Various, We Are Trees, Tashaki Miyaki, Teen Daze, Triptides, French Films, Keep Shelly In Athens, His Clancyness, Porcelain Raft, Casa Del Mirto, Death In Plains

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.