Various, The Lillingtons, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Direct Hit!, Teenage Bottlerocket, toyGuitar, Darius Koski, The Bombpops, Pears, The Last Gang, Western Addiction, The Mean Jeans, Strung Out

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.