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Danny Clinch Cheap Trick will celebrate the 35th anniversary of their legendary Budokan, Japan performances with a pair of special concerts. The first show will go down on April 28th at the John Varvatos Bowery boutique in New York City, which is especially cool since that was also the former location of CBGB's.

Eddie Trunk has taken to his website to announce the slate of guests for the upcoming 11th season of his popular Vh1 Classic series "That Metal Show." The season kicks off with two episodes filmed back in March, and joining Trunk for the Aug...

The list of metal bands who'll tell you they're big in Japan is extensive, but no band could ever claim to be bigger in Japan than Dir En Grey. Just walking through the city's frenzied Shibuya business district, among the meticulously-manicured and flamboyantly-dressed Harajuku girls, it seems as though every other person is wearing one of the band's shirts...

Guitar, bass and drums are the conventional instrumentation for nearly all heavy metal. Some bands have also used organs or synthesizers, and throughout the history of the genre, a select few have utilized the Mellotron, a magnetic-tape keyboard originally invented as the Chamberlin organ in a California garage in the late 1940s...

Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird! Wait, or is it a plane? No, it's ... Def Leppard?!? That's right, kids. The British hard rock legends will be coming to TV screens near you in the not-so-distant future -- but they'll be animated. According to reports, Def Lep are developing a cartoon TV show as part of their wide-ranging deal with music publishing company Primary Wave...

Default frontman Dallas Smith joins Alice Cooper, Tico Torres (Bon Jovi), Kid Rock, Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe), Dave Farrell (Linkin Park), Jani Lane (Warrant), M. Shadows (Avenged Sevenfold), Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), and other rockers in hitting the golf course in his spare time. "I usual...

Who says summer concert season is over? Def Leppard and Cheap Trick have decided to extend their tour a little longer, adding 15 more dates across the United States and Canada. Tickets for select markets go on sale tomorrow via Live Nation...

We doubt any of you watched the MTV Video Music Awards last night (unless you're girlfriend made you watch, in which case, dump that broad), because we sure as hell didn't. Given there isn't even a metal or hard rock video category, why would we...

Def Leppard's Joe Elliott stopped by the Noisecreep offices recently to chat with us about the band's summer tour with Poison and Cheap Trick, their appearance at the CMT Awards with Taylor Swift and the band's recent appearance at the Donington's Download Festival...

Joe Elliott. He's a behemoth of a frontman. Tall, blonde – almost like a Norse deity. And this summer, he'll be bringing his massive presence to amphitheaters from around the country with the rest of Def Leppard, as well as openers Cheap Trick and Poison. Duri...