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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.

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. Existing patrons, sorry you already heard this one. See you next week!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.