Various, Days N' Daze, The Bombpops, The Suicide Machines, Lagwagon, Face To Face, Get Dead, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Make War, Western Addiction, Pears, NOFX

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.