Various, 1981, The Rebel Spell, The Furloughs, Bad Sam, Arctic Flowers, Fracaso, Knuste Ruter, Agent Attitude, 40 Hells, Hygiene, Night Birds, Ruidosa Inmundicia, Burnt Cross, Off With Their Heads, Destruye, Huye, Krea, Endless Grinning Skulls, Vengeance, Pettybone, The Estranged, Burning Sensation

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.