Various, The Colors Turned Red, The Tunicates, Femi Gange, Make Up, Couldn't Happen Here, Crawdaddy Simone, Russian Amcar Club, Ping Pop, Follow That Dream, The Last Detail, deLillos, Helter Skelter

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.