Various, Career Suicide, Bad Choice, Purity Control, Snakepit, Mature Situations, Mad Men, School Jerks, Brutal Knights, Molested Youth, Urban Blight, Total Trash, Burning Love, Slobs, Foreign Bodies, Inepsy, Castavets, Vile Intent, Naughty Girls, Dead Wife, Brazen Hell, Bogus Cause, Unruled, Omegas

Toronto Hardcore

Canada's hardest city streak: NYHC muscle, art-school ambition and one band that broke every rule.

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.