Various, Womanhaters, Severe, Menthol Wars, Defnics, The Dark, The Styrenes, Invisibles, Lab Rats, Keith Matic, Jazz Destroyers, Offbeats, Pagans, Red Decade, John Lovsin, Easter Monkeys

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.