Various, Rigid With Desire, Mustard Club, The Snorkels, The Leftovers, Bobby Sox, The Introverts, The Johnnys, Fiction Romance, Big Red Tractor, Trench Gashes, Hoi Polloi, The Jaguars, Skolars, Soggy Porridge

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.