Cheap Trick (music group)

Cheap Trick to revisit 'At Budokan' at the El Rey on April 30

2013-04-04 11:45:00

How best to celebrate the 35th anniversary of a beloved live album? By re-creating it onstage, of course. That's the approach being taken by Cheap Trick, which announced Thursday that it plans to play "Cheap Trick at Budokan," the power-pop veterans'...

SXSW 2013: Dave Grohl's Sound City Players go big (before going home)

2013-03-15 10:01:00

AUSTIN, Texas -- By many accounts the South by Southwest music festival is about discovering new talent: the fresh-faced indie-pop outfit, for instance, or the precocious laptop wizard just stepping beyond the walls of his bedroom. Dave Grohl doesn't...

Movie review: 'Sound City' is homage to recording studio equipment

2013-01-31 17:47:00

High-spirited, emotional and funny, "Sound City" is, of all things, a mash note to a machine. Not just any machine, however, but one that helped change the face of rock 'n' roll. That piece of equipment, the Neve 8028 sound board, was the crown jewel of...

Live review: Sound City Players at the Hollywood Palladium

2013-02-01 12:42:00

“Rick Springfield, you have a song that people recognize after three frigging notes. Congratulations, Rick frigging Springfield,” Dave Grohl said on Thursday to his colleague in a new band celebrating the former Van Nuys recording studio Sound...

Sundance 2013: 'Sound City' rocks Park City

2013-01-19 11:44:00

PARK CITY, Utah — At the world premiere of his directorial debut, the rockumentary “Sound City,” Foo Fighters frontman and ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl made an admission that’s sure to come as a surprise the millions of head-...

Dave Grohl's 'Sound City' film gets L.A. premiere, all-star concert

2013-01-15 15:47:00

"Sound City" is coming home. After a world premiere Friday night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Dave Grohl will bring his documentary on the famed Van Nuys recording studio to L.A. on Jan. 31, the Foo Fighters frontman announced...

Foo Fighters frontman examines Van Nuys recording history in 'Sound City'

2013-01-18 16:20:00

Amid the splintered drum sticks and empty coffee cups littering his Northridge recording studio, Dave Grohl contemplated the enormous mixing desk before him. The Foo Fighters frontman looked at the seemingly endless rows of faders and dials on the...

Review: Grimes, Grouplove and more at Make Music Pasadena

2012-06-17 21:38:10

Posthumous Joey Ramone album due May 22; live performance set

2012-05-15 16:37:20

A revealing look at fame from Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump

2012-03-06 16:37:23

Time for Mitt Romney to change his tunes

2012-03-09 16:36:49

Five songs for Tax Day

2012-04-17 16:36:32

Cheap Trick is scheduled to play its 1978 album "Cheap Trick at Budokan" at the El Rey Theatre on April 30.

2013-04-04 11:15:00

. "It turned into these 80-on-80, gladiator-type dodgeball wars that were incredibly intense," Freeland said. "I thought it would be a good idea if we formed a band to play at the dodgeball games.

2013-02-25 10:32:00

Rick Nielsen, left, of Cheap Trick and Corey Taylor of Slipknot let fly at the Sound City concert.

2013-01-31 00:00:00