Jon Savage, Pere Ubu, Chrome, Nigel Simpkins, Subway Sect, File Under Pop, Cabaret Voltaire, The Prefects, Mars, Rosa Yemen, A.C. Marias, Kleenex, Noh Mercy, The Flying Lizards, The Human League, Wire, Joy Division, Thomas Leer, Robert Rental, Urinals, The Method Actors, Rema-Rema, DNA, Implog

Bay Area Punk

Art-school sarcasm, slowed-down sludge and speed-freak hardcore, all pressed within a few miles of each other.

Northeast Ohio Punk

Two rust-belt cities, thirty miles apart, inventing punk and art-damage at the same time.

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.