Various, Plastic Crimewave Syndicate, ONO, Werewheels, Toupée, Underground Symposium, Cherrystones, Mark Fry, Nick Garrie, Edgar Broughton, Energy Gown, Makoto Kawabata, Dark Fog, Shriekback, Jon Seagroatt, Ian Staples, Bobbie Watson, Alexander Tucker, Dead Wood, Matthew Shaw, The Hypnotic Eye, Shriekback, Shriekback, Unhome, Unhome, Unhome, Unhome

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

Austin Post-Rock

Instrumental Texas music built on patience: guitars that swell instead of riff, drone that behaves like weather.