Various, The Checks, The Blue Van, Crosbi, Cazals, The Black Keys, Little Barrie, The Gossip, The Chalets, Nerves, Hoggboy, Dragontears, The Superimposers, The Black Hollies, Girl Trouble, Dinosaur Jr., The Clientele, 747s, The Sights, The Dirtbombs, The Flaming Sideburns, The Mystery Girls

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.