Various, The Mavis's, The Swarm, Scarecrow Tiggy, Feline Touch, Pray TV, Stone Circus, Clowns Smiling Backwards, Slub, The Bird Dissolves, Seven, Practical Folk Music, International Christmas Pudding

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.