Various, The Innocence Mission, Joanna Newsom, Antony And The Johnsons, Mice Parade, Shione Yukawa, Shugo Tokumaru, 森は生きている, Kazumi Nikaido

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.