Various, The Roky Aliens, The Losers, The Razorblade, Ronnie Urini, The Key, Freak Weber & Die Sackratten, Future Blues, Die Brüder, Venus, Passepartout, The Thorns, Astaron, Venus of Willendorf

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.