Various, Rats Blood, Surge, The Blow Ins, Grit, The Whole Sick, Sissy, R.A.Z.O.R., Dowth, Strong Boys, Disguise, Badb, Extravision, Pożoga, Vena Kava, Żona Zła, Electric Bill And The Meter Readers, The Objectorz, Putrefaction

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.