Various, Pain!, Fuck You Pay Me, The Mud City Manglers, The Independents, Sourpuss, The Downstrokes, Last Call Hooligans, The Undead, The Alements, Dogjaw, Nightmare Sonata, Red Anger, Capital Offender, Defiant Brood, Getaway Car, Ghost Road, Like No Tomorrow, The Nuclears, Broken Radios

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.