Various, Joanna Stingray, The Smithereens, Al Sacharov, Doctor & The Medics, Isaac Tigrett, Iggy Pop, Peter Lake, Michael Peppe, John Stockwell, Peter Gordon

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.