Hey there! Howdy!

I’ve got to say it loudly:

Thanks, Dan.

I kind of arbitrarily foisted a nearly two-month hiatus on this thing! A function of moving across the country and starting work in a new industry…

So… upon review of Dan’s notes… I see that this episode was about what we were listening to at the time! Which might be fairly different than now! But… it was only within the last month…

You know it’s probably good!

Nothing whatsoever to do with submarines. Or bogs. Or monsters that take submarines to get to bogs. But then again, maybe!

Uhhhh…

Click below! You will (?) be glad you did!

From the rec room to the home office and maybe the porch… if we had porches… #bogmonstermusic

The audio is really the piece de resistance of the podcast… we think… #bogmonstermusic

We also have a list full of music for playing!

Dan’s Notes

Fucked Up/Halluci-Nation collabs

https://youtu.be/QLVzYGwtHsk Electroshock

https://youtu.be/VdJubxEeblk John Wayne Was A Nazi

A cool pair of collaborations between good friends on tour, paying tribute to longtime favourites of theirs. Fucked Up released their first LP as a full band in nine years at the start of 2023 and have been hitting the road this year with their kindred spirits from another genre The Halluci-Nation (fka A Tribe Called Red), which has resulted in the two bands coming together to record a couple of fun cover songs to promote their tour (which also features live wrestling matches as openers). The first of these is their take on Ritmo Peligroso’s “Electroshock”, one of the first punk singles to come out of the Mexican scene and a longtime record collecting holy grail until recently for FU vocalist Damian Abraham. The second of these collaborations is a cover of the Millions Of Dead Cops classic “John Wayne Was A Nazi”, a song whose early 80’s hardcore vibes and anticolonialist lyrical sentiments meshes well with the vibes of both bands on a variety of levels, and while some may balk at the wubba-wubba bass drop breakdown in the midst of the cover’s industrial punk angst, I would remind everyone that the original’s slap bass intro was a little bit cringe at the time too. Still, I think it’s really cool that these two bands are not only touring together but making music together too.

End It

https://youtu.be/7BgQEyKeQmE New Wage Slavery

https://youtu.be/RaA_loWu1oM Hatekeeper

Baltimore is starting to get a whiff of that Seattle/Chapel Hill type of hype in terms of the new wave of hardcore bands over the past decade or so and End It are holding it down for the ugly, angry and thrashing side of things, especially on their Unpleasant Living 7” from last year. The band leans heavy into the punk side of crossover thrash, with a wailing solo here and a wailing vocal there, without veering into full on red-Ibanez-metal (if you know what I mean in that bands that leaned a little too hard into the cheesier metal side of crossover thrash always had a guy playing a red Ibanez guitar somewhere in the lineup – this a fact I will not tolerate any arguments on). Anyway, End It rip through six songs in eight minutes on this rager of an EP and it’s just a perfect little package of pure anger and spite on wax. Vocalist Akil Greenley is one of those rare folks in hardcore who can actually sing when needed and has a dark sense of humour mixed in with his angry and pessimistic lyrics. He also co-hosts a podcast called Up The Blunx that leans towards the comedic and has also started standup comedy outside of the band recently due to making a fan in Mister Show alumnus and metal connoisseur Brian Posehn who had heralded the band on social media after hearing their EP played in a pizza shop after a show one night. Also the band has one of the best nonverbal ad libs in hardcore when Akil follows the last line of “New Wage Slavery” with the deepest, most anguished “UUUGH!” committed to record. This EP was released on Flatspot Records and definitely worth seeking out if the dig the faster and uglier side of things. 

Gel

https://youtu.be/F_-bn5Ws2Tw Honed Blade

https://youtu.be/KtClECC-7Y8 Attainable

Whatever is in the water in New Jersey that causes it to consistently produce killer bands has struck again, with these purveyors of “Hardcore For The Freaks” dropping a killer debut album Only Constant on Convulse Records (also home to show faves MSPaint and Militarie Gun) earlier this year that stands out in a year already chock full of great punk/hardcore records. The band alternates between galloping hardcore riffs and killer mid tempo grooves while trying to create a more inclusive environment in the circle pit with their aforementioned “freak”-friendly motto and being vocal about a variety of personal topics in their raging songs, and their debut LP clocks in at 10 songs in 17 minutes, including a collage of voicemail messages from folks expressing anger at a variety of topics in the “scene” and the world at large that the band also incorporates into their live shows. Gel are still super young as a band and as people and are just starting to make that move from basement shows to larger stages now and if they keep making music as exciting as this debut record I’ve been listening to a bunch lately I am excited to see where they go. 

Chat Pile 

https://youtu.be/74Wm1d3Dq8c Slaughterhouse

https://youtu.be/vtKsOjR2ke4 Tropical Beaches Inc.

I feel like there is a certain kind of heavy that only comes from cities outside of the big urban centres of North America, and Oklahoma City’s Chat Pile channel a kind of heaviness you just do not hear every day.  These prairie malcontents released their debut full length God’s Country in 2022 though I was late to the game on their music and didn’t really give their album a chance to grow on me until a little earlier this year, and boy has it grown on me. They play a cosmic noise rock gumbo with influences like Jesus Lizard, Unsane, Big Black and even a little bit of Godflesh, with their often-sludgy tempos and their drummer’s use of synth pads instead of standard acoustic drums giving it all a bleak industrial undercurrent on top of the eerie guitars and throbbing bass, with vocalist Raygun alternating between a half-spoken half-sob and throat-tearing shrieks and howls over top of it all. On top of their musical inspirations, the band has referenced the films of Gregg Araki and novels of Russell Banks as major influences, and the band manages to to stay heavy and brutal without leaning too hard into traditional metal tropes and channeling the sound of pure bad vibes in the best possible way from beginning to end on their debut. It’s not an every day “throw it on tidying the house” kind of music but when you are in the mood, Chat Pile hits just right. 

Danny Brown/Jpegmafia

https://youtu.be/fnHA9LyF6IA Garbage Pale Kids

https://youtu.be/87xS4cgTf68 Scaring The Hoes

2023’s Scaring The Hoes is one of those “of course, why haven’t they worked together yet” sort of collaborations between young Brooklyn weirdo rapper/producer Jpegmafia and chemically-fuelled Detroit oddball Danny Brown. Peggy’s hyperkinetic glitchy beats work perfectly with Brown’s sometimes unhinged nasal delivery, whether trading verses over hand claps and free jazz saxophone skronk on the title track’s ode to monopolizing the stereo at parties, or lead single “Lean Beef Patty”s neck-breaking drum and bass breakdowns plus any album that starts with the line “First off, Fuck Elon Musk” is going to have a place in my heart. I have been a fan of Brown’s since his late 00’s debut Hot Soup and have been getting into Jpegmafia’s music more and more over the past couple of years after seeing him make some appearances on AEW Dynamite alongside wrestler/skateboarding death-wish-haver Darby Allin and sampling of the infamous Arn Anderson “I’ve Got The Glock” in ring promo (another pro-wrestling and music-in-the-general-purview-of-this-podcast connection), so I was pretty excited to see that the two of them were working on a project together. I don’t know if this is just a one-off or will lead to an ongoing collaboration but I am sure glad it happened. It’s cool to see different generations of rappers who tread more towards out-there type of sounds teaming up like this so I thought it was really exciting to see this team-up happen and it’s been in heavy rotation since coming out. 

End notes/miscellany:

https://youtu.be/gTujoXAtCys Ritmo Peligroso (Dangerous Rhythm)-Electroshock

https://youtu.be/SoyusTUFdl0 MDC – John Wayne Was A Nazi

https://youtu.be/xs-V906A3aQ Fucked Up – One Day

https://youtu.be/eAEmjW9J3_o Halluci-Nation – Stadium Powwow

https://youtu.be/0Zau_a8e8mY Trapped Under Ice – Pleased To Meet You

https://youtu.be/_hcyxCwGJHw Militarie Gun – Will Logic

First Seven Inch Club Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/first-seven-inch-club-aka-border-boss/id1171603348

No caption necessary, amiright?? #bogmonstermusic

Matt’s Notes

In this case I’m going to refrain from even trying to do anything other than getting this here podcast episode out the door in some fashion! Which is to say, expediently!

I’m sitting here now and I’ll be double danged if I can remember what’s on the list from this time a few weeks going on a couple months ago…

So… rather than reflect too much more! I’ll throw in some really big GIF’s without a whole lot of context and cause they take up PAID PAGE SPACE on this capitalist publishing machine

Sputter, sputter

*Gasp

*

So… here they are! Five GIF’s!

Is this really happening? Does this goof really exist? Do people of substance care?

Magnets… how do they work??

PS… SO MUCH ED TECH SCHADENFREUDE! Like… professional bonfire of the ed tech vanities… at least for some folks… LOL

Gasp… thump… wheeze…

I’m fine… really…

I’ve gone from living in BC to living on the opposite side of the country from my kids pretty rapidly.

As such, I have concerns about Big Foot.

I’m gonna donate significantly to the political party that commits, if winning government or official opposition status, to a public hearing on everything we know about Big Foot in this country.

We deserve to know.

We deserve to know now.

I will donate in the upper three figures to any party or independent candidate who will commit to this publicly in the next round of municipal, provincial, or national governments in their area.

I will only be able to pay you in Canadian dollars via an e-transfer.

No crypto. Sorry.

**To the Woods Media** is an exclusive licensee and franchisee of 506 Consulting (2022) Ltd.

You wake up and you’re just doing all the things you can to get things done!

It’s important!

I’ve always said so.

And I’m living in this rad historical property which is likely not filled with ghosts. At least as such not to bug me yet. But maybe come wintertime?

Guess there’s only one way to find out…

Starts rubbing hands together over a barrel, looking across the street balefully.

How’s anybody supposed to catch a taxi in this kind of weather?

He was concerned lately at how much people talked about the weather. It seemed to happen a lot more than it did in the past. He was convinced of this.

Anyhow, my uncle and aunt drove from Saint John to Halifax to see Oppenheimer on iMAX!

Me, my other uncle, my dad, and my two boys and I…. most of whom haven’t seen each other in years… all went to packed afternoon showing in East Saint John over the weekend…

So it’s pretty goddamned generational as a movie? At least for us…

OK! That’s as much malarkey as I think I can manage for one evening! I will be surely pleased to take a less… haphazard approach… tomorrow.

OH AND I’M WRITING THIS WITH COVID RIGHT NOW SO PIN A MEDAL ON ME

*Finally, I will freely and legitly agree with what either I and/or Dan said or inferred at that point in time!

We are sincerely hopeful that you are enjoying your summer! And there’s actually another of these episodes about ready to go! So… thanks for listening!

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