Smackdown: Rock Operas

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Green Day’s chart-topping new album has all the trappings of a rock opera: big ideas, star-crossed characters and an epic song cycle. But the art form pioneered by The Who and The Kinks is notoriously uneven. In another Soundcheck Smackdown, we debate rock operas. Later: Cardigans frontwoman Nina Persson joins us to play live with her band A Camp.

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