Big Apple Music Scene — There are two opportunities for you to attend a live concert taping for a TV show. One you have to pay for, and one is a casting call. Here are the details: 1) If you purchase the W Hotel’s exclusive Rock Star Package, you will have access to the t... more info

The Independent — Pop-rock group Cheap Trick will be a headliner at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas, announced SXSW.com on January 6. Scheduled for March 12-21, SXSW brings droves of music lovers to Austin to hear the nearly 2,000 s... more info

411 Mania — First headliners for the annual fest announced... more info

Undercover, Australia — Cheap Trick will perform at SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas in March. more info

Rollo & Grady — Emily Haines of Metric Having announced over 400 bands, SXSW organizers added some big names to the festival today. New additions include: Broken Social Scene, Metric, She & Him, Cheap Trick and Dan the Automator. MP3: Metric – Don’t Think Twice... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Cheap Trick are playing Irving Plaza on January 25 and tickets are on presale now (password = record) until Friday at 10 pm. They go on regular sale on Saturday at 10 am. Magnetic Fields have a new album called Realism, coming out on January 26. They... more info

Guardian Music — These giants of rock have had fun in the studio. But Alexis Petridis struggles to see the point of a CDIt's hard to call Them Crooked Vultures anything other than a supergroup – the line-up features Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul J... more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — KissDuring the age of the live album (Cheap Trick's At Budokan; Frampton Comes Alive, Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo!, AC/DC's If You Want Blood You've Got It, etc.), Kiss rocked out with Alive! in a way that even the band's heaviest contemporaries c... more info

Live Daily — Def Leppard has called off its next round of tour dates with Cheap Trick. "Due to unforeseen personal matters, the third leg of Def Leppard's North American Tour, set to begin on October 22nd, has been canceled," said a statement issued today (10/... more info

Live Daily — As promised, British rockers Def Leppard [ tickets ] have further filled out their fall schedule of North American tour dates with co-headliners Cheap Trick [ tickets ]. The fall leg, which gets underway Oct. 22 in Reno, NV, has an additional six ... more info