Various, Ben Kweller, The Raveonettes, Death Cab For Cutie, Rose Hill Drive, Cake, The Walkmen, Rogue Wave, The Dandy Warhols, Oranger, The Flaming Lips, Clem Snide, Milton Mapes, Phantom Planet

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.