Various, The dB's, Ed Kuepper, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, That Petrol Emotion, 39 Steps, Walking Wounded, The Rave-Ups, Camper Van Beethoven, The Feelies, Billy Bragg, Willie Alexander, The Doctors Children, Blue Movie

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.