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!

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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