Various, Calexico, Tracy Shedd, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Juarez, L'Orange, Dr. Dog, Naïm Amor, Acorn Bcorn, Xixa, The Resonars, Hannah Yeun, Soda Sun, Amos Lee

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.