Podcast Border Boss

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.Bởi 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.Bởi 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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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 FAIL…

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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 opene…

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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…

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

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…

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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 si…

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 Ha…

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.…

This week we are giving it everything we got... Going hard as hell on the music choice, tricking a guest star with the bait and switch, dropping a brand new Patreon exclusive concept - no one in history has ever worked this hard. Liam O'Donnell of Cinepunx podcast joins us to discuss all the eggs in the 90s Krishnacore pop crossover basket aka BABY…

This episode we discuss unsettling folk music, unsettling old man fests, and unsettlingly bland dudes online before unsettling ourselves by analyzing a beloved band that all of you definitely know better than us.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

This episode we talk about all the coolest corporations like Ticketmaster and Nike and how great it's all going before getting into one of the most low-rent but high impact splits of all time... Pittsburgh's tech-lords CREATION IS CRUCIFIXION vs Phoenix misery metal masters UNRUH.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

So it's come to this... we have a special announcement that feels like putting on an enormous clown nose. A clown nose big enough to fit a Godzilla. A Godzilla which may or may not have, at one point or another, fought a fellow kaiju named MONSTER X, which is also the name of some guys we know.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

This week we discuss some NORMY hardcore news like some ordinary hardcore podcast and it feels so good we might just keep doing that from now on. It's so easy to just tell you about hardcore internet. I'm not sure why you usually come here, but from now on it's to hear about hardcore internet only 3 days old. We also talk about Haymaker.…

This week Mike slam dunks a Letterboxd goal and Scot discusses a completely ordinary situation that thousands of people experience routinely as though he is the first man on the moon. Eventually we talk about SWING KIDS, a record that marks the birth of jazz and I mean real jazz not that toot toot horn pervert bullshit.…

Today we confront mortality in its many forms - the life or death choices of a horrific body puzzle in rollercoaster form; the sheer weight of being trapped in a body that spends 80 years dying unless it gets pasted by Rambo; the forbidden landscape of trash bags and tires under the spicy mustard sky of TRAGEDY.…

This week is ALL REVIEWS: Two capsule reviews of our Secret Santa gifts - records by Boston noise weirdos Spore and Hudson Valley's Apocalypse stompers All Out War. Then we embark on a journey deep into the tangled roots of Long Island hardcore where we screw up ROYALLY in examination of CLOCKWISE. Bonus Taco Bell scene report for old headz.…

This week we get a little too close for comfort talking about everything related to the show Webster except Webster then opening our Secret Santa gifts before wading into the weird smelling waters of the Hudson Valley to mosh in our big comfortable running shoes to the rock hard throb of DROWNING ROOM.…

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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 …

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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 l…

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.Bởi Border Boss & Friends

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.…