Various, The Mobile Whorehouse, On Target, Zonk, Union Carbide Productions, Sort Sol, Omnitron, New Clear Family, Oven And Stove, Eld, In The Colonnades, White Stains

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.