Various, No Alternative, Flipper, The Tools, VKTMS

Bay Area Punk

Art-school sarcasm, slowed-down sludge and speed-freak hardcore, all pressed within a few miles of each other.

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.