Border Boss

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 COMPILATION OF UPSTATE NY'S HARDEST.

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.

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.

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 single keyboardist on today's record from Cleveland's MAD MINDS so this might be the one.

In pursuit of the unvarnished truth, we stumble upon a mysterious sliding door universe where book lovers move about in plain sight yet unknown to the world around them - living, loving, and possibly linusing. Along that dust road, we tune the broken radio to some pure country classics and do our best to piece together the dark history of Albany Hardcore's most difficult-to-purchase band, POLICE LINE.

I know, from the cover art you might be thinking we dug up some obscure old Pantera. Something actually befitting the current thrust of the show. Something potentially intriguing or thought provoking. You'd be wrong. The worst part of all of this is that I forgot to talk about what a stupid name Pantera is.

This is probably about as obscure as we are allowed to get This record isn't even on discogs. EVERYTHING is on discogs. Join us on an impossibly deep dive into a corner of the Albany scene that gets almost zero recognition or coverage... the long forgotten goofball boogerpunk of Albia's number one sons BAD CASE OF THE GOUT.