First Seven Inch Club (AKA Border Boss)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 FAILURE FACE.

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.

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.

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 opened our 27 year old copy of WE THE PEOPLE - A COMPIL...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 own BARRIT.

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

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 own BIPOLAR.

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.