Various, Nineteen Eighty Four, Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Broken Bones, Foxy, Gina Simmons And The Nobodies, The Bolokos, Gunners, Charge 69, The Outcasts, Mercredi, Nixed, Abuse, Motel Transylvania, Sordid Ship, DeafBrood, Mau Maus, Husbands 'N' Knives

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.