The Runaways

Blackmail / Cherry Bomb / American Nights / Secrets

1976 · Hard Rock · Mercury

Germany · 6253 042

Credits

Producer: Kim Fowley
Written by: Joan Jett, Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony, Cherie Currie, Kari Krome, Sandy West

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.