Various, Captain 9's & The Knickerbocker Trio, Elmer, 3 Finger Spread, 23 More Minutes, The Bananas, Nar, Lizards, Krupted Peasant Farmerz, Horny Mormons, Mothermayi, Sluggo, Guano, Plaid Retina, False Sacrament, Glass Babble Radio, Natural Cause, Sarabellum, Buzzov•en, Econochrist, Logical Nonsense, Grimple, Raooul, The Royal Scam, Pounded Clown, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Sea Pigs, Schlong, Motherload, The Gr'ups, Los Huevos, Yahweh's Mistake, Lazy Boy, Pinhead Gunpowder

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.