Following the screening at the Dallas International Film Festival this week 'Live From The Astroturf' won the 'Audience Award for Documentary', the second award the film has won after the 'Best Documentary Short' award in Phoenix. Dennis and Cindy Dunaway, Chris Penn and director Steve Gaddis were again on hand to accept the award. More festival screening are hopefully on the way.
Dennis and Chris were also on local radio station Lone Star 92.5 promoting the film and you can see video from that on Facebook.

A reminder that Alice will be at the FanX Comic Convention in Salt Lake City this Friday and Saturday to sign autographs and take part in a Q&A. You can get more details here.

'The Well' has part 1 of a new golf related interview with Alice and while it's starts with golf there is other stuff in there as well.

Good to their word EarMusic have release details of the new Hollywood Vampires album 'Rise' which will be released on June 21st. The video for the first single can be seen below, with the full album press release undeneath.

The Hollywood Vampires – return with new music from their explosive second album, “Rise.” Rock and roll royalty Joe Perry, Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp and shock rock icon Alice Cooper join forces once again for the unmissable rock album of 2019.

Seconds into the opening track “I Want My Now,” it’s clear this supergroup has created something special – the chemistry between the individuals is unmistakable when they come together on stage or in the recording studio. Forget the star-studded lineup’s individual reputations, “Rise” is some of the purest, unapologetic and most enjoyable rock and roll of the year, made by masters of the craft and true fans of the form.

Unlike their 2015 debut record, the new album “Rise” consists mainly of original material, written by the band. There are however, in the spirit of the Vampires’ original mission, three covers of songs originally written and recorded by some fellow rockers who died far too young: an intimate and intense version of David Bowie’s “Heroes”,  beautifully performed by Johnny Depp; the late Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died,” and Johnny Thunder’s “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory,” sung by Joe Perry. Raucous rock anthems like “The Boogieman Surprise” and “Who’s Laughing Now” (the first single from the new album), capture the natural, raw, celebratory attitude of Hollywood Vampires displayed in their rowdy shows around the world.  But the album shows off their range as well with tracks like “We Gotta Rise” – a tongue-in-cheek politics song in the the tradition of Alice’s “Elected” – to the psychedelic gothic epic of “Mr. Spider.”

“‘Rise’ is not only a totally different animal than the first Vampires album, it is unique to anything I’ve ever been a part of.  I approached it very differently than I usually do when working on an album.  Each of us; Joe, Johnny, Tommy and myself have written songs on this album.  What is different though is that I didn’t try to change any songs to be more “Alice-like.”  Because each of us has different influences, the sound of this album is very cool.  I think that with this album, we are establishing what the Vampires’ sound really is, whereas with the first album we were more tipping our hats to our fallen rock n roll brothers.” – Alice Cooper

“’Rise’ came from pure creative energy, which is just like playing live with the Vampires. The record showcases everyone doing what they do best without anyone looking over our shoulders. There was no pressure or deadlines, allowing us to write and record an album that is one of the freest and most honest sounding records I’ve been part of. I can’t wait to perform some of these tunes live for our fans.” – Joe Perry

earMUSIC, the global independent rock label of Edel Germany GmbH, is proud to announce the worldwide signing of Hollywood Vampires. Following the release of Alice Cooper’s 2017 studio album “Paranormal” on earMUSIC, his best chart-performing work in decades, the label is proud to welcome the band to their family.

Produced by Tommy Henriksen and the Hollywood Vampires, “Rise” will be released on June 21^st, 2019 on earMUSIC as CD Digipak, 2LP+Download (various color vinyl) and Digital.

TRACK LIST

1. I Want My Now
2. Good People Are Hard To Find
3. Who’s Laughing Now
4. How The Glass Fell
5. The Boogieman Surprise
6. Welcome To Bushwackers (feat. Jeff Beck & John Waters)
7. The Wrong Bandage
8. You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory
9. Git From Round Me
10. Heroes
11. A Pitiful Beauty
12. New Threat
13. Mr. Spider
14. We Gotta Rise
15. People Who Died
16. Congratulations

EarMusic will be posting "Audio premiere and first album information" on their YouTube channel at 11pm UK time, 6pm EST for the US. You can set a reminder if you're signed into YouTube.
I've embed it below, but don't know whether it will work watching live directly on this page.

Nita Strauss was on Youtube the other day answering fan submitted questions which you can watch here.

The new 'Hellboy' movie, a 'R' rated reboot for the franchise which isn't getting the greatest reviews, apparently features 'Welcome To My Nightmare' on the soundtrack.

Kip Winger makes some nice references to Alice in a recent interview.

I mentioned earlier that the new Beasto Blanco video for 'The Seeker' was due Monday... well, it's just appeared on youtube so here it is!

Ryan Roxie releases a new single today from his 'Imagine Your Reality' album. This time it's 'Look Me In The Eye' and you can check out the video below. Roxie is currently in the road in the US as part of the 'Planet Axe' tour.

With the 'Live From The Astroturf' movie hitting the Detroit Film Festival this week there's more press to promote it including articles in Detroit Free Press and Music Radar.

Alice was in Phoenix on Wednesday (10th) at the ground breaking ceremony for a new 'White Castle' restaurant and was briefly interviewed by a local news channel KGUN. The restaurant chain has a "Hall Of Fame" and Alice was inducted a few years ago. In is honour the new outlet will have an 'Alice Cooper Corner' where a photo of Alice will be hung.

Beasto Blanco will release a new promo video for 'The Seeker' on Monday. It's the opening track of their new album 'We Are' and the promo was directed by Calico Cooper herself! There's a short preview on her Facebook page.

Talkhouse has an interview with Chainsaw Kittens frontman Tyson Meade talking about the influence Alice Cooper and 'Billion Dollar Babies' has had on his life and career.

Alice Cooper and Halestorm have added a show in Knoxville, TN on August 3rd at the Thompson Boling Arena. Tickets go on sale tomorrow via AC.com.

'Live From The Astroturf' won an award for 'Best Documentary Short' at the Phoenix Film Festival this weekend. Dennis and Cindy Dunaway, Christopher Penn and Steve Gaddis accepted the award.

Rat Pak Records have released full details of the new Beasto Blanco album "We Are" which will be released on May 24th. The full press release is as follows:

Beasto Blanco, the band comprised of Chuck Garric (long time Alice Cooper bassist) on guitars and vocals, Calico Cooper on vocals, Brother Latham on guitars, Jan LeGrow on bass and Sean Sellers on drums, will release their 3^rd studio album 'We Are' on May 24, 2019 via Rat Pak Records.  'We Are' is the follow up album to their highly successful 2016 self-titled sophomore release 'Beasto Blanco'. Produced by Ryan Greene, the new album is available for pre-order in various bundle configurations at: www.ratpakrecords.com/BeastoBlanco.
Regarding the new album Chuck Garric comments, "We spent a lot of time channeling, dissecting and arranging the songs from our new album. The idea was, "Let’s make 'our' record - not necessarily what’s popular now or what we think other people will like. We said, let’s make a record for us and our fans. Our fans are loyal and our sound is our sound."
Guitarist Brother Latham adds “We Are” is a novel record for us.  It shows maturity in the band, without surrendering our reckless abandon and love of rock n’ roll!"
Calico Cooper adds, "This record has teeth. It’s got a bite to it that I love. It’s message is from the people we see around us every day, it’s heartbeat is so loud. It says We are strong. We are indestructible. We are here. We Are!"
The track listing for 'We Are' is as follows:
01 The Seeker, 02 Solitary Rave, 03 Ready To Go, 04 Down, 05 Perception Of Me, 06 Let's Rip, 07 Half Life, 08 We Got This, 09 Follow The Bleed, 10 I See You In It, 11 Halcyon (Bonus-track CD & Download versions).

AZCentral has a long article about the premiere screening of the 'Live From The Astroturf' film tonight at the Phoenix Film Festival. Expect some special guests at the screening!
UPDATE: All four surviving members of the original Alice Cooper line up - Alice, Neal, Michael, and Dennis - where at the premiere.

Ryan Roxie could be a guest on the 'Electric Crush' radio show on April 9th between 7pm and 9pm. You can listen in to the show here.

While we're still awaiting any details about either Hollywood Vampires albums set for release this year, you can now welcome fellow vampires to your home with HV doormats!

Shep Gordon is interviewed on 'Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast'. which you can listen to here.

Alice Cooper has added an extra show in Cleveland, OH at the Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica (formerly Nautica Pavilion) on July 14th. Ticket go on sale Friday at 10AM local time with pre-sales starting tomorrow.

Blue Coupe have a indiegogo pledge campaign currently running to help finance there forthcoming third album. You can check out what's on offer here, which include downloads, signed discs, posters and cowbells!

Beasto Blanco, with Chuck Garric and Calico Cooper, have announced headline shows around their previously announced Halestorm support slot dates. These shows will promote their new album, which going from the adverts looks to be called "We Are", and one would assume it will be released around the same time. You can see the full list of shows in the image below.
Calico will also be a guest on 'The Jimmy Star Show' Wednesday on W4CY Radio between 3pm and 5pm. It looks like you can listen in here.

Nita Strauss has also added more dates to her tour. The new dates are as follows:
May 18th - Annapolis , MD at Ram’s Head On Stage
May 30th - Grand Rapids MI at The Stache at the Intersection
June 7th - Harrisburg, PA at Harrisburg Arts
June 9th - Rochester NY at Montage Music Hall
June 11th - Richmond VA at Canal Club
June 12th - Atlanta GA at Smith’s Olde Bar
June 13th - Nashville TN at The Basement
June 14th - Memphis TN at Rockhouse Live
June 15th - New Orleans LA at The Parish at The House of Blues
June 17th - Baton Rouge LA at Varsity Theater
June 19th - Austin TX at Come and Take It Live
June 20th - Dallas TX at Trees
June 21st - San Antonio TX at The Rock Box
June 22nd - Houston TX at Warehouse Live (w/ Static-X and DevilDriver)

Alice was out and about in Detroit last week, taking a break from recording new material! Detroit News snapped a pic of him having dinner with Bob Ezrin and Mark Farmer of Grand Funk Railroad, so presumably add his name to the guest list on the next album!

On Saturday Alice and Dash Cooper were at the Arizona Coyotes Ice Hockey match and "dropped the puck" at the start of the game. You can see footage here.

Solid Rock have announced more details about this years "Alice Cooper’s Annual Rock & Roll Fundraising Bash" which takes place on April 27th before the annual golf tournament. Guests this year include Neal Smith, Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Tommy Thayer (Kiss), Mickey Dolenz (The Monkees), Robby Kreiger (The Doors), Danny Seraphone (Chicago) and Jonathan Cain (Journey).

The Independent has an article/list of their 10 best Alice songs, which you can check out here.

Firstly, apologies for the site issues the last few days. There was a problem with the host server which I'm told should hopefully be fixed now. As a result I didn't want to do updates in case they were simply lost, so here's a catch up on what's come through in the last week:

Six new shows have just been announced for the USA preceding the Halestorm co-headline dates. They are:
July 4th - Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT
July 6th - Express Live!, Columbus, OH
July 7th - Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL
July 9th - Five Flags Center, Dubuque, IA
July 10th - The Sylvee, Madison, WI
July 11th - Honeywell Center, Wabash, IN
Tickets go on sale Friday but VIP Pre-sales begin tomorrow at AC.com.

Billboard has a new interview with Alice talking about his plans for this year including the tour, the forthcoming new solo album, and the new Hollywood Vampires releases.
Talking of the new tour Alice says "It's going to be a brand-new show, an entirely new production - all new staging, all new props and everything. It's taking a lot of the stuff we know we have to do and a lot of the stuff people are not going to be expecting. "
As to the new solo album, he's considering releasing an EP of four new songs in time for the tour, with the full new album to follow in 2020.
"There's a certain Detroit sound we're looking for [for the new songs]. It's indefinable. There's a certain amount of R&B in it. There's a certain amount of Motown in it. But then you add the guitars and you add the attitude and it turns into Detroit rock. I feel like if we mine around with all Detroit players, we're gonna find that sound." He also mentions guest appearances by fellow Detroit natives Suzi Quatro and Bob Seger. "I can tell you Seger and I will be working on something on this new album. I talked to him and he said, 'Oh, yeah, that's be fun,' and I said, 'OK, let's do it.' So that's going to happen in the future." The original band are also set to contribute material, presumably in a similar way to the previous two albums. You can read the whole interview here.

Alice will be appearing at the 'FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention' between April 19th and 20th at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, UT. This is a signing and Q&A session, not a show.

The 'Live From The Astroturf' film will be shown at a couple more film festivals in addition to the Phoenix premiere on April 5th. It will be shown at Freep Film Festival in Detroit, MI between April 10th and 14th, and the Dallas, TX International Film Festival between April 11th and 18th.

TruRockRevival have a cool interview with Beasto Blanco co-founder/guitarist Chris Latham. They previously interviewed Chuck and Calico which you can see here.

Keri Kelli's 'A New Revenge' have released another new video, this time for 'Never Let You Go' which you can see here. It's taken from their debut album ' Enemies & Lovers' which is released March 29th on Golden Robot Records. 'A New Revenge' features Keri with Tim 'Ripper' Owens (Judas Priest) on vocals, James Kottak (Scorpions, Kingdom Come) on drums and Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy, Whitesnake etc) on bass.