Various, The Blue Toys, Mike Starkey, Cardboard Cutouts, Coma Cou, Mike Starkey, Murphy's Law, Noise Like Noise, Sheer Pride, Mike Starkey, The Hop, Leopold Bloom, Faya Largeau

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.