Various, 5 Sides Collide, Dogs And Men, Terry Lee Hale, The Ones, Pure Joy, Vexed, Clay Alien, Melting Fish, The Walkabouts, Bundle Of Hiss, Feast, Cunninghams, Room Nine

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.