Various, The Let's Go's, The Robots, The Mobile Mob Freakshow, Mother Superior, The Hunch, The Hymans, The Hellacopters, Richies, The Destitutes, Loud Pipes

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.