Various, The O'Malleys, Private World, Tuesday Blue, Up The Downstairs, They Do It With Mirrors, The Seperators, The Drive, Toucandance, Perfect Moment, The Surrealists, The Hitchers, Big John's Bootleggin' Band, Utopian Puppets, X-IT

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.