Various, Teenage Bottlerocket, Western Addiction, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, C.J. Ramone, The Bombpops

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.