Various, Silver Convention, Jack De Mello And East West Connection, Donna Summer, The Blackbyrds, Lee Gagnon, Charlie Calello, The Sons Of Champlin, The Soul Disco Machine, Parliament, Angel, Dubrovački Trubaduri, The Stylistics, Kiss, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dr. Dragon & The Oriental Express, Bobby Thomas, The Hotline

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.