Border Boss

No, you didn't accidentally click on Spin.com, we are really reviewing a major label release of a famous alt rock band with expensive rock videos but you know... there are pics out there of almost all of these guys x'ed up so IT COUNTS. Also some beyond-crucial Telephone Auction chat.

We take you out of the post christmas hangover and get you on the road to 2023 with some fast facts about the dreariest parts of the 70s and 80s before turning hard, and I mean bootlegger turn hard, into the dreariest parts of the 90s with Louisville moodsters supreme - GUILT.

It's Yuletide so we decided as a gift to ourselves, we would spend one whole week punching down. That's right it's another Dutch straightedge band. This episode is also about timing... watching the right video or seeing the right meme at just the right time to light up the synapses you only reserve for hauntings and deja vu... the constant synergy of thinking everything is significant because you are old and dying. Oh this episode is about PRODUCT X.

It's the whole Chekov's Gun thing... we dipped into some stories many episodes ago that should have given you ample foreshadowing that we would eventually get around to the blu-ray two-disc deluxe version of one of the greatest stories in all of hardcore lore - this one's for the worms.

This holiday season we continue to swirl around in our own personal cesspool of hangups by taking on our first business partner, facing the truth of the first ever taco bell themed hardcore band that sadly doesn't involve us, and ultimately confronting a band made up of good friends and BLOOD ENEMIES - Albany NY's own GIVE UP.

In honor of finally hitting 14 listeners we decided to do a face reveal. Our true faces. No more facade. It's time for us to turn over the final joker card and proclaim the truth... OUR truth... that it's been a deathcore podcast all along.

Thanksgiving is upon us and in gratitude to our listeners, we are eliminating nearly ALL that chatter and digging immediately into our very first split 7" built from the local flavor of both of our homelands... a hard lesson in Troycore reality from WAR-TIME MANNER b/w a hard lesson in mosh grammar from Connecticut's TWO BY FOUR.

We overcome all the technical difficulties of 2022 to talk about likely impending conclusion of a racist barber from 2010's powerfully dumb storyline before guiding you through our deep dark thoughts on what it means to hear a single man from 2004 simulating the work of four or five men from 1986.

This week we CUT THE CRAP and dig directly into a topic that we predict will have a geographic reach of maybe like 100 miles, but all the 40-55 year olds within that 100 mile radius will be tripping over the snowdrifts of SAM BLACK CHURCH stickers still piled up in their homes to post about how Jet once jumped off a giant fiberglass weed leaf and landed on them so hard that they still have to sleep sitting up and can't hold a ball in their left hand.

2 days 2 late 4 Halloween but timed perfectly for Day of the Dead we bring you spices that can kill, habits that can kill, and a band who can never die... feel ghoulish energy all the way from your pallid undead skin right down to your personal spooky skeleton with the nocturnal sounds of INK & DAGGER.

This week we undertake a live physical challenge by eating a moldy old chip then attempt to talk about burgers, big boys, bar mitzvahs, and Buffalo's unimpeachable DOODLY DEEDLY core legends, SNAPCASE.

This week we crack open a 45 year old can of schlitz and think about the 80s luxury of eating truffle juice on some 99 cent french fries plus a dense episode 2 of TALK BAKULA before getting into the rare territory of examining a band who are very overt with their footnotes, Toronto's best kept secret MILLENIAL REIGN.

Holy canoli this episode Mike debuts a BOLD new segment plus some chat about the state of theatrical Florida groove metal before digging into the restless vortex of Bellingham Washington's JAYHAWKER. While you are listening, please check out our twitter because Mike promises he'll be laying beefy slabs of tweet out there.

This week we discuss stuffed animals and the conundrum of recycling including RIFF recycling before digging deep into the naughty potty meat of Virginia Beach's CANEPHORA, unsung masters of never throwing away a riff.

The universe dares us again... a band that is controversial to the First Seven Inch Club inner circle is forced into the bleaching light of our ill-informed but DEATHLY FINAL judgement. Will mid-90s grooveriding hitmakers Withstand open up this pit in your heart or in your stomach? Also some exceedingly rare merch chat.

This week we have our first true crime episode because we want to be RRRRRRRICH but we also want to talk about extremely old TV and Movies which clashes entirely with the anti-everything worldview of today's blackened thrash hardcore multitaskers SANGRAAL - Gehenna again-a? Amen-a!

We come back from the fattened sloth of a 2 week break bearing a listener submission that the listener kindly sent us for free and also had the forethought to record 27 years ago since he's on it! The musically earnest and intense wailing of Upper Darby's own KNOTWORK plus a teeny tiny li'l bit of coke spoon chat.

Mike finally collects all the necessary gems to activate the Taconic Parkway gauntlet, combining the energy of the Upstate New York and Connecticut scenes into a powerful singularity that unfortunately does not translate into record sales. Today's band was either crucially important to you at 19 or you never heard of 'em but we're gonna fix that and spend some of your money for you.

This is Mike's Time 2 Shine as he Chairman-Kaga-reveals a record that is surprisingly difficult to google. Join us in examining the extraordinarily representative mosh energy of Connecticut's (but not THAT part of Connecticut) X JUSTIFY X.

No you read that right... this band is named Groove.