Various, Nervous Christians, Blackjack, Hardship, Lemon Grove Kids, Spider Babies, Gun Pro, 4Q, Procrastinators, The Weaklings, The Detonators, Apartment 3G, The Öbliteräted, Detestation, The Automatics, Incinerators, The Lucky Thirteens, 8-Foot Tender, Antiworld, The Jimmies, Absolute Zero, Negative Ways

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.