Various, Eton Crop, Requiem, Surfin' Dave & The B'Nee Teas, Sweet Life, The Mighty Clifton Brothers, Chinese Gangster Element, Wild Willi Beckett, The Word, The Three Johns, Chronic, The Ex, Seven Antelopes, The Convulsions, Dirk Spig, Household Name

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Boston Alternative

College radio, cheap rehearsal rooms and loud guitars: the US underground's most literate, least glamorous engine room.