Cheap Trick and "underrated" kind of go in hand. The quartet from Rockford, Ill., is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — but it took nearly 15 years of eligibility to achieve what should have been a ...

Life happens to you when you’re busy making other plans,’ John Lennon once sang. And never in a million years could Cheap Trick have imagined how their career would be transformed as the result of a ...

Pick any playlist or compilation of Cheap Trick songs, and you’re bound to be blown away by what you hear. This band has always displayed a knack for ear candy with musical heft and lyrical cleverness ...

Cheap Trick is an American rock ‘n’ roll institution. Formed in Rockford, Illinois in 1973, they were grouped with the era’s reigning arena-rock kingpins by the time they went multi-platinum with the ...

Classic power pop band Cheap Trick made a return to the music world on Friday, Nov. 14, releasing their new album, “All Washed Up,” after nearly five years without new music.

Submitted photo .... Rick Nielsen, left, of Cheap Trick is joined by his sons Daxx (on drums) and Miles, center, in The Nielsen Trust, which performs June 18 at the Warren Community Amphitheatre as ...

Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen didn’t take long to show his snappy sense of humor during a recent interview. Asked how the creativity level in the band now compares to where it was when the group ...