Various, The Swingers, Split Enz, Pop Mechanix, Geoff Chunn, DD Smash, Penknife Glides, Graeme Gash, Spaces, Toy Love, The Screaming Meemees, Blam Blam Blam, Rank & File, The Newmatics, Danse Macabre, Hip Singles, The Crocodiles

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.