Border Boss

This week we meet up with old friends, beat up new friends, and cool out to chill authoritarian entertainments before tearing apart the living thorax of some friends and acquaintances for their role in a tricky little record from a very different time called DEATHSQUAD.

This episode is a canvas for sharing a bunch of personal anecdotes while eating too much, working too hard, and killing too many people to solve any crimes. To ward off any vengeful curses, we recommend you dig into the unique scholastic utopian sounds of Connecticut's own THINNER.

Absolutely pivotal things are happening in the world right now, one might even label some of it a crisis. We're here to eat it all as ethically as possible, no matter how weirdly it is handed to us in the drive thru. Today's dish comes all the way from the forgotten world of 1992 served up by 5 adorable li'l chefs known as EARTH CRISIS.

This week we workshop some dystopian speculative fiction with a futuristic japanese soundtrack and bend our efforts toward forwarding the feline agenda without having to wipe anything. Eventually we talk about them 'Bama boys, HASTE and how jimmy quit, joey got married, we shoulda known...

This week the entire gang is succumbing to the hot trend of life threatening illness (even the cats) as we think out loud about the sights, sounds, and feelings of metalcore before discussing one of the least metalcore bands we've ever covered, Richmond paranoiacs CLOAK/DAGGER.

Today we confront pop art, synth pop, synth pop art, and all the places where those boundaries are overstepped before evaluating the state of bottom tier influencers and their dropshipped pomades. Eventually we get around to the hard to categorize, garbage barge ornamented monster bicoastal slams of BULLETS*IN.

This week we clamber over plagues, wildlife and various other horsemen of the apocalypse to once again return to the unlimited well of Commitment Records for a taste of the dangerous but highly temporary sounds of OIL.

This week we discuss money, budgeting, saving, monetization, obama, and 80s anime workouts before unearthing the obscure origins of one of the most moshed-to drummers of all time as he earns his hardcore bachelors degree in Buffalo or Syracuse but probably Buffalo's own NO JOKE.

This week we get into oversized crackers, overwhelming geocaching, and overcooked 2001 metalcore before sitting down to fan ourselves in all this heat and remember what it was like to be young and super into hooded sweatshirts, thrash ballads, and magneto scarabs... kinda like Akron's only sons SPLINTER.

Our final episode before a brief vacation sees us thinking about our waning years of live performances and our waxing years of cheez-it appreciation before diving into the rich universe of california punk and hardcore via the surf 'n sun sounds of Mis'sionnne Vai-jo's own BORDERLINE.

This week talk about hardcore (gaming) and hardcore (manga collecting) hardcore (reality TV) before celebrating the legacy of the late (hardcore) Steve Albini by examining one of the few ZENI GEVA records he had absolutely nothing to do with.

Over the last few months we've brought you the flavors of England, Canada, Ancient Greece, Arrakis, Philadelphia... but there's truly no place like home. So steep yourself a cup of chamomile tea, put on your favorite sweater, snuggle up with the quilt grandma made you, and queue up the void-genital destroying apocalypse grind of Albany NY's CONNIPTION.

This week we taste spicy creams as we ponder the eroding furnace of time and it's early onset effects for those who choose the punk way. We challenge the permanence of recorded interviews and taste the honeyed prog of an aging spaceman. Finally we stare head-on into the burning passion of 4 Buffalonians who truly practice what they preached... why? NO REASON.

This week we get unexpectedly dialed up about Xena Warrior Princess before dialing it down to soberly discuss the late-period youth crew antics of the only band we've ever encountered to feature a prominent BMX theme - Hunterdon County's beloved and clean living sons RAD.

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.

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 available world of Hot Wheels collecting. Existing patrons, sorry you already heard this one. See you next week!

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.

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 SCARLET LETTER.

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.

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.