Everything’s The Velvet Underground. The lineage of all rock, including shimmerly jangle pop like R.E.M. or The Clean, can be traced back to The Velvet Underground. I put together this playlist chronologically following the path of influence from The VU down to modern artists like Mac Demarco and new artists making interesting jangly rock out of Chicago like Good Flying Birds and Sharp Pins.

Alex Ross has an excellent article about the influence of artists from New Zealand on much bigger bands like R.E.M.