Unfortunately we all survived our hiatus trials and we're here to bring you some Eclipse chat a full week after everyone else has moved on. Don't move on, man... the eclipse won't be back for ages. Stay with it. Stay with it. Anyway here's Philadelphia murder machines STARKWEATHER.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We are off this week, but to fill your holes we offer a free copy of one of our past Patreon exclusives. If you like what you hear, please consider joining our Patreon at Patreon.com/FirstSevenInchClub Welcome to Weeksperts, our attempt to become experts in a week via a weak spurt of research. In this episode, we analyze and master the readily avai…

We love international culture so this week we briefly think about dutch working class music before setting sail for a country we can't sail to - America's own CANADA. There we eat jars of vegan grease while searching for yet another Colo-band, THE SWARM.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week we IRL check out some hockey and VIRTUAL check out some Sunami. Emboldened by mosh, we openly choose to flaunt the will of god, defying the current dangers of long flimsy suspension bridges to take the Pulaski Skyway right into the guts of NJ. Does the skyway actually take you to Brunswick? What do I look, like Rand McNally? Anyway here's…

We're tired of all this fast punky punk so it's time to come home... Mike's home... where mom still keeps all the ambiguous early 90s post-hardcore in danish cookie tins and old sanka cans. If you're hungry, stop by Connecticut for a nice big plate of ONION.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week briefly think about trucks before daring the very oceans to contain us as our spirits speed easily over their Atlantean depths on a transcendental mission to observe, but never interfere with, the comings and goings of UK Hardcore lifers BOXED IN.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week we bust the secrets of the past wide open by exposing the truth about mud floods and substandard death metal before cracking the forbidden seal on the ancient charred fortress lavyrinth YAPHET KOTTO and SUICIDE NATION.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

Today we tiptoe carefully around the stresses of the young before examining the young stresses of the old. Explore what it means to pray for a clean death as we embark - for the first time ever - on a tour of the maybe-1993 / maybe-1995 comp WHAT STILL HOLDS TRUE featuring Chokehold, Deadwait, Burst of Silence, and Line Drive.…

We are almost timely on a topic for a change but also we are men disaligned with time... chasing the pearls and gold and Citizen watches of yesteryear's opulence while dancing to a drummer that is in no hurry to keep time. Join us this week for CHOKEHOLD.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

After putting a thumb on the scale it looks like Albany's own THE JURY finally wins the sick and revolting prize of our attention. I'm sorry, The Jury. Also internet chat, music chat, and taco chat, which we never apologize for.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week the audience applies a lifehack to get more of what they want but we use a very special First Seven Inch Club counter-hack to give them even less than they deserve as we admire the clear blue ecstasy of bal'mer's own DEEP SLEEP.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We celebrate the 46th Anniversary of the most effective and important crossover event of all time before stepping into the ring with Bakersfield not-crossover melodic hardcore and kettlebell kings LOSER LIFE.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week we overcome the overwhelming fatigue of a life of listening to records in winter to talk about surgery, audio best practices, and alien mosh parts before doing our best to limit certain words and phrases we are dying to invoke while discussing west coast Prank records cold dead agony machines ARTIMUS PYLE.…

Mike takes us even further from the lingering stench of Punk Month with possibly the only Italian metal band on earth that doesn't play romance novel dragon music and we get so deep in the metal weeds that we need help from our friend Shelby.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

Punk Month is now as dead as can be so we turn our undivided attention to all other things dead and death related - the death metal quandary of good cop and bad cop, the deathlike sounds of satanic ska, the deadly accuracy of building a life inside the computer world, and the 90s giant pants death-sounds of New Jersey's own AS DARKNESS FALLS.…

We shamble slowly out of our disorganized holiday dormancy to discuss vibes, magic, and the new years ball. a hard shinyball. Then we get into the swing of things with a softball... a very soft ball... but also a tricky ball. The soft, tricky ball of Long Island's INSIDE.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

To close out PUNK MONTH as well as the year 2023, we finally remember that we have friends who actually listen to PUNK and we tag one in. And then we (possibly) hit him with a hardcore record instead. Tyler from KINGS OF PUNK Podcast joins us to translate the inter-genre hard-punk of Umea Sweden's hi-tech sons DS-13.…

Punk Month rolls on with extremely underground discussion of Kiss, Abba, Elf, and Sports. Also we talk about one guy in a basement making SLOGAN BOY.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We discuss STATS and WRAPPED and BENCH PRESS and then plow right back into Punk Month getting knees up down the pub with the match on the telly courtesy of SF's own blackletter boot stompers, UNITED BLOOD.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

PUNK MONTH Continues this week as we phone it in with swollen, drunken holiday abdomens featuring a era-concluding Taco Bell scene report, unbridled record buying, creamy drinks, and the harsh PUNK sounds of Mike's homeland as fractured through the prism of BOILING MAN.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

PUNK MONTH WEEK 1 - Instead of warming up with some softballs, we go directly personal by analyzing the band of a direct acquaintance like he's not gonna hear this some day. Join us as jeopardize some relationships with Albany's long lost sons THE DISENCHANTED.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week we face the unruly demon of what happens when the spotlight effect turns out to be true before doing a little webslinging and poverty tourism on our way to ingest the intricate victorian remains of Chicago legends KUNGFU RICK.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

Join us on a post-halloween journey into what it means to be a spooky father and a high rolling arts supporter before tucking a napkin into your collar and digging into the thick juicy steak of Virginia Beach's most notable C-band, CHANNEL.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We're Back! Did you miss us? No for real though did you? This week we talk about dancing, eating, hornplay, kornplay, and keep digging into the soft deep earth to find the sun source of all chugga slams. Today our journey brings us to the chocolate coated depths of the rust belt to examine the allegedly proto-sXe ur-mosh of CONVICTION.…

Well... we've never done this before - An immediate sequel episode! This week we briefly discuss some important internet and Taco Bell news before continuing our exploration into the Downcast extended universe by inhaling the dank mushroom clouds downwind of JARA.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week modern medicine nearly takes us of the board for good but as innocent protagonists, we no longer fear the traps of Jigsaw. With our renewed sense of foolish immortality, we step into the off-limits pit of Ebullition Records #1 ubiqui-legends DOWNCAST.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

New Feature - the First Seven Inch Club Book Club! I don't think we'll ever actually talk about the book again or anything but JOIN JOIN JOIN. After you have JOINED, don't forget to come back to your podcast player hear fun facts about LIHC supergroup BLOOD RED.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week one of us goes nowhere because it's closing and the other goes everywhere because they have monster trucks. Eventually we get buzzed enough to challenge each other to a bowline tying contest over the rope hauling work chants of well known seafaring town Austin, TX own able seamen, EMPLOYER EMPLOYEE.…

Hey did you know there was not exactly a punk show at a Taco Bell? NOW YA DO. Today we talk about soft pop, difficult zines, award winning slams, and the extremely hard biker sounds of Orange California's ENEWETAK.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week everyone overdid it and sounds like death warmed over so we decided to take it easy and discuss two short songs played by (but not written by) AC/DC and Foster the People labelmates STOMPBOX.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This episode is a call to cherish the time you have left because if someone as strong as Bray Wyatt is susceptible, aren't we all? Are you as strong as... Bray Wyatt? After meditating on death and art and media resurgence, we consume the most focused ice dagger of hardcore available to the forgotten world of Boston 2002 - CLOSE CALL.…

This week we discuss fast cars, hot jean meat, lucozade and some extremely prominent emo that we have avoided enjoying for 26 years before getting down to some straight Houston shhhhhh with Equal Vision Records #2, REFUSE TO FALL.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

Today we spend 3 and a half hours discussing our favorite guns before running out of minutes on our data plan. Hopefully an algorithm fills in some info about Massachusetts skate rock demons HALLRAKER so you guys can find out about all of that.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week we will talk about the topic that I am sure most people are expecting us to talk about - the Assuck elephant mouse. Once we get that out of the way it's OFF TO GERMANY AGAIN for a heaping helping of Bremencore with the chaotic bass guitar assault of CAROL.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week we think about Russian racists and mourn many losses before encountering the hard limits of our limited low-energy methods. Please join us for life's greatest mystery - the German musical buffet of CHOOSE X.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

Aren't you lucky! All you little rabbits who refuse to meet our meager Patreon demands are getting a bonus Border Boss Classique minisode tucked into one of these broke-ass freeware joints. Once you are done mooching off of us for the 104th time, we need to get down with some of that deep Florida alligator sound so break out your jockstrap for FAIL…

This week we spend about 2 hours talking about old indie and alt rock before busting out an old weathered map to find our way to the UK where the British have been secretly hiding highly sensitive hardcore from us for all these years. Join us as we draw a dotted line over the ocean in our quest to think about SCHEMA.…

Two grown men march fearlessly into entertainment spaces designed only for children before getting way faded on some fully live jams that are once again from Connecticut. TUNE INN for a surprisingly Jasta-less freak sesh with JASTA 14.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We emerge from a somewhat trying week to tell you about incredibly ancient rock from the early 80s before pivoting immediately to ancient rock from the late 80s. Bust out your puffy white high tops and some fruit by the foot to sink your rotting teeth into (close to) Philly's own INSTANT JUSTICE.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

It took us 188 episodes but we finally made it to EPISODE 100! In honor of this wretched milestone, we are bringing you an xxxtra thicc episode exploring our own personal experiences with an album that was once more abundant than grains of sand or molecules of oxygen within a very specific 50 mile radius and nowhere else. It's time we finally opene…

This week we congratulate Mike on his wise decision to be from Connecticut before making lightweight predictions about the digital coin drop. Eventually we finally get around to the thick ropey chords of 90s burly-man metal machines ANODYNE.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week one big problem in the world is made right while literally every other thing is made wrong and to celebrate, we kick back with the controversial and horrific rock of Massachusetts kitchen knife murderers THE PROWL.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We open with some legal chat before busting open more shred than the law allows with the biblically tormented thoughts and feelings of Atlanta's own ahead-of-the-curve fret-nicians - DAWN OF ORION.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

This week we are hard on the arts, hard on creativity, hard on passion, hard on booze, and just hard on. Join us in unpacking the physically inconvenient record by Goleta's own droid-hungry experimentalists EX-IGNOTA.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We're hardcore dead center in the middle of spring which is a time of new things which is why we decide to go on a quest for very stale old things. After accepting this new quest, we take just a few minutes to honor this grail piece sent to us by our friend Charles from Spiritkiller - The bleak and hopeless pre-Bane metal shard-storm of Worcester's…

In lieu of information or enrichment of any kind, we bring you some real Hat Chat. Afterwards, please dig the much requested GROUNDWORK (CT).Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We might kid around about picking obscure records with limited appeal from time to time but we finally did it. So little info exists that even some of the people involved barely remember. We were worried the content would be thin so we brought in podcast heavy hitter JONAH BAYER to help us with the browser-history risking research on Canton, Ohio's…

We got a little merch chat, a little morbid chat, a little gatekeeping chat, then a dark descent down the memory lanes populated by an orphaned genre of pop culture driven drop-D rock modeled this week by Boston's HONKEYBALL.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

Here we are like 7 or 8 years into unhinged mask-off timeline and guess what... it is STILL COOL AND OKAY to post that one Rage lyric. Whenever they act up and there are no repercussions, you know I have to do it to 'em. Anyway here's the INSIDE OUT episode.Kirjoittanut Border Boss & Friends

We are now operating almost exclusively in a red hot danger room where we discuss the lives and motivations of people we know directly. How long can we pull some low-rent This Is Your Life schtick before we finally go too far and a keyboard player we didn't notice in the credits decides the show is over? As a matter of fact, we didn't identify a si…