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Artist

Todd Rundgren

Alternative rock

Alternative rockHouseProgressive rock

Todd Rundgren is a Alternative rock and House act. Their catalogue also touches Progressive rock. Their sound grew out of Question Mark, Angelo Moore, Road Crew, The Hooters and Lyle Workman. Those roots explain a lot about how Todd Rundgren arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Badfinger, Genesis, The Raspberries, Donald Fagen and Traffic, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Toro y Moi, The Vaccines, Afraid of Sunlight, Lonerism and Eels, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 78 connections around Todd Rundgren, reaching back through Question Mark and forward to Toro y Moi. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.