After a five-year hiatus, Newburgh local Holly Berchielli’s zine Outsider returns with a new issue documenting the Hudson Valley’s hardcore scene.
By Marc Ferris
When hardcore punk rock exploded in the late 1970s with short, loud, fast outbursts of often anti-melodic fury, it appealed to outcasts and middle-class misfits who thought corporate music sucked. The aural assaults extended a sonic middle finger at disco, new wave, prog rock, classic rock, and keyboard-oriented pop.…

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