Various, Erik Vincent Huey, Eric Ambel, Too Much Joy, Daly Combat, Teething Veils, The Tall Ships, The Violets, Geisha Hit Squad, Cliff Hillis, Silent Island, Peele Wimberley

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.