Various, Germs, Kaos, The Dils, The Skulls, Controllers, Germs, Controllers, Eyes, Kaos, The Skulls

Los Angeles Punk & Hardcore

Hollywood art-damage flips into beach-city hardcore: faster, shorter, louder, and documented on camera the whole way.

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.