Various, East Bay Ray, The Faction, Frontside Five, Mike Watt + the Secondmissingmen, The Rudy Schwartz Project, The Father Figures, The Lonesome Ones, Jonny Two Bags, Reno Divorce, The Plain Dealers, Just Because, Scarcity Of Tanks, Dirty Filthy Mugs, Minus One, Ringwald, Downtown Brown, McRad, Agression, The Bots, Dave Bedore, Johnny D

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.