Various, Ice Cream Band, Front Page, The Young Lords, The Cut, Pedal O'Dahli, Saturday Cowboys, 97434 Johansen, Lars Kilevold, Ole I Dole, Flimmer Twins, Ghostriders, deLillos, The Tom Russell Band, Rovers, Somebody's Darling, Midnight Choir, Flying Norwegians, Tine Valand, Madrugada, Whipping Post, Paal Flaata, Luke Elliot, Iain Matthews, The Salmon Smokers

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.