Various, Skull Drug, Year of the Fist, C28, Kevin Kilfeather, The Adderalls, Happy Campers, False Cause, Silent Opposition, Ink Bomb, Kapital Punishment, KRovak, Alan Six, Assassination Squad, William Neal

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.