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.

Episode 84 - Creation is Crucifixion / Unruh Split

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.

Episode 85 - Swiz

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.

Episode 91 - Inside Out

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.

Episode 98 - The Prowl

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.

Episode 100 - We The People - A Compilation of Upstate NY's Hardest

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.

Episode 102 - Jasta 14

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.

Episode 106 - Carol

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.

Episode 109 - Close Call

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.

Episode 118 - Kungfu Rick

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.

Episode 121 - United Blood

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.

Episode 122 - Slogan Boy

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.

Episode 123 - DS-13 with TYLER HAMMER

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.

Episode 124 - Inside

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.

Episode 125 - As Darkness Falls

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.

Episode 126 - Necrosphere featuring Shelby Cobras

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.

Episode 127 - Artimus Pyle

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.

Episode 128 - Loser Life

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.

Episode 129 - Deep Sleep

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.

Episode 130 - The Jury

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.

Episode 131 - Chokehold

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.

Episode 132 - What Still Holds True (Comp)

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.

Episode 133 - Yaphet Kotto / Suicide Nation Split

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.

Episode 134 - Boxed In

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.

Episode 135 - Onion

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 SCARLET LETTER.

Episode 136 - Scarlet Letter

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.

Episode 137 - The Swarm aka Knee Deep in the Dead

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 available world of Hot Wheels collecting.
 
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HIATUS BONUS - Weeksperts 1 - Hot Wheels (Patreon Exclusive)

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.

Episode 138 - Starkwearther

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.

Episode 139 - Rad

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? NO REASON.

Episode 140 - No Reason

Two dying old men formerly active in the Albany hardcore scene rate and review obscure metal and hardcore 7" records as the light slowly fades from their eyes. Formerly and occasionally-still known as BORDER BOSS, a Taco Bell appreciation-cast.

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