Various, Static Vision, Paper Tigers, Undercover Martians, The Rivers, Concrete Twin, Check Please!, Turnstiles, WAXX, Nixer, Keith Mosfet, Moondog, Kid Slang

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.