Various, The Verge, The Verge, Dust Collection, Dead Nats, Primitive Painters, The Garden Path, The Spikes, The Mad Turks From Istanbul, On Heat, The Plague, Primevils, Primevils, Exploding White Mice

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.