Various, Lambchop, Madrugada, Neil McNasty, The Webb Brothers, Calexico, Valérie Leulliot, Johnny Dowd, Saint Etienne, Nathan Bennett, St. Thomas, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley, Erlend Øye, The Amazing Pilots, Kathryn Williams, Tindersticks, Stephen Jones, Luke Scott, Calvin Johnson, Mark Pickerel, Evan Dando, Sabrina Brooke, Kid Loco, Tim Keegan

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.