Various, Ice Cube, Ice Cube, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Mista Grimm, Raphael Saadiq, Tori Amos, The Brand New Heavies, Cole Hauser, Michael Rapaport, Rage Against The Machine, OutKast, Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Zhané, Eve's Plum, Stanley Clarke

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.