Various, Bodysnatchers, Skunks, Young Identities, Proles, Public Execution, The Press, The Thought Criminals, Wrong Kind Of Stone Age, The Vacant Lot, Sputniks, Just Urbain, Tactics, Quick And The Dead, Z-Cars, Section Urbane, Rejex, The Chosen Few

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.