Various, Peter Hurst, One Last Fight, Ryan, Two's A Crowd, Crikey It's The Cromptons, Gone To Earth, Innocents Abroad, Fairground, Jactars, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Decemberists, Magic Carpets, Beyond All Means, The DaVincis, Peter Hurst, Brian N. Smithers

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.