Various, The Mockers, The Swingers, The Newmatics, New Entrants, Famous Five, The Instigators, Toy Love, The Screaming Meemees, Danse Macabre, The Corners, Blue Asthmatics, The Bongos, She Collapsed, Riot 111

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.