Various, Compulsion, Nick Calloway, All About Eve, Straw Dogs, Just Deluxe, Legende, Bamboo, The Suspects, Richard Cooper & D.S.L., The Push, The Tenfoots, Blue Sedans, Doug Alexander, Derick Greenrose, Idrah, Palm Tree Club, Curious Dream, Katy Meaby, Rob Parrett, The Face, Modern Art, Foreign Exchange, Perfect Strangers, Confined Spaces, Drey Grade

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.