alice cooper Archive
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 […]
03 Feb 2012
DVD Review: From Straight to Bizarre
A new DVD from Sexy Intellectual – the outfit responsible for informative and incisive docu-DVDs on Brian Eno and many other influential figures in music – takes an in-depth look […]
29 Jan 2010
Album Review: Alice Cooper – Dada
For 1982’s Dada, Alice Cooper brought producer Bob Ezrin back to run the console. Ezrin and Cooper had worked together on many of Cooper’s most commercially successful albums in the […]
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