Checkmate

Only Fools Pretend To Be Happy / Week-End, Bloody Week-End

1979 · Punk · Sweet Harmony

France · N.W. 14000

Credits

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.