Various, Foam, The Pre-Nods, Heart Attack Kids, Terminal Licks, Zex, Chloroform, Strange Attractor, The Noble Savages, Familiar Fiends, Bullshit Hardcore Band, Excelsior, Battlewulf, First Base, Paul Jacobs

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.