Various, Bound & Gagged, Playthings, Twelve Cubic Feet, Sporten Är Död, Elektrochok, No Man's Land, Kyah, Pink Plastic & Panties, Paraf, Alaska Y Los Pegamoides, Edith Nylon, The Delinquents, Östro 430, Technycolor, Mydolls, Ixna

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

Austin Post-Rock

Instrumental Texas music built on patience: guitars that swell instead of riff, drone that behaves like weather.