Various, Lousy Advice, Strangers, Middle-Aged Queers, Badvril, Nobody's Baby, Sweeties, Keira Donnelly, Heavy Seas, Tulpa Luna, Sarchasm, Danger Inc., Jonah Matranga, Preschool

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.