Various, The Growlers, Zig Zags, The Soft Pack, Meat Market, FIDLAR, Dum Dum Girls, Cherry Glazerr, Ty Segall, Colleen Green, Father John Misty, Aaron Embry, Chris Dye, Alessandro Cortini

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.