Various, The Standells, Gene Vincent, The Deviants, The Pink Fairies, Mott The Hoople, The Monks, Zolar X, Sun Ra, MC5, UP, Death, David Peel & The Lower East Side, The Silhouettes, Suicide, The Last Poets, New York Dolls, The Dictators, Dr. Feelgood, Peter Hammill, Can, Hollywood Brats, The Saints, Culture

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.