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Alternative rock and Punk rock

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Difference between Alternative rock and Punk rock

Alternative rock vs. Punk rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

Similarities between Alternative rock and Punk rock

Alternative rock and Punk rock have 95 things in common (in Unionpedia): AllMusic, Alternative Songs, Bass guitar, Bauhaus (band), BBC News, Big Black, Billboard 200, British Invasion, College rock, DIY ethic, Dream pop, Drum kit, Emo, Factory Records, Fall Out Boy, Fanzine, Firehose, Folk music, Glam rock, Gothic rock, Grebo (music), Grunge, Hardcore punk, Hüsker Dü, Heavy metal music, Hip hop music, Horses (album), Independent music, Independent record label, Indie pop, ..., Indie rock, Industrial rock, Jimmy Eat World, Joy Division, Krautrock, KROQ-FM, Kurt Cobain, Less Than Jake, Lou Reed, Math rock, Michael Azerrad, Minor Threat, MTV, Mudhoney, My Chemical Romance, Nevermind, New Order (band), New wave music, Nirvana (band), NME, No Doubt, Noise rock, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Paramore, Patti Smith, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Pop music, Pop punk, Post-hardcore, Post-punk, Public Image Ltd, Punk rock, Punk subculture, Rancid (band), Rap rock, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Riot grrrl, Rites of Spring, Rock music, Rolling Stone, Sex Pistols, Shoegazing, Simon Reynolds, Singing, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ska punk, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Sounds (magazine), Spin (magazine), Sublime (band), The Beach Boys, The Cure, The Guardian, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Replacements (band), The Smiths, The Velvet Underground, Time signature, Two-tone (music genre), Underground music, Violent Femmes, Zine. Expand index (65 more) »

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative Songs

Alternative Songs (also called Alternative and formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bauhaus (band)

Bauhaus were an English post-punk band, formed in Northampton, England in 1978.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Big Black

Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.

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College rock

College rock was the alternative rock music played on student-run university and college campus radio stations located in the United States and Canada in the 1980s.

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DIY ethic

DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert.

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Dream pop

Dream pop (or dreampop) is a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that developed in the 1980s.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Emo

Emo is a rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics.

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Factory Records

Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside, and (briefly) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and James.

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Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Firehose

Firehose (stylized as fIREHOSE) was an American alternative rock band consisting of Mike Watt (bass, vocals), Ed Crawford (guitar, vocals), and George Hurley (drums).

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Gothic rock

Gothic rock (alternately called goth-rock or goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the late 1970s.

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Grebo (music)

Grebo (or grebo rock) was a short-lived subgenre of alternative rock that incorporated influences from punk rock, electronic dance music, hip hop and psychedelia.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü were an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Horses (album)

Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith, released on December 13, 1975, on Arista Records.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indie pop

Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and rock music.

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Jimmy Eat World

Jimmy Eat World is an American rock band formed in Mesa, Arizona in 1993.

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Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.

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KROQ-FM

KROQ-FM (106.7 FM, 106.7 KROQ) is a radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles Area.

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Less Than Jake

Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida, formed in 1992.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Math rock

Math rock is a style of indie rock that emerged in the late 1980s in the United States, influenced by post-hardcore, progressive rock bands such as King Crimson, and 20th century minimal music composers such as Steve Reich.

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Michael Azerrad

Michael Azerrad is an American author, music journalist, editor, and musician.

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Minor Threat

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1980 in Washington, D.C. by vocalist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Mudhoney

Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band.

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My Chemical Romance

My Chemical Romance (often abbreviated as MCR) was an American rock band from Newark, New Jersey, active from 2001 to 2013.

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Nevermind

Nevermind is the second studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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No Doubt

No Doubt is an American ska band from Anaheim, California, that formed in 1986.

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Noise rock

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.

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Our Band Could Be Your Life

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad.

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Paramore

Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004.

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Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

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Pixies

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pop punk

Pop punk (also known as punk-pop) is a music genre that fuses elements of pop music with punk rock.

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Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression initially inspired by post-punk and noise rock.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Punk subculture

Punk subculture includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film.

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Rancid (band)

Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991.

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Rap rock

Rap rock is a fusion genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.

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Reel Big Fish

Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Orange County, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out".

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Riot grrrl

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began in the early 1990s in Washington state (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Rites of Spring

Rites of Spring was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C., in the mid-1980s, known for their energetic live performances.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Shoegazing

Shoegaze (or shoegazing, originally interchangeable with "dream pop"Nathaniel Wice / Steven Daly: "The dream pop bands were lionized by the capricious British music press, which later took to dismissing them as "shoegazers" for their affectless stage presence.", Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90s-Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter, p. 73, HarperCollins Publishers 1995) is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.

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Ska punk

Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music together.

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Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney is an American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1994.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Sublime (band)

Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1976.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (informally referred to as The Bosstones) are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983.

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The Replacements (band)

The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).

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Time signature

The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are to be contained in each measure (bar) and which note value is equivalent to one beat.

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Two-tone (music genre)

Two-tone (or 2 tone) is a genre of British music that fuses traditional ska with musical elements of punk rock.

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Underground music

Underground music comprises musical genres beyond mainstream culture.

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Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes is an American folk punk band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active from 1980 to 2009.

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Zine

A zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via photocopier.

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Alternative rock and Punk rock Comparison

Alternative rock has 310 relations, while Punk rock has 849. As they have in common 95, the Jaccard index is 8.20% = 95 / (310 + 849).

References

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