Various, All Hope Remains, Driven Fear, Fake News, Fire Sale, Goldenboy, The Great Awake, Hack The Mainframe, Knife Hands, The Last Mile, Le Rayes, Nerdlinger, Pat Decline, Rat Salad, Shot Clock

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.