alice cooper Archive
12 Jun 2023
Take 5: April 1973
In 1973, rock was at its commercial zenith; a good case can be made that it was near its creative peak as well. A look at Billboard’s tally of album […]
05 Apr 2023
Take 5: Alice Cooper
For the most part across his more than five decades as a professional musician, Detroit-born Vincent Furnier has focused on making music under his own (stage) name, originally with the […]
22 Mar 2019
How You Gonna See Me in 40 Years: a Look Back at Alice Cooper’s ‘From the Inside’
Alice Cooper (the individual born Vincent Furnier, not the band) was a notorious carouser and a founding member of the Hollywood Vampires softball team/drinking club. Cooper was part of the […]
11 Jan 2019
Alice Cooper: The Musoscribe Interview
As the title of yesterday’s feature indicates, Alice Cooper is the Grand Old Man of shock rock. Nearly a half century after the release of the debut album Pretties for […]
10 Jan 2019
Alice Cooper: The Grand Old Man of Shock Rock
At its core, rock ‘n’ roll has always been about youthful rebellion. From the national debut of Elvis Presley — who was initially shown on television waist-up so as not […]
27 Jul 2018
Book Review: Michael Bruce — No More Mister Nice Guy
Once upon a time, Alice Cooper was a group, not a singer and showman. The original Alice Cooper group started out its professional recording career on Frank Zappa and Herb […]
11 Feb 2016
Album Review: Alice Cooper – Muscle of Love (SACD)
Dedicated fans of 1970s rock know that Alice Cooper means two different things: there’s the vocalist born Vincent Furnier, and there’s the group he fronted from the late 1960s (when […]
15 Oct 2015
Album Mini-review: Hollywood Vampires
File Next to: Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, the infamous A Toot and a Snore in ’74 bootleg The original Hollywood Vampires was an informal early ’70s all-star collective of L.A. scenesters […]
17 Mar 2014
Album Review: Alice Cooper — Billion Dollar Babies
On the occasion of its 2014 reissue on Hybrid SACD, Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies is due for a critical second-look. Originally released in 1973, Billion Dollar Babies was Cooper’s […]
31 May 2012
Book Review: Dick Wagner – Not Only Women Bleed
I’m decidedly old-school about any number of things. I prefer vinyl records to CDs (and CDs to mp3 files), and real books to e-books. But when I learned that famed […]
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