Various, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth, Cabaret Voltaire, Josef K, Motörhead, Orange Juice, Fire Engines, The Mekons, Gang Of Four, The Freshies, Aztec Camera, The Damned, The Three Johns, Newtown Neurotics, Redskins, Colourbox, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, The Normal, The House Of Love, The Loft, The Pogues, The Triffids, The Smiths, Robert Wyatt, ...And The Native Hipsters, The Cramps, R.E.M., The Specials, Dead Kennedys, The Southern Death Cult, The Cult, The Primitives, Jonathan Richman, James, The Fall, Pop Will Eat Itself, This Mortal Coil, New Order

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.