Various, The 3355409's, Hand In Glove, The Practical Householders, Backwards Into Paradise, Dump The Dummy, Jamie Cotton Band, Azure Days, Cypress Mine, The Lawnmowers, The Panic Merchants, The Wave Assembly, Randall Skillet, Idol Joy, At Gunpoint

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.