Various, Plain Wrap, Massmedia, Naked Lady Wrestlers, Intestines, Ticks, The Essentials, The Enemy, Gregor Mackenzie, The Misanthropes, 222's, The Sods, Subverts, Hand Grenades, Dangerous Girls, Električni Orgazam, Wards, Gaznevada, Breakouts, The Cigarettes, Geza X, Idoli

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.