Various, Verve, Free Radicals, Builders, Paul Sutherland, Gong Double, Bill Direen, Barry Stockley, Trephines, Sparky's Magic Baton, Three Men Missing, The Letter 5, Neil Jones, Trephines, Soluble Fish

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.