Various, Degeneration, The Hardknocks, Wartribe, The Warlords, Ramblin' Firm, Charles Brigade, The Young Idea, The Old Breed, Bad Assets, Footsoldier, The Fighting 48th, The Short-Timers, Wolf Bites Boy, The Butchers, Wartribe

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.