Various, The Viletones, No Fun, The Red Squares, Active Dog, Private School, The Braineaters, The Forgotten Rebels, The Bureaucrats, Modernettes, The Sturgeons, The Hot Nasties, Silicone Injection, The Presence, Pink Steel, Curtains, The Rage, Culture Shock, Negro Jazz Funeral

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.