Various, Laura Veirs, Richard Hawley, Damien Jurado, Fruit Bats, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, The Innocence Mission, Mark Kozelek, Ron Sexsmith, James Yorkston, The Black Heart Procession, Hayden, Mimi Parker, Archer Prewitt, Pale Horse And Rider, Willard Grant Conspiracy

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.