Today's topic is "killer tone". We open up with the secret to killer tone and then explore what killer tone means to christians, ghosts, napoleons, and a little garden of unearthly delights growing in the deserts of Arizona named WELLINGTON.By Border Boss & Friends

Today we positively attack the kitchen pouring every incompatible liquid in the pantry into a jar and just chugging it like a monster absolutely hidden from the eyes of its maker and that's because it's time for us to tackle something for which we are woefully underqualified, namely a hardcore record. Please check out the band GO!…

This week we vicariously spelunk the occursed land behind the capitol district's most aggressive mall before spelunking our american-cheese-slice-deep appreciation of you-know-what with the rust belt's most objectively beloved sons, 9 SHOCKS TERROR.By Border Boss & Friends

This week we are working without a safety net and it's no small feat when you are dealing with bareknuckle boxing, monster trucks, sippin cream, and the unhinged energy of the kind of hardcore scene that would dare to share a zipcode with Phish. Welcome to the ancient and prescient world of THE CHAMPIONS.…

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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...By Border Boss & Friends

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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 CONNIPT…

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?…

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.By Border Boss & Friends

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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By Border Boss & Friends