Various, The Business, Five O, The Strike, Subculture, Crux, The Warriors, Attak, Black Flag, Arthur & The Afters, Frankie And The Flames, The Gonads, Attila The Stockbroker, Judge Dread, Skin Graft, Attila The Stockbroker, The Blood

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.