Various, Die Hallucinogen Mouse, Gregg G. Brown, Synthetic Socks, Existential Moped, Hillary Smith, Jon Davies, Harry Maxson, Die Hallucinogen Mouse, The Laughing Soup Dish, Synthetic Socks, Jack Monahan, X Men, Scott Lowe, Mr. Forklift, Superfinemagneticparticle, Thomas Reiter, Mode/IQ

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.