Various, Angelic Upstarts, Nabat, The Oppressed, Skacha, N.N. All Stars, Brickwall United, Klaxon, Red Alert, Attila The Stockbroker, Stage Bottles, Klasse Kriminale, The Templars, Red London, Drunken Nuns, Sham 69

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.