Various, Fuck Yeah Babies, Dialectics, M - Section, Decent Criminal, Ryan Keller, Screaming Mimis, TV.Static, Dirty Few, Grim Deeds, Bad Cop/Bad Cop

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.