Various, Blue Ruin, The Wreckery, Not Drowning, Waving, Steve Lucas, The Hollowmen, Joysticks, Honeymoon In Green, These Future Kings, David Chesworth, The Odolites, Sea Stories, An Ordinary Field

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.