Various, Green Day, Culture Shock, Omega Tribe, Cress, Dirt, Contramenation, Korrupt, Hiatus, Nations On Fire, Sedition, Coexist, Fleas And Lice, Aus-Rotten, Homomilitia, Ebola, Disaffect, Oi Polloi, Nausea, Dropdead, Upright Citizens

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.