Various, Lithium X-Mas, The Underneath, Hash Palace, Burnin Rain, Otherside, Fish Eye Lens, Burnin Rain, Sacred Seeds, Texas Fog Society, Twin Freaks

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.