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- Peter Buck
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American rock band
R.E.M. marked the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. Their first single, 1981's "Radio Free Europe," sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground and brought guitar pop back into the underground lexicon. Combining ringing guitar hooks with mumbled, cryptic lyrics and a D.I.Y. aesthetic borrowed from post-punk, the band simultaneously sounded... Wikipedia