Various, Virginia's Wolves, Velvet Crisis, Glitch Magnet, Dada Women, The Wonky Portraits, Ruby Psyclone, Venus Attax, The Wonky Portraits, Virginia's Wolves, The Verinos, Dada Women, Velvet Crisis

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.