Various, Public Safety, Love Songs, Sarchasm, Decent Criminal, Dandelion Massacre, Skank Bank, Crowd 9, La Plebe, The Pathogens, Dog Party, Heartless Folk, Cronander, Demi & The Gods, Day Labor

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.