Various, pôt-pot, Crying Loser, Ana Palindrome, I Dreamed I Dream, Landless, Using Clay, Noble beast, Danny Carroll, The Deadlians, Old Sport, Robbie Stickland, Muckno, Stratford Rise, Hands Up Who Wants To Die, Licehead, Eros Blindfold, Caskré, RÓIS, E The Artist, Rún, The PVP, Elaine Malone

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.