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Alternative rock is a broad umbrella for guitar-based rock that emerged from the independent and college-radio scenes as a counterpoint to mainstream, commercial rock.

New wave is a broad, pop-oriented umbrella for styles that emerged in the mid-to-late 1970s as a sleeker, more melodic outgrowth of punk culture.

Art rock is a branch of rock music that treats the studio and the album as spaces for artistic experimentation, emphasizing conceptual ideas, ambitious arrangements, and cross-pollination with modernist and avant-garde traditions.

Hard rock is a loud, riff-driven style of rock music built around heavily amplified electric guitars, a powerful rhythm section, and assertive vocals. Songs typically center on memorable, blues-based guitar riffs, strong backbeats, and energetic, often shouted or belted choruses.

Rock is a broad family of popular music centered on amplified instruments, a strong backbeat, and song forms that foreground riffs, choruses, and anthemic hooks.

Electronic is a broad umbrella genre defined by the primary use of electronically generated or electronically processed sound. It encompasses music made with synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, computers, and studio/tape techniques, as well as electroacoustic manipulation of recorded or…