Various, Stavesacre, Living Sacrifice, MxPx, Puller, Strongarm, Slick Shoes, Klank, Focal Point, The Cootees, ZAO, Upside Down Room, Ninety Pound Wuss, Training for Utopia, Blindside, Roadside Monument, Overcome, Crux, Innermeans, Warlord, Ghoti Hook, Everdown

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.