Various, Abrasive Wheels, One Way System, Destructors, The Expelled, The Samples, Angelic Upstarts, The Vibrators, The Exploited, The Ejected, Chron Gen, Violators, Resistance 77, Major Accident, Riot Squad, The Blood

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.