Various, Ed Kuepper, Commander Cody, Duster Bennett, The Idle Strand, The Seeds, Link Wray, The Music Machine, The Dead Boys, What If, Tom Robinson, Semantics, Duane Eddy

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.