Various, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Whale, The Afghan Whigs, Helmet, Spiritualized, Letters To Cleo, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Lemonheads, Violent Femmes, Gumball, Spin Doctors, Seed, This Picture, Lightning Seeds, Electrafixion, April's Motel Room, Dinosaur Jr., Toad The Wet Sprocket, Echobelly, K's Choice, Oasis, Ride, Big Head Todd And The Monsters, The Family Cat, Crash Test Dummies, Certain Distant Suns, Junkhouse, Frente!

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.