Various, Camera Face, Blind Robbins, The Crabs, St. Johnny, Kentucy Hams, Alice Donut, Giant Metal Insects, Dash Board Mary, Monsterland, Things Fingers, The Gravel Pit

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.