Various, Grizzly Bear, Tallies, Garden Centre, Honey Cutt, The Natvral, Surfer Blood, The Depreciation Guild, Hockey Dad, Honey Lung, Pearl Charles, Living Hour, Weeping Icon

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.