Various, Nantucket, Nantucket, Ms. Treat, Silver Moon Band, Wysper, Wysper, Bonnie Gringo Band, Skydancing, Toca, Dr. Fu And Po-Zess-Shun, Dr. Fu And Po-Zess-Shun, The Brewed, The Brewed, Freedom, Topaz

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.