Various, Dave Alvin, Blue Movie, Sky Saxon, The Seeds, Duster Bennett, NRBQ, Mason Proffit, Big Star, The Nighthawks, The Siegel-Schwall Band, Amen Corner, Country Joe McDonald, P.P. Arnold

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.