Various, The Slugs, The Sneetches, Shoes, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Farmers, Material Issue, Trenchmouth, The Reivers, No Empathy, The Sinatras, The Service, Young Fresh Fellows, Spies Who Surf, New Duncan Imperials, 13 Nightmares, M.O.T.O., God's Acre, Poster Children, Cheer-Accident, Boom Hank, Mojo Nixon, The Second Edition

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.