Various, Traffik Island, Leah Senior, Sam Cooper, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Mr. Teenage, Civic, Stonefield, Bitch Diesel, The Slingers, Baked Beans, Montero, Tim Presley's White Fence, Maston

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.