Various, The Long Winters, The Shins, Thee Emergency, The Black Angels, The Shackeltons, Ghostland Observatory, Lady Sovereign, The Gossip, Fujiya & Miyagi, Hot Chip, The Beat, Peter Bjorn And John, Anathallo, Frank Black, Billy Bragg, Cloud Cult, Grizzly Bear, Beirut, Under Byen

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.