Various, Abrasive Wheels, One Way System, Newtown Neurotics, UK Subs, Destructors, The Expelled, The Samples, Angelic Upstarts, The Adicts, The Vibrators, The Exploited, Urban Dogs, The Ejected, Chron Gen, Action Pact, Violators

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.