Hard Lessons: A Crash Course in New York Hardcore

A thorough, albeit deeply biased, history of one of my hometown's most glorious exports: New York Hardcore. If you think I missed anything, please feel free to break my balls in the comments! Check out my live stream with Danny Diablo aka Lord Ezec and Paul Delaney (Black Anvil) here: https://bit.ly/3Wk4UcG Check me out singing Bad Brains' 'Sacred Love' with Mackie, Todd Youth, and Melvin Gibbs here:    • Charlie Looker - Sacred Love (Bad Brains T...   👉 Many thanks to my PATREON patrons! Consider becoming one here:   / lastthingspodcast   👉 If you'd like to join my Discord server, you can request an invitation here: https://www.charlielooker.com/join 👉 Sign up for the Last Things Newsletter here : http://eepurl.com/do92G5 0:00 Intro 1:55 How I got into NYHC 8:10 NYHC in general 10:25 Pre-NYHC, punk 11:10 Early NYHC, 1980 - 83 14:59 Classic NYHC, 1983 - 87 22:53 Politics? 24:23 Late 80s/Early 90s, the metal element 27:30 ABC No Rio vs CBs 29:54 Youth Crew / Straight Edge 33:06 Krishna-core 33:32 Mid-late 90s, beatdown 38:17 NY Post-Hardcore 39:57 2000s 42:10 2010s and the future 46:04 Outro