Various, Fucked Up, Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile, Yo La Tengo, Jay Reatard, Times New Viking, Harlem, Ted Leo / Pharmacists, The New Pornographers, Cold Cave, Interpol, Shearwater, Esben And The Witch, Girls, Magic Kids, Delorean, Cat Power, Perfume Genius, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

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.