Pages tagged “cheap trick”

Download Cheap Trick's "Green Police"

By Paste Staff on 6:00 PM on February 5, 2010

Download Cheap Trick's "Green Police" here.The song will be featured in an Audi Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, Feb. 7.... read more

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Cheap Trick's Latest Available on 8-Track

By Ani Vrabel on 3:00 PM on July 21, 2009

Cheap Trick has a new album titled (aptly, though not especially creatively) The Latest. It has been available as a digital download since last month, and it was made available on CD and vinyl this month. But the group, ever seeking approval, decided to give its fans one more option. The band has also made a limited-edition 8-track version of The Latest available for purchase.... read more

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Hanson + Cheap Trick + Smashing Pumpkins + Fountains of Wayne = Tinted Windows

By Muriel Vega on 4:26 PM on February 23, 2009

In one of the strangest bits of supergroup news in, well, a good while, former Smashing Pumpkins member James Iha, a grown-up Taylor Hanson, Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos and Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger are set to release their debut album on April 21 as new band called Tinted Windows. ... read more

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A Power Pop Primer: 10 Gateway Songs to a Lifelong Addiction

By Austin L. Ray on 7:00 AM on December 6, 2008

You could argue all day about what is and what is not "power pop," a discussion that might ill-advisedly convince you to attempt an exhaustive list of the genre's finest songs. I have neither the time nor the energy to make such a list, but I do enjoy me some of what Wikipedia calls "a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum,... read more

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