Various, Slice Of Life, Crashed Out, Desperate Measures, UK Subs, Subhumans, STEADFAST HTX, The Last Gang, The Indestructible Beat, Citizen Fish, NOT, Black Star Brigade, The Drowns, Suzi Moon, Suedehead

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.