Various, The Enemy, Lethal Bizzle, Roll Deep, Helsinki, The View, Hard-Fi, M.I.A., Bloc Party, Diplo, Carbon/Silicon, Natty, Babyshambles, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, The Charlatans, Dirty Pretty Things, Albert Hammond Jr., Blood Red Shoes, Manu Chao, Mecca 2 Medina, Akala, Nine Black Alps, Biffy Clyro, New Young Pony Club, Billy Bragg, Ian McLagan, Maxïmo Park, Statik, Fionn Regan, Noisettes, Johnny Flynn, The Sussex Wit, Skream

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.