Various, Be Your Own Pet, Black Tide, Switches, Your Vegas, PlayRadioPlay!, Ludo, Yoav, Ryan Bingham, One Flew South, Hayes Carll, Tift Merritt, Shelby Lynne, The SteelDrivers, Kathleen Edwards, Whiskeytown

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.