Hard Rock Casino Rockford officials are working to ink contracts with nearly a dozen acts for the second half of 2024 at its planned Hard Rock Live performance and events venue. But there is one act ...

MOORHEAD - Everything you need to know about Rick Nielsen can be learned by watching him for a few minutes. The Cheap Trick songwriter is as much a guitarist as he is a showman. He swaps out a series ...

Rockford's finest Cheap Trick have never made any secret of their adoration for The Beatles. Right from their debut album, which fused Beatlesesque melodies with spiky rock and power pop, guitarist ...

Rock 'n Roll fans were out in force as the hard-rocking group Cheap Trick took the stage at Brown County Music Center on December 8, 2024. The original band members of Robin Zander (vocals, rhythm ...

Cheap Trick is responsible for many of your favorite karaoke staples: "The Flame." "Ghost Town." "Dream Police." "I Want You to Want Me." But Rick Nielsen – the band's co-founder, guitarist and chief ...

Cheap Trick formed in the mid-'70s in Illinois with a bag of power-pop tricks cribbed from bands like the Beatles and Badfinger. But guitarist Rick Nielsen was also a fan and student of the era's ...

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen are among the hard-rocking musicians who will be honored at the 2024 edition of the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards. The event will take place ...

Mojo Music & Media announced Tuesday that is has picked up a 50% interest in the publishing catalog of Rick Nielsen, the co-founding guitarist and principal songwriter of Cheap Trick. “I’d almost ...

I used to consider the label "classic-rock" a pejorative, a backhanded way of saying a band has nothing more to say — or, at least, nothing more worth hearing. Often when a band is several decades ...

There’s always been a wonderfully defiant quality to Cheap Trick beneath the lovable, albeit kooky-weird, wired personas. It was on full display at Cheap Trick’s first ever appearance at the San ...

Award-winning, non-GMO sugarcane vodka evolves into the Bella Rio Brand House—inviting new investors to join its community-powered journey of growth and innovation. The greater our community, the ...