Various, The Primitives, The Fixx, Melissa Etheridge, Dreams So Real, Midge Ure, The Proclaimers, The Triffids, The Church, Julian Cope, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Tom Cochrane, Red Rider, The Pursuit Of Happiness

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.