Various, Hoodoo Gurus, Crash Test Dummies, The Wedding Present, Drunken Boat, Divine Weeks, Carnival Art, The Primitives, Young Fresh Fellows, Odds, Clockhammer, Henry Rollins

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.