Various, The Mr. T Experience, Youth Gone Mad, Gargoyles, Neil Smith, Pink Lincolns, Screeching Weasel, The Queers

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.