Various, Circle Jerks, Agent Orange, Social Distortion, The Crowd, U.X.A., Redd Kross, Baby Buddha, F-Word!, Los Microwaves, Channel 3, Black Flag, Simpletones, Shattered Faith, T.S.O.L., Stepmothers, The Nuns

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.