Various, Submission Hold, Kid Dynamite, Eulcid, Stephen Brodsky, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Onelinedrawing, Rocky Votolato, Homage To Catalonia, Last Days Of April, Jane Speed, Bluebird, Sharks Keep Moving

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.