Various, The Green Pajamas, The Icons, Pip McCaslin, Al Bloch, The Walkabouts, Melting Fish, Arms Akimbo, Fastbacks, Danger Bunny, The Queen Annes, Prudence Dredge, The Elements, Bombardiers, Tom Dyer

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.