Anthrax’s Scott Ian On Rock Hall KISS Snub: ‘Pretty Lame’
They’re one of metal’s most enduring bands, but Anthrax has always drawn from diverse influences. Over the years, they’ve had hits with covers of songs by Public Enemy (“Bring The Noise”), Joe Jackson...
View ArticleCheap Trick Sues Canadian Festival For $1 Million After 2011 Stage Collapse
Though they’re called Cheap Trick, the band is filing an expensive lawsuit against the Ottawa Bluesfest after a stage collapse during their July 2011 performance. The million-dollar suit comes two...
View ArticleCheap Trick Drummer Bun E. Carlos Sues Bandmates For Thousands Of Dollars
Drummer Bun E. Carlos is suing his fellow Cheap Trick bandmates for money he says he is rightfully owed. According to Chicago’s Courthouse News Service, Carlos (real name Brad Carlson) along with the...
View ArticleCheap Trick Countersue Bun E. Carlos, Claim They Owe Him Nothing
(Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for John Varvatos) Cheap Trick have filed a countersuit against their drummer Bun E. Carlos. This comes more than a month after Carlos filed a suit against the band...
View ArticleLynyrd Skynyrd Concert Special to Include Trace Adkins, Alabama, Gregg...
By Philip Cosores Lynyrd Skynyrd have been around not only long enough to tragically lose members in a plane crash, but also accumulate a host of famous friends that they’ve worked with or consorted...
View ArticleFoo Fighters Confirm Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and The Eagles’ Joe...
By Scott T. Sterling In the initial announcement of the new Foo Fighters album, Sonic Highways, due on November 10 via Rockwell Recordings, word was that the record would be guest-heavy, as the...
View ArticleRadio.com Minimation: Cheap Trick on Getting Cut from John Lennon’s ‘Double...
By Brian Ives On Minimation, we comb through the archives of legendary New York radio station WNEW-FM and animate interviews with legendary rock artists. This installment is taken from a 1985...
View ArticleKathleen Hanna, Adam Horovitz, Cheap Trick Added to Joan Jett Tribute Concert
By Brian Ives This year’s Little Kids Rock Benefit concert has just added a few more artists to an already packed bill. The event, which will pay tribute to Joan Jett, recently announced that Cheap...
View ArticleFoo Fighters Team Up With Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen for ‘Stiff Competition’...
By Shannon Carlin With three nights on Letterman already under their belt, featuring special guests Heart, Tony Joe White and Zac Brown, it’s not going to be easy for the Foo Fighters to outdo...
View ArticleBillie Joe Armstrong, Alice Cooper Headline Joan Jett Tribute for Little Kids...
By Brian Ives “Tommy James wrote one of my biggest hits,” Joan Jett said of the man who topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1969 with “Crimson and Clover.” She was speaking last night...
View ArticlePeter Frampton, Cheap Trick Announce Co-Headlining Tour
By Philip Cosores If you thought Peter Frampton was gonna let that incident where he threw a fan’s phone keep him down, you were wrong. So, so wrong. Ultimate Classic Rock reports that Frampton is...
View ArticleCheap Trick and Brad Paisley Play ‘I Want You to Want Me’ on a Boat in Nashville
By Annie Reuter What’s better than a showboat dinner cruise with some of country music’s top talent performing? A surprise appearance by Cheap Trick. Last night (Feb. 26), Sony Music Nashville invited...
View ArticleTop 10 Musical Moments at the 2015 Country Radio Seminar
By Annie Reuter Each year, thousands of radio professionals travel to Nashville for the Country Radio Seminar (CRS). The annual three-day gathering is packed with live music, industry-related panels,...
View ArticleJanet Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, NWA, Smiths Lead Rock Hall Nominees
By Brian Ives The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their nominees for the 2016 induction ceremony, and the class ranges from hardcore hip-hop to industrial metal, disco to post-punk, classic rock...
View Article7 Things We Hope to See at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
By Brian Ives Now that we’re over the excitement of the announcement of this year’s nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, (see the full list of nominees here) we’re starting to look forward to...
View ArticleN.W.A., Deep Purple, Cheap Trick Lead Rock Hall Inductees
By Brian Ives The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their inductees today, so get ready to rumble… for the honor of your favorite act who either got in, or was snubbed. This year’s inductees...
View ArticleCheap Trick Announce New Album, New Label
By Erin Duvall Straight off the news of their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Cheap Trick has signed with Big Machine Records, home of Taylor Swift, Steven Tyler and Tim McGraw. The band is...
View ArticleFour ‘Hug-It-Outs’ We’d Like to See at the Rock Hall Induction
By Brian Ives Last week, Chicago keyboardist and founding member Robert Lamm told Radio.com that the band would perform at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year with former...
View ArticleHeart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Cheap Trick to Tour Together in 2016
By Radio.com Staff Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Cheap Trick will hit the road together this summer. Related: Four ‘Hug-It-Outs’ We’d Like to See at the Rock Hall Induction The Rock Hall...
View ArticleListen to Cheap Trick’s New Single ‘No Direction Home’
By Radio.com Staff Cheap Trick have shared the first single from their forthcoming studio album Bang Zoom Crazy…Hello. “No Direction Home” is our first listen to the band’s 17th studio album, their...
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