Various, Jar Of Blind Flies, Modessa, Bones Ate Arfa, Could Be Ghosts, Epsom Salts, FUZZTAZER, Kalopsia, Room 3, Slimy Bench, Bacci Pouch, The Wrong Trousers, Jeff Ubetcha, Austin Showers, Crimson, Jack Smith, Sonic Crush

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.