Various, Gleet, Mayor McCa, Frank Black And The Catholics, Treble Charger, Smoother, Sianspheric, Eric's Trip, Hayden, Tristan Psionic, The New Grand, Shallow North Dakota, Danko Jones, Thrush Hermit, Kittens, Tricky Woo, Chore, Tangiers, A Northern Chorus, The Ghost Is Dancing, Ringo Deathstarr, Oh Susanna, Dinner Belles, Kestrels, Slowcoaches, Terra Lightfoot, Basement Revolver, The Dinner Is Ruined Band, Strongman, Simply Saucer, Raising The Fawn, Young Rival, Camouflage Nights

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.