Various, Twister, Fat Daddy, 69ers, Head, Chook, Sparkle, Toxic, The Ash Band, U-Turn, Geeza, Bullet, Macarthur, King Harvest

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.