Various, Three On A Hill, Decadent Dub Team, The Buck Pets, Shallow Reign, Reverend Horton Heat, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, The Trees, End Over End, The Daylights, The Legendary Revelations

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.