Various, Jimi Hendrix, The Postal Service, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beck, The Raconteurs, Dynamite Hack, The Smashing Pumpkins, Ramones

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.