Various, The Boils, Not Your Friends, Stressboy, Plow United, Reject, True Zero, Cabin Boy, The Pins, 2.5 Children Inc, Wally, Jake And The Stiffs, Third Year Freshman, Super Hi Five, Peepshow, Boysetsfire, The Halflings, The Abreacts, Spongegod

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.