Various, Blyth Power, Persuasion, Black Cillas, Menticide, Thatcher On Acid, Children Held Hostage, We Are Going To Eat You, Stump, Saviours Of Pop Music, Stitched-Back Foot Airman, The Fifteenth, A Strange Desire, Resistance, Only Connect, The Laughing Mothers, Brad Is Sex

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.