Various, Silent Rage, Johnny 7, Nerve X, Jesus Couldn't Drum, Pleasure In Pink, Orion, The Shout!, The Sleeping Pictures, The Red, Wandering Souls, Skin Side Out, Sugar Glyders, Mex, Jesus Couldn't Drum

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.