Various, The V-Roys, Black Boot Trio, Ray Condo & His Hardrock Goners, The Shivers, Golden Smog, Bonepony, The Flaming Stars, Furnaceface, Cake, Lambchop, Freakwater, Uncle Tupelo, The Vidalias, Coal Porters, Medicine Hat, Go To Blazes, Chris Cacavas & Junkyard Love, Toni Price, The Beat Farmers, Bad Livers, Sparklehorse, Townes Van Zandt, Greg Garing, Mojo Nixon, Jello Biafra, Don 'The Unknown Cowboy'

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.