Peter Buck was, at some point, the guitarist for the biggest band in the world: R.E.M.. Luke Haines was the guitarist for The Auteurs, who were not the biggest band in the world at any point. Luke Haines also does paintings of Lou Reed. One day Peter Buck bought one of Luke's Lou Reed paintings. They had never met before, but decided that the fates had brought them together and they should write some songs together and make an album. Beat Poetry For Survivalists (2020) was that album. Read more on Last.fm