Various, Silent Screams, Twenty Four Hours, Men Of Lake, Dead Letter Office, Lacrima Christi, Thee Trouble, Davide Riccio, Fragment, Les Enfants Terribles, Nicola Fornelli, Dick Dastarbly Band, Waiting Life, The Groovers, Thee Stolen Cars, Nomea, Crollo Nervoso, Black Flowers

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.