Article Database
2011 - 2019
Detroit Shock City
(Vive Le Rock, 2011-00-00)
LITTLE could a preacher back in Detroit, ministering in the heart of the automotive industry, image that his son would become a snake wrangling, make-up smearing cultural icon that would bring grand theatrics into the world or rock 'n' roll....
Rock Hall to Induct Mr. Nice Guy
(USA Today, 2011-03-08)
Alice Cooper tried not to let a little thing like being overlooked for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame get to him. After all, he had built his reputation with horror-show stage antics and dead-end-kid anthems like School's Out and No More Mr. Nice Guy. He had fashioned a persona of a pop-culture Professor Moriarty, a psychotic Captain Hook for rock 'n' roll's Peter Pan syndrome....
Alice Cooper, the early days, and being hated
(Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2011-03-13)
Before shock-rock superstardom beckoned for singer Alice Cooper and his group, which included two Northeast Ohio natives, they were just another garage band. Literally. They used to rehearse at the Phoenix home of guitarist Glen Buxton...
Hiss-Story Repeating Itself
(Times, The, 2011-06-28)
Removed from the big stages and relieved of nearly all his theatrical props, Alice Cooper still had plenty of cards up his sleeve when he played a one-off gig in London's most celebrated basement dive....
Hologram Slam!
(Mojo, 2011-07-00)
There was an unnerving return from the dead on April 21 at a Los Angeles sound stage. But this was no horror flick in production; instead it was Alice Cooper playing live with original bandmates Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce - Steve Hunter filled in for the late Glen Buxton. ...
Nice by Alice Cooper
(UNT, 2011-07-09)
When you have been on the road since the late 60's and you can call yourself the father of shock rock without over exaggerating one bit, you deserve respect. That also means that the artist in question has had the chance to accumulate quite a lot of experience, which can be both good and bad....
Alice Cooper takes "Grönan" - a Swedish summer classic!
(Smålandsbygdens Tidning, 2011-07-15)
The conditions could not have been better, when the ancestor of theatrical rock took on the large Stockholm audience. With a mainly new band, expanded with an extra guitarist, Alice Cooper entered the main stage of Gröna Lund with Vincent Price's voice ringing in our ears....
School's Back
(Record Collector, 2011-08-00)
The Alice Cooper Old School collection (Universal) features a 12" box crafted to resemble a well-worn American high school dead from the Vietnam War era. ...
Still Creepin' While You're Sleepin'
(Rue Morgue, 2011-09-00)
The last time we saw Alice Cooper, he was hacking the limbs off dead bodies and using them to build a giant arachnid. Or at least that's what his latest fictional character was doing on the 2008 serial killer concept album Along Came A Spider....
Today's bands are more soft clay than hard rock
(Telegraph, 2011-09-00)
ALICE Cooper has a message for today's rock bands - man up. The rocker who has titled his Australian visit the No More Mr Nice Guy tour said yesterday pop divas such as Lady Gaga, Kesha and Katy Perry had stolen the rock star crown....
Department of Youth
(Telegraph, 2011-09-00)
You won't see Alice Cooper at the supermarket. Instead, the man his mother knew as Vincent Furnier goes out to buy the milk or play a round of golf. "I can't possibly be that character off-stage. If I am going to the mall or the movies or the golf course...
Welcome 2 My Nightmare Review
(Rolling Stone, 2011-09-29)
On 1975's Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper largely traded in high school parking-lot hard rock for fright-show theater; it had bruising moments, but also self-parodying schmaltz. Welcome 2 My Nightmare is its sequel, so we get recurring bad-dream rockers...
Inside Out
(Classic Rock, 2011-10-00)
In October 1977, one of the world's most famous rock stars found himself in a place where his status and wealth counted for nothing. Alice Cooper was a patient at the Cornell Medical Center, a sanitarium located near the city of White Plains...
The Man Behind The Mask
(Fangoria, 2011-10-00)
He transcends introduction. He reinvented rock 'n' roll. He took silver-screen horror and injected it into vinyl, making his records a darker shade of black. His blend of Grand Guignol theatrical performance and snarling hard rock laid the path for all who would follow in face paint and stage blood. The list of people he has influenced is too long to mention, and his indelible mark on music is unquestionable....
'Most bands today are so PC, so boring...'
(Independent, 2011-10-29)
Alice Cooper is living the rock'n'roll dream: perched on the sofa of a luxury hotel suite, shortly after the sun has risen over the nearby Hollywood Hills, with a half-empty bottle in his hand, and an enormous flat-screen TV blaring....
Call & Response: Alice Cooper
(Decibel, 2011-11-00)
To celebrate the release of his 19th solo album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, we sent the legendary Alice Cooper six Halloween-themed songs, identified only by title. Here's what the golf monster had to say about our selections:...
A New Nightmare Begins!
(Metalized, 2011-11-00)
Alice Cooper. Few can claim not to have an opinion of him, and no one can deny his huge influence on the rock and metal scene. The imprint of his innovative and shockingly theatrical shock rock of the 70s is evident everywhere you look or listen...
Bad Santa
(New Musical Express, 2011-12-17)
NME's introduction to Alice Cooper is not how we imagined it would be. What he should be doing, see, is hanging from the rafters of his Parisian hotel room, dressed like death, biting off chicken heads and/or shagging snakes....
Alice Cooper: From Hell and Back
(HorrorHound, 2012-07-00)
The term legend gets tossed around a lot these days. But I challenge you to find a more truthful use of the word than when it is used to describe Alice Cooper. Having influenced more artists in this special issue of HorrorHound than probably any other performer, Alice Cooper (the man and the band) are still going strong after a career that began in the 1960s - and are touring to this day....
Alice Cooper, Blues Fest
(Ottawa Sun, 2012-07-03)
Before shock rock had a name, it had an icon in Detroit Rock City's Alice Cooper. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, the former Vincent Damon Furnier wore makeup before KISS, sacrificed livestock onstage before Ozzy, and perfected his punk sneer while Iggy Pop was still practising in front of a mirror. ...
Venerable Rockers Know How to Please
(Ottawa Citizen, 2012-07-08)
Alice Cooper, the original shock rocker who justifiably claims to have found profit and fame in garish : makeup long before Bowie or Kiss, is the early act for this leg of the Iron Maiden tour....
Nice Putt, Alice
(Ottawa Sun, 2012-07-08)
Alice Cooper has played golf with the likes of Sergio Garcia, Arnold Palmer ("he's like your funny uncle"), Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Justin Leonard and Dustin Johnson....
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
(Rue Morgue, 2012-11-00)
The legendary rocker found himself in the 1987 film after meeting director John Carpenter through his manager, Shep Gordon, who would go on to executive produce They Live (1988) and Village of the Damned (1995) for the filmmaker, as well as Shocker (1989) and The People Under The Stairs (1991) for Wes Craven....
Billion Dollar Babies Tour 1973-1974
(Guitar World, 2013-00-00)
In the late Sixties, Alice Cooper was accused of murdering a chicken during a concert. But while the shock-rock trailblazer has always staunchly denied the allegation (claiming he innocently tossed the bird into the audience, where the slaughter was then enacted by rabid fans)...
They Sold Their Souls for Rock n' Roll
(Diabolique, 2013-03-00)
YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE always gravitated towards rock and roll music; it's energetic; it challenges parental authority; and its content is both provocative and easily accessible, which means that it has the power to stimulate the young listener without demanding very much from him intellectually. Horror films and literature have also, historically, appealed to younger audiences for various reasons....
Alice Cooper's Nightmare Lives On
(Vancouver Sun, 2013-11-14)
If Alice Cooper was one of the first true shock rockers, he is now one of the last remaining few. Speaking to a crowd of recording arts students at the Vancity Theatre last year, Cooper and longtime friend and producer Bob...
Alice Cooper Fans - Dynamite has Pretties For You!
(Comic Shop News, 2014-00-00)
Alice Cooper's musical career dates back forty-five years — but many don't realize that his career in comics dates back more than a third of a century! Not too long after the release of his fourth solo album, From the Inside, Alice Cooper made his...
Alice sets the record straight
(Detroit Free Press, 2014-05-01)
Vincent Furnier is the Detroit native who grew up the son of a preacher and got hooked on golf. Alice Cooper is the L.A.-groomed horror-rock pioneer who scared parents in the '70s and got himself addicted to beer and cocaine....
'I might slit your throat, but at least I'd do it with style'
(Notebook, 2014-10-19)
Alice Cooper maybe be 66 years old now, but there is zilch chance of this rock legend hanging up his well-worn leather trousers and wiping off that black mascara. ...
My Hols: Alice Cooper
(Times, The, 2015-06-21)
"I was born in Detroit and I always consider myself a city boy, but I had asthma so bad as a kid that my parents decided to move to Phoenix. My dad was a pastor and we made a lot of new friends through the church. One of our first holidays was a camping...
High Times with Alice Cooper
(Rolling Stone, 2015-07-16)
Dennis Dunaway — bassist for the Alice Cooper band from 1968 until Cooper became a solo act in 1975 — has collected his wildest tales for a new memoir, Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group...
'We're just guys playing our favourite songs'
(Times, The, 2015-09-26)
The Roxy on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles is one of those legendary rock venues every big city has: steeped in myth, surprisingly small and grimy. Next door is the insalubrious Rainbow Bar & Grill, which in the early 1970s was home...
Don't Lose Your Head
(Kerrang!, 2015-10-31)
The legends goes that the blade of a guillotine is so sharp that it can slice through your neck at such a pace that your dismembered hear will still be able to see in the moments after it comes flying off your neck....
The Vampire Diaries
(Classic Rock, 2015-11-00)
Alice Cooper picks up a glass of beer, walks to the mic, then pauses momentarily while the packed audience takes his cue and attempt a respectful hush. "Alcohol and drugs killed a whole lot of Hollywood Vampires," he warns, before making a toast....
Alice Cooper Launches Late Run For The Presidency As Chaos Reigns
(Aquarian, 2016-09-21)
"A Troubled Man for Troubled Times!" reads the banner unfurled on main streets and town squares everywhere across the fruited plains. A rendering of a recognizable face adorned in disturbing deep-black eye makeup grins like the Cheshire Cat beneath...
Yule's Out
(Musician's Friend, 2016-12-00)
As the Godfather of Shock Rock, Alice Cooper has been the exemplar of live concert theatrics for over five decades. His Vaudeville-inspired musical horror show has featured everything form electric chairs and fake blood to boa constrictors and decapitation...
Groucho Marx
(Planet Rock, 2017-07-00)
I first met him at a charity event Frank Sinatra had organised and we sang Lydia The Tattooed Lady, which was an old Groucho song from [1939 Marx Brothers film] At The Circus. My manager, Shep Gordon, looked after him in the later stage of his life, and for a period of time we were pretty good friends — we were kinda inseparable....
Alice Cooper Returns to Houston
(Music News, 2017-08-00)
The indisputable "Master of Shock Rock," Alice Cooper will be returning to Houston this month in concert on Friday, August 18th at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion....
2017 Best of the Valley
(Phoenix, 2017-08-00)
"Retired rocker"? Not by a damn sight. The pride of Cortez High released his 27th career long-play, Paranormal, this year....
Alice Cooper
(Powerplay, 2017-08-00)
As an artist who has been present in the rock and metal scene for so many years, Alice has of course seen and heard it all and remains one of the foremost concert draws when he comes to town....
Teen Spirit
(Planet Rock, 2017-09-00)
DECEMBER 1972. At the studios of BBC Television Centre in White City; west London, the Top Of The Pops Christmas Special is underway. The show's scattershot bill this evening...
Who Do You Think You Are? A Rock Star?
(Times, The, 2018-06-16)
In the centre of Copenhagen on a balmy Saturday night, 20,000 people have crammed into the Tivoli Gardens for a concert by the Hollywood Vampires. The young crowd in this toffee-apple-bright, 19th-century amusement park...
The Real Alice
(Goldmine, 2019-06-00)
Alice Cooper can be considered the most schizophrenic moniker in the history of rock music. When you say, “Alice Cooper” you could be referring to the person, or you could be referring to the band. In fact, Alice Cooper is so closely associated with the character that vocalist Vincent Furnier plays, it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, especially in the minds of the casual fan. ...
Hollywood Vampires
(Powerplay, 2019-07-00)
If you ever wondered where Hollywood Vampires got their name from... The Rainbow Bar And Grill in Los Angeles has seen its share of debauchery over the years....
Q&A with Alice Cooper
(Decibel, 2019-09-00)
Alice Cooper is at home in Phoenix, where it's a hellish 105 degrees. Which might make some of us cranky and sluggish, especially if we were — like Cooper — 71 years old. And yet, the godfather of shock rock-the man to whom KISS, Rob Zombie...