Various, Expendables, Bird Nest Roys, Kim Blackburn, Headless Chickens, The Pterodactyls, Chris Knox, Children's Hour, The Kiwi Animal, The Fold, Able Tasmans, Nick Smith, Goblin Mix, Fetus Productions, Martin Phillipps

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.