Various, Mary-Go-Round, This Perfect Day, Vilhelm Fort, This Conrete, West European Politics, Holger Danske, The Boom Band, Livingstone, Woulfedog, The Misantropes, Waterheads, The Waiting Rain, Nuclear 45

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.