Various, Life, The Slow Readers Club, Idles, Black Midi, Dan Lyons, Gaz Coombes, Flamingods, Trudy and the Romance, Horsey, Husky Loops, Fizzy Blood, Honey Hahs, Hotel Lux, Nadine Shah, Blue Rose Code, Jeff Horton

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.