Various, Love And Rockets, John Crystal, Spitting Image, They Might Be Giants, Instant Beer, Robyn Hitchcock, Dr. Robert Bowman, Roy Blount, Jr., Beastie Boys, Coffee Achievers

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.