Various, Temper Temper, Skid Rose, Guy Le Claire, The Pump, White As Red, The Brookes, Not Picasso, Cruise Control, All Bar One, Pure Drama

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.