Various, Sham 69, 4 Skins, Splodgenessabounds, Angelic Upstarts, The Blood, The Last Resort, The Exploited, Cock Sparrer, Menace, Blitz, The Business, Combat 84, Cockney Rejects, The Partisans

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.