making a bad video was to make an even shittier music video! It's a classic tale of directing.
info_outlineWe 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