Various, Shower Of Bastards, The Domestics, Childe, Skinners, Nasty Bastard, Ratraven, Boycott The Baptist, Dis-Tank, Brainfreeze, 51st State, The Migraines, Forced Existence, The Shorts, Volunteers

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.