Various, Screeching Weasel, Kramer, Sister Double Happiness, Babe The Blue Ox, Toadies, Twitch, Lester Vegas, Ten Bright Spikes, Girls Against Boys, Prisonshake, The Flaming Lips, Pitchblende, The Vindictives, Mind Over Matter, Swell, Crust, Down By Law, Treepeople, Samiam, Small, Jawbox, Ritual Device, Mousetrap, Severin, Gnome, John's Black Dirt

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.