Live Review: Cheap Trick @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 7/19/25
There’s something permanently unruly about Cheap Trick. They don’t just play a show — they barrel through it like a getaway car with the top down, daring you to jump in and hang on. At Merriweather Post Pavilion, recently opening for Rod Stewart, they reminded us all that being tight, loud, and charmingly unhinged is still the gold standard in rock and roll.
It was a reunion with an old gang of misfits who still knew exactly how to knock over a liquor store and make it look like a magic trick — but that’s kind of what Cheap Trick does. They show up, flash that crooked grin, and suddenly you’re right back in the backseat of some beat-up ’78 Pontiac Trans Am listening to “Dream Police” being reminded of what actual rock and roll sounds like.
