Various, Berlin Blackouts, Peter Bywaters, Paranoid Visions, Billyclub, The Stitches, The Homobiles, Dwarves, Vice Squad, MDC, Dragster, The DeRellas, Sykotic Tendencies, Sweeping Promises, The Departed, Subhumans, The 1865, Western Addiction, Blitzkrieg, John Cooke, Avengers, Nixed, Funeral Dress, Gomme

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.