Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick and Pat Benatar + Neil Giraldo will be teaming up for a run of US concert dates this summer, in what should prove to be a can't miss evening.

Anthrax has released a fourth song from their upcoming album of classic rock covers called 'Anthems.' The group revealed a version of 'Big Eyes' by Cheap Trick for fans to enjoy. The entire album will be available on March 19 in the United States and on March 22 in Europe.

More sounds from the upcoming 'Sound City Reel to Reel' album have been released. Rocker and film director Dave Grohl has teamed with Slipknot's Corey Taylor, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick and bassist Scott Reeder to create 'From Can to Can't,' a soaring rock ballad that will transcend one back to 2002 when everything on the radio was thick with heartache power chords and thin on melody.

With a cachet like Cheap Trick has, it's not frequent that they open for other bands, but the group just signed on for another leg of dates supporting Aerosmith and that suggests that camaraderie has eclipsed billing in terms of importance for the veteran rockers.

While Cheap Trick's original drummer hasn't been seen on the road with the band in a couple of years, he insists he's still very much a part of the band. So Bun E. Carlos was shocked when he wasn't included when his band was invited to record a song for the next 'A Very Special Christmas.'

When you’re a headliner, you’re awarded certain privileges. When you’re playing your hometown, you probably even get more favorable treatment. And if you’re a band as big as Aerosmith and your opening act is the equally impressive Cheap Trick, you’ve got to take advantage of the situation to guest on a classic song.

If you don’t tour with a group and never talk to your bandmates anymore, are you still actually in the band? According to Cheap Trick drummer Bun E Carlos … yes.

Members of the Allman Brothers Band, Cheap Trick and other classic rock bands signed to Sony BMG will have reason to smile when they receive their next royalty statements. On Wednesday, a five-year lawsuit against the label was settled to the tune of $7.95 million and a three percent raise in their royalty rates on sales of digital music, Rolling Stone is reporting.

Cheap Trick fans: get ready to ring in 2012 with total rock action!  Tonight — that’s Dec 31, 2011 (aka New Year’s Eve) —  GFL-TV and Jannus Live are offering up a live webcast of the band’s concert in Tampa Bay, Fla. Transmission begins at 10PM ET.

After recent stage collapses, including a stage in Canada utilized by Cheap Trick, the band is lobbying for government regulations to make outdoor stages safer. Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen and manager David Frey appeared before Congress this past Monday, October 3rd and asked for regulations on outdoor stages.

John Lennon's 'Double Fantasy' album was a true comeback, after five years off to raise his son Sean.  The album showed that John had not only retained his genius for songwriting, but also his vocal chops.  'Double Fantasy' had tender ballads like 'Beautiful Boy', and it had outright rock songs.  The best of those rockers in my opinion is 'I'm Losing You'.  It had the sneer, the power chords, the

Cheap Trick miraculously escaped injury on Sunday (July 17th) when their stage collapsed at a show in Ottawa, Ontario. The band members managed to run from the stage as a gust of extremely high wind toppled the stage backward.