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Alice Cooper Has Some Detroit Stories to Tell Alice Cooper Has Some Detroit Stories to Tell The original shock-rocker talks about his new hometown-saluting album, why he enjoyed reuniting with his original band members, possible Broadway plans and why he owes Variety a debt. A.D. Amorosi, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The only thing that Alice Cooper has forever done better than scare and shock is create titillating heavy rock filled with odd, often dangerous characters and their noir-ish t...

Alice Cooper s latest studio album, Detroit Stories , gets its release this Friday, February 26, and in celebration of the new records impending arrival, the shock rocker will appear live tonight on a streaming event hosted by the social-networking site talkshoplive . Coopers appearance, which begins at 9 p.m. ET, also marks the launch of the talkshoplive platforms new Rock n Roll Channel, which will feature well-known artists encouraging direct-to-consumer sales of their relea...

Arizona Republic Alice Cooper spends his latest album, "Detroit Stories," paying tribute to a city that looms large in Cooper legend for obvious reasons.  First and foremost, he was born there. And although he met the other founding members of the Alice Cooper group in Phoenix, where his family moved when he was 12, the Cortez High School track star and his bandmates were sharing a farmhouse on the outskirts of Detroit when they recorded "Im Eighteen," their breakthrough single. Theyd mov...

By Syndicated Content Alice Cooper s latest studio album, Detroit Stories , gets its release this Friday, February 26, and in celebration of the new records impending arrival, the shock rocker will appear live tonight on a streaming event hosted by the social-networking site talkshoplive . Coopers appearance, which begins at 9 p.m. ET, also marks the launch of the talkshoplive platforms new Rock n Roll Channel, which will feature well-known artists encouraging direct-to-...

Social Retail Platform talkshoplive® Launches Turnkey Music Fulfillment Partnership With Leading Home Entertainment Distributor Ingram Entertainment Kicking Off With New Rock n Roll Channel Tonight Alice Cooper Will Launch The Channel Tonight at 9pm EST Partnership will encourage direct-to-consumer sales growth for musicians News provided by Share this article , the leading live streaming, social selling online network and leading home entertainment distributor Ingram Entertainment announced...

While the Alice Cooper band got its start in California, they never fit in with the flower-power hippies who dominated the ’60s scene. Audience members were walking out of shows at gigs in and around Los Angeles so they didn’t have to endure their wild theatrics. Detroit, on the other hand, was a city in love with tough, bombastic music, and the band found a thrilled fanbase. “In Detroit, if you went up there and said, ‘This is a song about love and roses,’ they would just kill you,�...

Rolling Stone Menu Flashback: Ann Wilson Sings ‘Let It Be’ With John Entwistle, Todd Rundgren, and Alan Parsons In the summer of 2001, a one-time-only supergroup hit the road to honor the music of the Beatles By Last week, we shared Rick Livingstone’s memories of his time singing lead in the 1990 supergroup the Best alongside John Entwistle, Joe Walsh, Keith Emerson, and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. Their set mixed songs by the Who, the Eagles, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and ...

By Syndicated Content Former Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner will release a new live DVD called From Chile with Love on April 6. It documents a show Farner did with his solo band in the South American countrys capital of Santiago. The concert featured Farner and his group playing a set that included classic Grand Funk Railroad tunes like "Bad Time," "Im Your Captain (Closer to Home)," "Footstompin Music," "Rock & Roll Soul," and the bands hit covers of Little Eva ...

Former Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner will release a new live DVD called From Chile with Love on April 6. It documents a show Farner did wit...

In the late ’60s, Los Angeles produced some weird and wild rock bands, from the Doors to the Mothers of Invention. But even L.A. didn’t know what to do with the Alice Cooper band. “L.A. just didn’t get us at all,” Cooper told the Herald. “Frank Zappa didn’t even get us. He went, ‘I don’t […]