Various, Daniel Ash, The Soup Dragons, The Soup Dragons, L.A. Star, Pixies, James, Lush, The Charlatans, Paris, Buffalo Tom, Goat, Cocteau Twins, Ruby Blue, Dead Can Dance, The Jazz Butcher, The Jazz Butcher, Martin Stephenson And The Daintees, Bootsauce, The Fall, Hothouse Flowers, Anne Dudley, Jaz Coleman, Was (Not Was)

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.