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Hüsker Dü, Dwight Yoakam: Irving Plaza, New York NY

Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 3 May 1986

THE IDEA of pairing post-hardcore Hüsker Dü with neocountry Dwight Yoakam turned out to be more perverse in theory than in practice. There was no skinheads vs. cowboys brawl at the April 12 date; in fact, the audience seemed equally attuned to both bands.

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