Various, Kalima, The Entire Population Of China, Carla Lane, Gone To Earth, Pop, Dick And Harry, Frank Chickens, Attrition, Josi Without Colours, Cleaners From Venus, Captain Sensible

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.