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No Use for a Name's posthumous covers collection is fun but slight. And because the focus is on non-album tracks, it's missing the band's best covers.
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Hello there, ladies and gentlemen. Hello there, ladies and gents. Are you ready to rock? Because Cheap Trick’s classic 1979 live album is this week’s Counterbalance. Surrender. But don’t give yourself away.
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In Defense of Going to South By Southwest
Four days, six stories, one column, dozens of tweets and nearly 10,000 words later, I'm still wondering how we define success at SXSW.
18 Mar 2013
Mike Doughty: The Flip Is Another Honey
Mike Doughty's covers album seems like an odd collection of logical and left-field choices. But in his hands, they almost all turn out to be good decisions.
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Miles Nielsen: Presents the Rusted Hearts
Cheap Trick scion gets his twang on.
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20 Music Videos from the 1980s That Have Aged Terribly
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Spanning 1977-1988, this totally superfluous collection nonetheless reminds you of how Cheap Trick was great, and then not-so-great.
19 Oct 2010
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Most Infamous Snubs
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29 Jul 2009
Cheap Trick: Budokan!: 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Celebrating their career-making romp at Japan's Budokan 30 years ago, Cheap Trick offer a four-disc set that fans will no doubt "Surrender" to.
04 Dec 2008
Cheap Trick: Budokan!: 30th Anniversary Edition
One of rock's all-time classic concert LPs is expanded, remastered, redoubled, posterized, essayfied, and videotastically ultra-enhanced. In a word: Budokan!
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Cheap Trick had their best moments early in their 30-year history...until now. Rockford takes us back to a time when the entire album was worth the listen.
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