Various, Dead Silence, Everready, Nitwits, Lesser Of Two, Red Number Nine, M Blanket, Dryrot, Preachers That Lie, Contropotere, Klamydia, Buttafuoco, Roil, Stressboy, Krupted Peasant Farmerz, Mohinder, The Curbs, Apeface, Nothing To Lose, Fuckboyz

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.