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Image credit: Jenny Risher The legendary Detroit rocker returns with his 21st solo studio album on Friday. Cooper calls the album an homage to the proto-punk rock movement that helped launched his career more than 50 years ago. When Alice Cooper talks about his new album “Detroit Stories,” out Friday, February 26, he swears that it’s not about nostalgia.  It’s not about looking back on his career and celebrating what was. It’s actually about celebrating the city where he was b...

Welcome to Seven in Seven, where each Thursday in this space we would typically take a look at concerts coming to the region over the next week. With most shows on hold due to the pandemic, here’s a look at seven of the best albums being released Feb. 26: Alice Cooper — "Detroit Stories" Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, "Detroit Stories" follows last year’s "Breadcrumbs" EP as a modern-day homage to the toughest and...

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,�...

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 […]

Procter & Gamble Co. has reached a settlement with 1960s rock guitarist Wayne Kramer to end his suit over a discontinued line of Old Spice body wash that allegedly used his signature guitar to sell the "scent of a virtuoso's intensity."

By Syndicated Content Feb 11, 2021 12:01 AM Earlier this week, Alice Cooper received his vaccine for the COVID-19 virus at the Abrazo West Campus hospital in Goodyear, Arizona, a suburb of his hometown of Phoenix, and now the shock rocker is encouraging others to also get a shot to protect them. Cooper and his wife, Sheryl , who both already recovered from a bout of COVID, still decided to get the vaccine when they had the opportunity. The shots were administered by Team R...

The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail. Peter wrote for Creem, a gig hed scored not only with his writing chops but also through his friendship with the reigning bard of rock and roll journalism, Lester Bangs. To the air between us he offered up a pretty guitar with reverence, as if it were a holy artifact. A guitar with a rosewood neck, like Tom Verlaines, he said proudly. Verlaine was the lead singer and guitarist in the band Television. I hadnt yet heard their music, which set Peter ...

Resisting all scurrilous comments about seeing pink elephants or six foot rabbits, lets stick to the welcome news that Harvey is the latest single from Paddy Goodwin & The Holy Ghosts, and can be downloaded and enjoyed as we speak. Named after the classic Jimmy Stewart film of the same name, Paddy explains how the track came to be. I am a big fan of Jimmy Stewart and my favourite movie is either Its A Wonderful Life or Harvey depending on what way the wind is blowing, says Paddy, whose day job ...

Credit: Jenny RisherAlice Cooper turned 73 today, and in celebration of his birthday, the shock rocker is releasing a new single from his forthcoming studio

Ted Nugent Refused Drugs From Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Bon Scott Ted Nugent reinforced his antidrug views by saying he refused to accept substances from Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon and Bon Scott over the years. The guitarist – whose disapproval of intoxication issues is well-known – reflected that he’d managed to avoid going down the same road through “luck” and added that he’s watched many of his musical heroes succumb to the negative effects of dabbling. “My mom and dad were smoki...