The NYHC Book Interview

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The NYHC Book Interview

Chris T. turns the tables on author Tony Rettman

Sep 19, 2023

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This NIHILISTIC Pod features an interview first heard on my talk show Aerial View March 19, 2021. Tony Rettman, author of NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980 – 1990, was my guest and I turned the tables on him. Tony had interviewed me at length for the book (there’s an entire chapter on the Nihilistics) and now it was his turn in the hot seat. We cover a wide range of subjects, so enjoy.

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Chris T. – founder of seminal NYHC band NIHILISTICS – takes you on the journey to publication of NIHILISTIC: How a hardcore band saved my life... then nearly killed me – "A memoir with guitar" – is a coming-of-age cautionary tale following two forlorn, friendless, dead-end suburban “Lawn Guyland” fat kids who form a band and end up on the legendary stages of the NYHC (New York Hardcore) scene. We see how each interpret the lessons of their particular moment and the way success in their milieu warps their friendship until one tries to murder the other.

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