Various, The Stooges, The Beau Brummels, Rainbow Red Oxidizer, The Shadows Of Knight, The Modern Lovers, The Taxi Boys, Mason Proffit, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy

Detroit Proto-Punk

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

Detroit Garage Revival

Two-guitars-no-bass primitivism, soul covers played wrong, and 7-inches pressed a thousand at a time.

Northeast Ohio Punk

Two rust-belt cities, thirty miles apart, inventing punk and art-damage at the same time.