Alice has been announced as appearing at another horror convention. This one is 'Monster-Mania' which happens between March 13th and 15th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ. More info here.

'Nights With Alice Cooper' have posted the Guitar World magazine feature on 'Billion Dollar Babies'. It comes up as a series of small images but if you right-click and select "view image" (or similar) it should load the full size pic so you can read it.

There's a Youtube video up now of Alice appearing on 5 News discussing the Xmas Pudding show.
(Thanks Adam)

It's been a quiet Xmas but a couple of things to update. Below is the Avia advert featuring Alice which has now started airing. It features a short clip of Alice on the 'Old Grey Whistle Test'.

According to Fear.net Alice will be appearing at the Texas Fightmare Weekend Horror Convention between May 1st and 3rd in Dallas TX. They say this is likely to co-incide with the release of 'Suck', the Rock and Roll Vampire movie currently filming in Canada that also features Calico.

There's quite a few news reports now about the forthcoming Aviva advert featuring Alice, said to be one of the most expensive adverts ever made, though none really say anything new beyond what I reported last week.

Nights With Alice Cooper are running a competition (for US listeners only) to win "Cooper's Christmas Crap" via it's website. Check it out here.

The new edition of Phoenix Woman (early winter 2008) has a full page photo of Alice and Jordan Sparks as well as other pics of the Xmas Pudding and Esquire magazine (January issue 2009) has a half page article with Alice.
Pat also has some photos of Alice and family from the Salvation Army event at Cooperstown on December 18th.
(Thanks PsychoPat)

The SPV Audio Podcast Year-End Wrap-Up features Alice.

The Golf Channel will again be broadcasting from the Bob Hope Classic Golf Tournament starting January 21st. The schedule can be seen here.

AZCentral have a review of the Pudding show and photos.

PsychoPat has posted pics from the Xmas Pudding show and from the Runaway Phoenix show at Cooperstown on December 12th on his site. Unfortunatly the Runaway Phoenix show scheduled for December 19th has been canceled.
(Thanks PsychoPat)

ChartAttack have a short interview with Alice.

Russian band 'Pushking' mention on their MySpace page that Alice met up with them during the German tour and recorded a song called "Trouble Love" (originally from Pushking's "V.I.P." album) for a forthcoming album of Duets with the band. Keri Kelli also played on the track.

According to 'Het Belang van Limburg', a Belgian newspaper, Alice will be playing the metal festival "Graspop" again in 2009 (June 26-27-28) although it's not officially confirmed by Alice or Graspop).
(Thanks Andres)

Alice has been announced as appearing at the Bob Hope Classic as usual on January 21st - 25th in Palm Springs.

AZ Central, East Valley Tribune, and Phoenix New Times,  have articles on the Pudding show.

The new issue of Metal Hammer magazine (UK) includes 'Vengeance Is Mine' on their free CD. They also rate 'Along Came A Spider' about midway through their Critics top 50 albums of 2008.

Some cool photos from the Hamburg show can be seen here.

FuryRocks have a long interview with Eric Singer.

More Eric Singer Project shows have been announced. The full list now looks like this:
Feb 6th Kaiserslautern, Germany - Fritz Walter Stadion, VIP Lounge
Feb 7th Freiburg, Germany - Brauerei Ganther
Feb 8th Oberhausen, Germany - Schilderhalle
Feb 9th Uden, Holland - The nieuwe pul
Feb 10th Prague, Czech. Rep. - Retro Hall
Feb 13th Roncade, Italy - New Age Club
Feb 14th Pinarella di Cervia, Italy - Rock Planet Club
Feb 16th Verviers, Belgium - Spirit of 66
Feb 17th Memmingen, Germany - Kaminwerke
Feb 18th Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
Feb 20th Bergen, Norway - Garage Club
Feb 21th Jevnaker, Norway - Glassheim
Feb 22th Helsinki, Finland - Nosturi Club

www.nightswithalicecooper.com has had a new facelift with some new features.

Doors guitarist-singer Robby Krieger and a reformed 'Icon' (Alice guested on one of their albums many years ago) have been added to the lineup for the eighth Christmas Pudding in Phoenix this weekend.

Happy Birthday Dennis!

Chart Attack have a short interview with Alice.

Metal-Rules have a new interview with Keri Kelli. There's also a show review here.

The new issue of Classic Rock magazine includes 'The One That Got Away' on the free CD. as well as a few Alice mentions inside.

There's a new interview with (The Amazing) James Randi up on YouTube which mentions Alice around one minute, forty seconds in.
(Thanks Kyle)

Those with long memories may remember an announcement that Alice would be appearing in a animated series called "Hungry Hamsters". Since then, nothing. Well it seems the project is still going and there's a video about the production here. However there is NO mention of Alice so whether he's even still involved I don't know, however the link does comes from someone connected to the show as "Alice related".
UPDATE: Apparently he is!

Damon Johnson's old band Brother Caine have a limited edition official DVD out now. "It's a two disc set with never-before-seen backstage, offstage, and concert footage (a 40-minute show as the opening act for Van Halen in Fresno from '95), interview content, and the complete reunion concert from Pensacola, FL in 2005'" You can get a copy here.

Dash Cooper and Runaway Phoenix will be playing two shows in December at Cooperstown:
Friday December 12th (The night before the pudding show) and Friday December 19th both at 8:00pm

The Belgrade show on December 4th has been cancelled.

Bloody-Disgusting.com has more info about 'Suck', the new vampire movie which Alice will be in. Apparently Calico is also in the movie. Alice plays a bartender who haunts the lead singer of the band and Calico is a barmaid.
(Thanks Billy)

The issue of 'Bart Simpson's Treehouse Of Horror' that Alice co-wrote has been collected in a new Graphic Novel edition entitled 'The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: Dead Man's Jest'. You can get it from AmazonUK or AmazonUS.

There are lots of new photos from the german tour now up in the STUK Photo Section.

The final episode of 'Rock Band 2 The Stars' is now up on Youtube here.

Insurance Daily mention that Alice is to appear in a new advert for Aviva, the world’s fifth largest insurence company. TV adverts will feature celebrities who have changed their names and the campaign starts at Christmas.

'Black: Australian Dark Culture magazine' issue #3 (November 2008) has a nice 'Alice Cooper: Along Came A Psychotic Spider' feature. (Cover, plus 5 page full color feature). You can get a copy here.
(Thanks Steve)

Gibson.com highlight singers who have been ignored by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Shame. Top of their list is Alice.
(Thanks Jason)

Paul Shaffer of 'David Letterman' band fame will be mentioning Dennis Dunaway in his birthday slot on December 9th. More info about the show here.

On Saturday December 6th Alice will be at the Apache Wells Golf Course in Mesa, Arizona for 100 holes of Golf to raise money for 'The Rock' teen center. You can sponser him at $1.00 per hole by calling 602-522-9200.

The Anderson Independent Mail has a far too short interview with Alice about the original band.

LiveVideo has a Alice doing a short promo for a web site called shaggylive.com.

In the new issue of Blender magazine, they asked musicians to give their top songs everyone should download. Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello's #9 of his "Rifftacular List" is 'School's Out', of which he says "Stuck in conservative suburbia, this was the '**** Tha Police' of it's day."

Ryan Roxie will be performing his Gibson Guitar Clinics in Denmark next month. The dates are:
1st Dec '08 Musikhuset - Næstved
2nd Dec '08 Musikhuset Aage Jensen - Odense
3rd Dec '08 Eskildsen/Musikhuset Aage Jensen - Århus
4th Dec '08 Super Sound/Musikhuset Aage Jensen - København

There's photos from the Essen show online at rocknroll-reporter and Kissfanclub.de.

Due to circumstances beyond the bands control tomorrow nights New York Dolls show at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey, due to feature Dennis Dunaway and 'Blue Scarlet Coupe', has been postponed. A building code problem means the venue is unable to proceed with the show.

Rolling Stone has put together a list of the 100 greatest singers, which is about as interesting as it sounds, however what is of interest to us is that Alice voted for his choices, and you can see his voting form here.
(Thanks Brian)

The Eric Singer Project have added another date to their slowly growing Euro-tour. They play Uden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands at the 'De Pul' club on February 9th 2009.

WUZZ FM in Meadville, PA is running a competition to win signed Alice Cooper golf balls. The '12 Days Of Alice Cooper Christmas' begins on Friday December 5th.  Each weekday for 12 days - they'll call out a registered WUZZ listeners name during the Classic Cafe show. They will have 12 minutes to call in to claim Alice Coopers autographed balls as well as a special holiday card too!  All winners qualify for the grand prize package - a 2009 season pass at Whispering Pines Golf Course, a new driver, a new golf bag, and an autographed copy of Alice Cooper's autobiographical "Golf Monster" book. More info here.

Alice hosted the Parnelli Awards in Las Vegas on October 24th. The award "recognizes pioneering, influential professionals and their contributions, honoring both individuals and companies." There's a short film about Alice you can download at the official awards site.

The fifth episode of 'Rock Band 2 The Stars' is now up on Youtube.

The Eric Singer Project have added a show in the Czech Republic on February 6th in Prague at the Retro Music Hall.

Yahoo Sports have a short article and pic about Alice's golfing habit.

Johnny-Bingo,com has posted  some photos from the Protors Theatre, Schenectady show in October 26th. Check them out here.

Tickets for this year's Xmas Pudding show go on sale on Sunday November 16th. Tickets range from $33 to $63 for general admission and $203 for VIP seating, which includes a seat at one of the cabaret type tables in front of the stage, an artist attended pre-show reception, as well as a pre-show dinner. All proceeds from the event will benefit Solid Rock, whose mission is to make an everlasting difference in the lives of children and teens throughout our community. Alice called in to KDKB on Tuesday morning to talk with presenters J.R.+Mary about this years show. He stated that he will be joined onstage by Bob Welsch, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Runaway Phoenix (featuring Dash Cooper), Les Stroud (Survivorman), Rodger Cline and the PeaceMakers and Billy Bob Thornton. He also mentioned some tenative guests who have not yet been finalized including Mick Fleetwood, Leslie West (Mountain), Whiskey Falls (with Damon Johnson) and said that Rob Halford (Judas Priest) will probably be stopping by.
Alice will be making an appearance at the 'Coat Drive' this Friday morning November 14th with J.R.+Mary at Christown Mall of Camelback and 19th Ave in Phoenix, before he heads off to Germany.
(Thanks PsychoPat)

Blue Scarlet Coupe, with Al Bouchard, Richie Scarlet and Dennis Dunaway will be opening for the New York Dolls at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey on November 22nd. Also on the bill are Frankenstein 3000 and Tuff Darts.

Check out the poster for the Blue Coupe show on Saturday November 15th in NYC.

According to various reports Alice will be appearing in a new Rock and Roll vampire spoof film entitled "Suck". Also listed as appearing are Henry Rollins, Moby, Iggy Pop and Malcom McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Halloween, Heroes). Whether this ever actually happens is a different matter as I read one piece that suggested it isn't even written yet!

There's a short piece on 'Along Came A Spider' at PluggedIn.com.

Alice's concert in Belgrade will be held in Belgrade Arena (Beogradska Arena, where Eurovision 2008 was held), not in Hala Sportova, as it was earlier announced. The place of the event has been changed because apparently Hala Sportova wouldn't be able to fulfill technical standards Alice's management had asked for. You can check out on the venue's site here.
(Thanks Stela, Tanya)

Live Daily have a review of the Halloween show at Foxwoods. Syracuse New Times has a review from Turning Stone.

Episode 4 of 'Rock Band 2 The Stars' is up on Youtube.

Phoenix New Times has details of this years "Proof Is In The Pudding" competition to win a place on the bill for the Xmas Pudding show.

I mentioned a few days ago that Dennis Dunaway and Blue Coupe would be playing an the big Halloween parade in NYC. You can spot them in this YouTube clip (Fast forward to about 1:30), and there are some pics over at the BDS mailing list.
Blue Coupe will also be playing a free show on Saturday November 15th at 'Le Royale' club on 7th Avenue South in New York City. The band features Joe Bouchard, Albert Bouchard and Dennis Dunaway with the support of Andy Hilfiger. Doors open at 9pm and the show starts at 10pm. There will be free T-Shirts and other giveaways and Joe will have copies of his brand new solo album available.

ESP, the Eric Singer Project (with Chuck Garric of course) have more European Dates (but STILL no UK show!):
Feb. 4th: Mainz, Germany - KUZ
Feb. 7th: Freiburg, Germany - Ganter Brauereihalle
Feb. 8th: Kaiserslauten, Germany - Halle Nordtribühne

Rock Band 2 The Stars #3 is now up on YouTube to check out.

Schenectady Daily Gazette has a show review which I missed earlier.
(Thanks Tim)

The Philadelphia Daily News, New Haven Register, and the South Jersey Courier Post all have short Alice interviews.

The Eric Singer Project have announced three more dates for Italy. They are:
Feb. 12 - Legend 54 - Milan, Italy
Feb. 13 - New Age Club - Roncade (Treviso), Italy
Feb. 14 - Rock Planet - Pinarella Di Cervia (Ravenna), Italy
C'mon guys, where's the UK shows?!?

Tommy Clufetos is featured in a new DVD about his playing and background that includes Tommy showing you how to play a couple of Rob Zombie songs. It's available from IMVDVD and they have a trailer mentioing Tommys involvement with Alice.

Finally, a bizarre one. Ever wanted your own Alice Cooper finger puppet? Well 100Rock have got one for you!

The Schenectady Daily Gazette has an interview with Alice as does the North Jersey Record.

There's a promo video for Alice's Munster Marathon turned up on YouTube.

There's also a couple of TV repeats to watch for if you missed them before. The 'Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations' show is on again on The Travel channel (US) Monday November 3rd at 6:00 PM and Alice's appearance on 'That 70s Show' is on WGCW on Saturday November 8th at 7:30 PM.
(Thanks Jason)

A quick catch up as we've been having a few problems here with the site.

Further to the Munsters story below, the show has a web page with a cool little quiz featuring Alice. Check it out here.
(Thanks Gabor)

The second episode of 'Rock Band 2 The Stars' is now up on Youtube.

The Eric Singer Project have added a second date to the European tour. It's at the Glassheim in Jevnaker, Norway on Saturday, February 21st. Tickets are here.

Joe Bouchard has a new album on the way entitled "Jukebox In My Mind" and has posted some new tunes on his MySpace.

The Daily News Tribune has a preview of the Boston show. The Taunton Daily Gazette has the same article. The Boston Herald has an interview as does the Schenectady Daily Gazette.

'Guitar World' Holiday 2008 issue has Alice content in it. On the cover it says  'Billion Dollar Days Revisited' and it also has bass lines for 'School's Out'.
(Thanks DA)

On October 27th Rob Halford of Judas Priest will be Alice's guest on 'Nights With Alice Cooper'.

Blabbermouth report: "This Halloween you'll howl with laughter and scream with delight as WGN America presents "The Monstrous Munster Mash", 16 classic back-to-back episodes of "The Munsters", television's First Family of Fright. Appropriately hosted by legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper, the eight-hour marathon featuring the odd occupants of 1313 Mockingbird Lane will air Friday, October 31 from 4:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. PT) to midnight ET (9:00 p.m. PT).
Immediately following the marathon, WGN America will air an exclusive 30-minute behind-the-scenes special "World Premiere: Alice Cooper's Along Came A Spider" (12 midnight ET/ 9:00 p.m. PT) featuring the cable debut of music videos and clips from Alice's new album, "Along Came a Spider" (SPV Records), which chronicles a classic battle between good and evil. "Along Came a Spider" features Slash on guitar ("Vengeance is Mine") and is the 25th studio album of Alice's long and illustrious career."

The Times Union has an inteerview with Alice here.

DaveyRocks.net has been chatting with guitarist Keri Kelli and you can hear the interview on YouTube in three parts starting here. 

The Eric Singer Project (including Chuck Garric, Bruce Kulick and John Corabi) are returning to Europe next February. The first show to be announced is in Switzerland on February 18th at the Z7 club. Hopefully more dates will be announced shortly.

Damon Johnson and Whiskey Falls are featured in a video for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The clip "educates the public on how to prepare friends and family for the digital television (DTV) transition". There's also a competition to win a home entertainment system. Check it out here.

Alice was on Canadian show "Tout Le Monde En Parle" on Sunday and there's video up now on the shows site (although it doesn't seem to like Firefox).
(Thanks Syl)

The Times & Transcript has a article about Eric Singers PA in Moncton.
KNAC has a review of the Ottawa show.

According to TV Land, Alice will feature on the show 'Myths And Legends' in an episode entitled 'Curses, Corpses and Alice Cooper'. 
(Thanks Emily)

Dennis and Cindy Dunaway's shop 'Moon Hollow' is now an online enterprise. You can check out some cool gifts and hallowen fare, including some made by Cindy herself (who of course designed the early Alice Cooper stage costumes and appeared in the show). The main site is at Moon-Hollow.com while their Ebay shop can be found here.

Blue Coupe, the occasional band featuring the Bouchard brothers (from Blue Oyster Cult), Joe and Albert, and Dennis Dunaway will be playing on a float in the Halloween Night Parade in the Village in New York City.

Alice's appearance on Canada's 'The Scene' is up on Youtube. The 'Times Transcript' has a text interview.

Travellers In Time has posted a flashback review of 'Lace And Whiskey.'

Brave Words has more Alice content with photos here and here from the Montreal show.

'Nights With Alice Cooper' is running a competition to win a guitar.

The New Brunswick Urban Voice has words with Alice and Eric Singer. The Times and Transcript also have Eric chatting here.

Brave Words has some photos up from Ottawa. Metal Universe has photos from Montreal and a review in French.
(Thanks Patryk)

Alice will be one of the guests on "Tout Le Monde En Parle" this coming Sunday (8pm, EST) on Radio-Canada(tv).
(Thanks Unafraid and Jerome)

Alice appeared on "The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos" on CBC Monday night and it seems you can watch the show online here.
(Thanks Nancy)

The Telegraph Journal has a new interview with Alice.

96.5 The Mill is running a competition for show tickets and backstage passes.

Artisan News is reporting that Alice may appear on Slash's forthcoming solo album.

The Ottawa Citizen has a review of the Ottawa show. Mitch Lafon has some photos up from the same show and there's another review here.

The Universal Wheels show review and interview with Eric Singer are now online here.

After appearing at the launch for the upcoming VH-1 Classic show "Rock Band" a few weeks ago, it now turns out Alice will be one of the hosts on the show which starts airing on October 15th (although it doesn't list it on the channels schedule). To quote: "Professional rock stars Alice Cooper and Sebastian Bach will play hosts to 12 wannabe rockers who live in a loft together and vie to out-skill each other in challenges designed to showcase Rock Band 2's new features." More info can be found at Hollywood Insider and there's a trailer here featuring Alice. The show has a website here but there isn't much of interest there yet.
VH-1 also have a video of Alice talking about that chicken again, from the Rock Honors 2008 show it says.

The Globe and Mail has an interview with Alice about Detroit.

More press today. The Montreal Mirror has a short interview. Planet Weekly has a review of 'Along Came A Spider'.

Universal Wheels also has a album review, with a live review and a chat with Eric Singer is coming soon.

Alice Cooper appears three times in the 2008 Arrow Rock Top 500 from the Netherlands with 'Halo Of Flies' again featuring high at #19.
(Thanks Angelo)

On Tuesday 14th October, 8:30 pm (Canada, eastern time), www.cfou.ca will broadcast four live Dennis Dunaway Project songs recorded at The Cutting Room (NYC, 25th January 2008) and Daniel Street (CT, 27th of July 2007). They also have a special program dedicated to Tish and Snooky (Manic Panic, NYC), close friends of Cindy and Dennis Dunaway, who will be talking about punk music, dying hair and Alice Cooper too. This will air on Tuesday 21st October, at 7:30 pm (Canada, eastern time).
(Thanks Serge) 

The Hour in Canada has a short Alice interview here as does the London Free Press.

Alice has a letter published promoting the 2008 PLSN/FOH Parnelli Celebrity Golf Classic here. The event happens on  October 23rd at the Siena Golf Club in Las Vegas with proceeds going to Alice's Solid Rock Foundation.

Chris Yambar, the writer and artist for The Simpsons comic books Alice co-wrote and featured in a couple of years ago (Bart Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror) is doing a signing session at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 381 Boardman-Poland Road, Youngstown, OH at 7 p.m. Saturday. The reason I mention it is that Vindy.com has the news with some words about Alice from Yambar.

Further to the report a few days ago that the Corner Brook show was in doubt it now seems everything is safe and the show will go ahead according to the Western Star.

The Star Phoenix has a show review.

The AC.com newsletter have posted the following update on what happened to the 'Late Late Show' performance.
"Well folks, he’s at it again… Alice Cooper, your favourite shock rocker, has again succeeded in shocking the censors in America.  But we have just the remedy for you! Last night Alice played “Vengeance Is Mine” from 'Along Came A Spider' on 'The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson' on the CBS Network in the U.S.  And he wasn’t allowed to do it the way he wanted to! He wanted to re-enact a piece of his new video by picking a female victim from the audience to choke with a silk scarf.  But the TV Station wouldn’t allow it!  Huh?!  Like we don’t see violence on the news?  Anyways…..Alice wasn’t allowed to.  All’s not fair in TV and Rock ‘n’ Roll it seems."

Plaskis.se has an album review. Fear.net and Topnews (amongst otehrs) have short pieces about the 'Late Late Show.' Guelph Mercury has a short interview.

It's been a bit of a wait but finally you can check out the new 'Along Came A Spider' mini-movie over at Myspace. There's also a documentary on the movie with comments from Alice, Shep Gordon, Slash and Billy Bob Thornton.

Not quite sure what's going on here, as last report was that Alice would be on the 'Late Late Show' tonight, not the 29th, but anyway Blabbermouth are reporting that Alice's performance of 'Vengeance Is Mine' was censored. They say:
"Alice Cooper, appearing on CBS-TV's "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" last night (Monday, September 29), was the victim, yet again, of corporate meddling in his rock 'n' roll. It's called censorship and Cooper, currently promoting his "Along Came A Spider" (SPV) album, has met this particular beast numerous times during his 40-year career.
The album tells the story of a serial killer and as part of the song, Alice was going to re-enact a piece of his video by picking a female victim from the audience to choke with a silk scarf during the band's live performance of "Vengeance is Mine". (Both the album version of the song and the video feature ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash.) What viewers saw was a truncated version of what actually happened. Unfortunately, the "murder" of one of his victims was just too much for CBS-TV's censors (although Ferguson loved it) and, as such, his request was denied."
They also add "The uncensored version of the new thre-song video including "Vengeance is Mine" can be seen on MySpace.com/AlongCameAVideo as well as YouTube.com/SPV and Imeem.com/AliceCooper starting Wednesday, October 1."

New press articles come from the Couriermail in Australia, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, and Naanoo.com.

Nightwatcher has a new interview with Neal Smith at his site here.

Don't forget Alice is on the 'Late Late Show' again tonight, hopefully the performance of "Vengeance Is Mine" he recorded when there a month or so back.
UPDATE: The show website has been changed showing Alice's performance for TOMORROW's show.

Eric Singer will be appearing on Saturday, September 27th at Mother's Music "The Drum Shop"  in Edmonton. Although the site doesn't indicate a time, it is from 3pm to 5pm (according to a VUE magazine newspaper advert). It seems to be free of charge.
After this Eric proceeds to do more in-store appearances at:
September 28th Lethbridge, AB - Note-Able Music
October 1st Regina, SK - Long & McQuade
October 6th Hamilton, ON - Pongetti's Musical Instruments
October 7th Newmarket, ON - The Arts Music Store
October 8th Oshawa, ON - Long & McQuade
October 11th Ottawa, ON - Long & McQuade
October 17th Halifax, NS - Long & McQuade
October 18th St. John, NB - Long & McQuade
October 19th Mocton, NB - Live Wire Record Expo
October 21st St. John's, NF - Long & McQuade
For more details on these events, please contact the stores directly.
For info on the Live Wire Expo call (506) 383-9473.

There's a new statement from Alice posted to the Solid Rock Foundation site in which Alice comments on the current status of 'The Rock' amongst other things.

There's a one page comic strip in the German music magazine 'Unclesally's" #139 about Alice. You can get the magazine in a lot of German record stores, bars and clubs for free, or check out the .pdf file here.
(Thanks Andreas)

The Metro has a short article taking quotes from 'Golf Monster'.

Obsidian Fox Photography has some nice live pics online here.Nev has posted some cool photos here.

Edmonton's 'Vue Weekly' has a few words with Alice here as does Canada.com and See Magazine.

Kamloops This Week has a short show review.

Local newspapers and websites are announcing a new show on December 4th in Hala Sportova, Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia.
(Thanks Stela)

The Western Star is reporting slow ticket sales for the October 22nd Cornerbrook show and urges fans to get tickets in advance to stop a cancelation. There's a cool image as well.

The Daily Herald Tribune has a new interview with Alice, an the Vancouver Sun has a few words with him as well.

Two new magazines are hitting the shelves in Italy with Alice content. Italian magazine 'Metal Maniac' for September (#9) has Alice on the cover and inside, and the Italian version of 'Metal Hammer' also has an Alice feature.
(Thanks Michael)

Ryan Roxie has two Gibson guitar clinics coming up in Sweden in Bergeforsen on September 19th and Sundsvall at Pipeline on September 20th.

A quick update on what's going on with Steve Hunter.  Steve has just completed his latest European tour with Lou Reed, performing the 'Berlin' album live. The DVD of the movie and CD of the live soundtrack to the movie will be released in the UK around October 21st (September 30th in the USA). There's a new CD out now called 'Short Stories' which is a collection of rock, blues and mood music, available on CDbaby and downloadable on his MySpace and iTunes. He has completed three separate interviews for 'Guitar World' magazine and a new in-depth interview for 'Vintage Guitar Magazine' will go out in the December/Jan issue. Lastly a book in tablature format of Steve's arrangements on 'Hymns For Guitar' is in the pipeline for the end of the year.
(Thanks Karen)

There's a new interview today over at Canada.com which is duplicated at the Victoria Times Colonist.

Jam Music in Canada has a new interview with Alice.

You can check out some pics from the Las Vegas shows here.

Alice will apparently be appearing at the Viper Room in LA on Monday 15th September as part of a 'Rock Band 2' promotional event. It appears he will be in a plastic guitar battle with Sebastian Bach!!

According to a posting by Keri Kelli, Alice and the band will be on the 'Late Late Show' again on September 29th. Presumably this will be the performance of 'Vengeance Is Mine' which was recorded but not aired for the show earlier this week but that's just a guess.

'Nights With Alice Cooper' is running a competition to win DVD sets of the second series of 'Dexter'. As usual they won't allow anyone outside the US to take part. On Wednesday 17th September they will be repeating Alice's interview with Michael, Dennis and Neal from last year.
Sweden will apparently now be getting the radio show from tonight and every saturday there after on Rock Klassiker 106.7.

iCity.se in Sweden has a short article on Ryan Roxie here.

Last.FM have a listing for a new show on December 2nd in the Czech Republic at Rondo.
(Thanks Gabor)

Alice's appearance on 'The Late Late Show' has now turned up on YouTube. The band performed two songs for the show but in the end 'Elected' was aired instead of the previously announced 'Vengeance Is Mine' which will hopefully air at a later date.

LiveDaily has an interview with Alice. They have also posted the original audio of the interview.

The Washington Times suggests 'Elected' for the presidential hopefuls theme song.

Radio station KDKB (where 'Nights With Alice Cooper originates) have launched their 'Cooper Cash' promotion again starting Monday, September 22nd.  All you need to do is listen to 93.3 KDKB for your name at 7:30am, 11:30am, and 3:30pm to win. More info here.

Julie Jackson has posted her photos from 'Rock The Bayou' on Facebook here and here.
(Thanks Hunter)

Eric Singer will be making an appearance at the Kiss convention on October 19th in Moncton at Marty LeBlanc's record expo in the Fundy Room of the Crowne Plaza hotel on Main Street before he plays with Alice in the evening. More info here.

Backstage Auctions have more Alice memorabilia coming up for auction soon. The 'David Fishof All Access Rock Auction' will feature a collection of rare memorabilia, including signed guitars, posters and ephemera from the British Rock Symphony Tour. Keep an eye on their site for info.

Rumour has it Slash appears in the forthcoming video for 'Vengeance Is Mine' which was recently completed.

There's a new magazine on the stands in the UK from 'Metal Hammer'. The special issue concentrates of 'Slipknot' but also covers other "Shock Rock" artists and has a nice four page feature on Alice along with oither mentions. The current normal issue of 'Metal Hammer' also has a review of 'Along Came A Spider'.

Beginning September 15th, WNOR FM99 in Norfolk,VA, will be broadcasting all 5 hours of 'Nights With Alice Cooper' nightly.
(Thanks DA)

The official Alice Cooper Myspace page has confirmed the news posted here on August 22nd that Alice will be on the "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on September 10th. They add "Along with an interview, Alice and the band will be performing the song 'Vengeance '."

PsychobabbleTV has posted a nice interview with Calico Cooper on Youtube here.

The Las Vegas Review Journal has an interview with Alice.

Sweden Rock Magazine #154 has a sizable Alice feature.

'Gothic Beauty' magazine #26 has a page long picture of Alice and a interview.
(Thanks Emily)

The Dennis Dunaway Projects great cover of Spinal Taps "Big Bottom" is featured on another tribute album entitled "Heir Apparent", a tribute to 80's hair bands. They have a MySpace page here.

This last one is probably too late (as I've only just seen it) but you can hear Renee Dunaway on the Electric Ballroom (as mentioned a few days ago) at WRAT.COM tonight (Sunday September, 7th) at 10 p.m. EST.

Check out this amusing advert for Samsung HDTV's featuring Alice!

There's a new Alice interview at the Arizona Star here. Tuscon Citizen has a shorter interview. The Las Vegas Sun also has an interview, this one with a cool cartoon Alice.

Ink19 has a review of 'Along Came A Spider'.
(Thanks Matt)

Win Alice's Pants (again!). Alice has donated signed pants and a photo to be auctioned tomorrow by Operation Interdependence, a nonprofit group that sends items and notes to U.S. military men and women serving overseas. More info here.

Renee Dunaway will be featured on 'Electric Ballroom' at WRAT 95.9 in the next few days. More when I have it.

Issue 33 of 'Fireworks' UK magazine has a review of the album and a page and a half interview with Ryan Roxie.
The October issue of 'Record Collector' has a half page of Alice with reviews. It also has a page about music to TV adverts by features the Mastercard ad with School's Out.
(Thanks Robert)

The Italian version of Rolling Stone Magazine has a large feature of Alice in the September issue.
(Thanks Mic)

Houston Press has a few pics from the Houston show.

Canada.com has a short review of the album.

The Houston Chronicle has a show review and pics.

According to Uncut Alice will have his version of a Status Quo album cover up for auction! "The celebs have created their own versions of classic Quo single and album covers and all money raised at the Bonhams auction on November 5 will go to The Prince's Trust."

EW has a list of 25 cult movies which includes 'The Decline Of Western Civilization Part 2" and has an Alice pic (starting at #23 in the gallery).

Check out another of Chuck Garric's projects, 'The Barons', over on Myspace where you can take a listen to them.

The Sydney Morning Herald has an interview with Alice here.

There's new photos from the Columbus show, courtesy of Remarkably Insincere, in the photo section with Detroit photos to be added shortly as well.

Dick Wagner has posted the following update on his website about his health and current projects:

For those of you who are logging on to hear a health report from me: It's the middle of July 2008, and I am happy to report that I am healthier than I have been in several years. I made it past July 3rd, the first anniversary of my death and resurrection and am looking forward to many years of living still to come. Today I actually read through 30 pages of messages on my guest book, all inquiries and well wishes concerning my health… and I broke into tears.  I guess I never realized how many fans from around the world actually care for my well being. I am humbled and thankful for each message and intend on personally answering each one in the next few days, but as for today…I am in the middle of writing new songs and can't break the focus right now. I hope you'll understand…it feels so good to be making music again that I am also happier than I have been in years.  I'm starting to practice my guitar again and although it's a struggle, I will be fully functional and ready to get back on the stage very soon. I'd, like also to report that my book "Not Only Women Bleed" is finished and ready for release as soon as I can settle on the proper publisher.  It's in the works and I hope you all will enjoy my memories and stories of Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. I have written 28 songs in the last 3 months…I'm on a roll and I am excited.  Hang in there with me and lets share a great musical future.
Thank you for your friendship and support.
Dick Wagner

The September issue of "Rue Morgue" magazine has an Alice Cooper front cover and article.

Houston Press has an interview with Alice as does the Houston Chronicle, The North Bay Nugget,  and the Post-Crescent.

Illinois Herald and Review and Vue Weekly have short reviews of the album.

Jimmy Degrasso will be standing in for Eric Singer between tonight and the 12th September Hutchinson show as Eric has commitments with Kiss. Jimmy, of course,has played  with Alice in the past and appears on 'A Fistful Of Alice'. He also played with Megadeth amongst others. 

Talking of drummers, Tommy Clufetos will be playing the following Drum Clinics in Europe for Sonar drums. Catch him at:
Aug 29th - Hannover, Germany - PPC Music - Drum Night Festival
Sep 1st - Stockholm, Sweden - Slagverket/Musikborsen--Sonar Day
Sep 2nd - Karlstad, Sweden - Slagverkskompaniet

The Edmonton Sun has a short interview with Alice here. The Winnipeg Sun has a short article by the same author.

The Rebel Yell, Navada has an album review.

The New York Post has a short Alice interview.

The Edmunton Journal has a small album review if you scroll down here.
(Thanks Steve)

Alice has added ' Feminine Side' to the show as of last night in addition to 'Vengeance Is Mine' which was added on August 10th.

New interviews with Alice can be found at The St. Johns Telegraph, Cincinnati.com, Columbus Dispatch, and APP.com.

The Imperial Republican has some background about the Imperial show and the weather problems faced at that show.

Alice will apparently be appearing on the 'Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson' again on September 10th and you can get tickets to the 3.30pm recording by signing up here.

Alice will be doing a rare in-store signing session in Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday September 17th from 5.30pm to 7.00pm at Scrape Records, (323 East Broadway). Customers who purchase 'Along Came A Spider' from the store between now and the day will get preferential treatment at the session but you do NOT need to buy the album to meet Alice.
(Thanks Tim)

99.5 The Eagle appear to have an Alice Cooper special tonight (it says 'tonight', but doesn't give a date) at 6pm which I think is 11pm UK time, before they air NWAC, but could be wrong. It will feature an interview with Neal Smith chatting about the old days. You can listen online here.

Congratulations to Lynda and Damon Johnson on the arrival of little Jolene yesterday. Mother and baby are well and you can read all the details, and see a pic, on Damon's MySpace page here. Best wishes from all of us here at STUK!

UPDATE: Just found out that at 9am today Total Rock will have an hour long show on Alice Cooper. You can listen online.

Alice has been busy doing interviews again it seems. Cleveland Scene has a short interview here, apparently (unless they've fixed it) he's a "Shock Rocer" haha. The Peoria Journal Star also has an interview as does Vindy.com. Pantagraph.com has two Alice features, one is an older interview from 2005 and the other more recent.

Alice was apparently on the 'Mancow' syndicated radio show in the US yesterday. They do archive things so his appearance could turn up on their site here but unfortunately you have to pay to access the content.
(Thanks Lobsterrok)

The new issue of Classic Rock has a few Alice mentions including a top 10 songs thing which has a short sidebar by Alice on songwriting. 'Under My Wheels' makes the chart. They are also taking votes for their annual awards and 'Along Came A Spider' is up for best album. You can vote here.

Indy.com has a short mention and photo. Phoenix New Times has Alice at #2 in a list of Arizona "heavy Metal" residents. Rob Halford is #1, probably because they have an interview with him.

NY1 has an interview and video of photographer Bob Gruen, which has Alice Cooper references.

Keri Kelli has posted the following update to what's going on in his world:
"I'm very excited to announce custom designed Keri Kelli Guitar Hero Faceplates now available in the merchandise section (on KeriKelli.com)! With the coolest video game sweeping the planet, I have enlisted Painted Axe to help create these new designs. Please check their site out at www.PaintedAxe.com.
The new Alice Cooper Video/Movie for Feminine Side/Killed By Love/Vengeance is almost complete. The ruff cut I watched was absolutely killer and the master edit should be out shortly. Much kudos to Piggy D. and Gabrielle Geiselman for their great work and vision.
August 31st, Chuck Garric and I, along with friends Jani Lane (Warrant), A. Jay Popoff (LIT) and Chad Stewart (Faster Pussycat) will be playing at the VIP after-show party located at the Meridian Theatre in Houston, TX. We'll be performing as "The Arrogant Bastards". More info on this special event can be found at www.rockthebayou.com."

WOWT has a short story about Alice's golf came at Council Bluffs.

A pro-shot clip of Alice performing 'School's Out' at the recent Swedish Rock Festival has shown up on YouTube.

According to PlanetRock Alice is featured on a new compilation album featuring a variety of musicians covering well known Christmas songs. Alice is on a version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" along with  John 5 (Marilyn Manson/Rob Zombie) on guitar, 
Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big/ Niacin/ David Lee Roth) on bass and Vinnie Appice (Heaven and Hell/ Black Sabbath) on drums. It's due out October 13th.

Piggy D has posted an update on myspace about the forthcoming 'Along Came A Spider' video short which he co-directed along with Gabrielle Geiselman. "Gabrielle and I saw the first cut of the new Alice Cooper video we just directed last night. I gotta say it is looking badass!!! I think my favorite moment is "Killed By Love" which was directed by Gabrielle. She is not only my favorite photographer, but absolutely schooled the video. It is completely stunning...I can't describe it any other way. For you hardcore Cooper fans, we hid some little tidbits for you to figure out. Its gonna be a blast to see this thing done and hear your feedback."

Shepherd Express has a review and a couple of pics of the Milwaukee show here.

Kyler Clarke (Guitar tech for Alice) has a cool band called 'Calahan' and they are in the running for an opening slot on the next Motley Crue tour, which is being decided by fan votes. So you know what you gotta do!! Check out their myspace page for info on how to vote. Breaks like this can be life changing for smaller bands so STUK urges everyone to take a couple of minutes to register to vote and help them out.

TahoeDailyTribune has an interview with Chuck Garric, during which he reveals how Alice almost killed him at a recent show when he had sword trouble!

UWeekly has a short interview with Alice.

SVT have some photos of Alice at the Sweden Festival here and there's more here.

The following has been posted to the official Alice Cooper Myspace page regarding the video footage filmed last week:
"New video coming soon! It's actually more like a mini-movie! Directed by Piggy D., it has performance and conceptual footage of Alice and the band. We'll post it here and on youtube.com when it is wrapped and ready."

NotSoPerfect has posted her pics from the Riverside show here.

There's a good review of the Sioux City show at the Sioux City Journal with photo.

The Sun has a short album review.

New album reviews: Metal Rules, and Tascaloosa News.

River Front Times has a review and pics from the St Louis show.

The Mesabi Daily News has a few words with Alice. You have to sign up to read it though (it's free)

Several sites are now reporting that during the recent video shoot Alice broke a rib during a localised earthquake! The full press release is as follows:
"While filming a promotional film on July 29th for his new 'Along Came A Spider' (SPV) album at Linda Vista Hospital, an abandoned facility in East L.A., a 5.4 earthquake shook Los Angeles to its very core. He happened to be choking a nurse at the time. The 5.4 quake was the strongest since the devastating 1994 Northridge quake, shaking Alice, the band, and everyone on the set (including director Piggy D) into a stunned silence. The epicenter was in nearby Chino Hills.
“The floor started moving. Whoa, this is more powerful than I thought! I hope they keep it! You can’t get special effects like that,” enthused Cooper, who had just wrapped production on the film that features lengthy portions - up to two minutes each - of “Vengeance Is Mine,” (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side” and “Killed By Love,” all from the new album.
The current "Psycho-Drama" tour, approximately 100 shows from July 5 to December 4, is still as physical as ever. In Redmond, Oregon last week, fans watched fascinated as Alice took a violent fall. Few noticed just how crushing the thud was. Most figured it was part of the show. Alice, hurting, continued with the performance and with a few performances after that, negating any suggestions to get himself checked out. Finally, giving in to those whose job it is to keep him healthy, he learned he had broken a rib and suffered ligament damage. Doctors advised him it would take three weeks of inactivity and rest to fully recover.
Fat chance. Cooper continues on tour, unrestrained.
So, not an earthquake, not a cracked rib, not ligament damage, can stop Alice from entertaining his loyal fans.
The show must go on indeed."

Piggy D has been talking on his Myspace page about the video he just did with Alice. Check out what he says here.

The Argus Leader has a short interview with Alice today.

The August issue of the Dutch magazinr 'Revolver' is expected to have a large interview/feature with Alice.
(Thanks Kornelis)

According to Rolling Stone 'Along Came A Spider' has entered the US charts at #53. As with the UK postitions (and other countries it appears) this is a big improvemnet on the last couple of albums. In fact by our calculations this is Alice's highest entry since '91's 'Hey Stoopid' album, 116 places higher then 'Dirty Diamonds' and a huge 131 places ahead of 'Eyes...'!

'Along Came A Spider' seems to have entered the UK album chart at #31! This is a huge improvement over the last two albums. 'Dirty Diamonds' got to 89, while 'Eyes..' only reached 112.

A new review of the album has appeared at AZCentral.

411Mania has a very brief Alice article.

Not to be outdone, Pollstar is now listing the following shows:
Mon 09/01/08 Miami, OK, Buffalo Run Casino
Tue 09/09/08 Tucson, AZ,  Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheatre

AC.com is now listing a show in Atlantic City on November 1st at the House Of Blues.

Ticketmaster is listing a show in Verona, NY at Turning Stone Casino for October 28th. Tickets go on sale on August 8th. Also, on sale today are tickets for the Halloween show at Foxwoods.

Channel Bee has a short appearance of Alice at the Classic Rock Awards announcement. Click here and select clip 7.

The Black Hills Pioneer has a short interview with Alice.

Neal Smith will be on WRAT 95.9 this Sunday. The programme is 'Electric Ballroom' and it runs from 10pm to midnight. You can listen here.

AZ Central has a small article with a couple of over-used quotes. The Statesman also has a small mention.

Album reviews: IGN, MFG, Hellflavored, Music Set, Teeth Of The Divine, Fast Forward Weekly, The Right To Rock, Sunderland Echo.

Southampton Daily Echo:
Southampton Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted during a recent Alice Cooper concert at Southampton Guildhall. The 48-year-old man got into a dispute with another concert-goer and during the scuffle that broke out he was punched several times in the face. He received facial injuries including a fractured eye socket.
The two men involved were sitting in the balcony area watching the concert on July 25th at about 9pm when the dispute started. Police are now appealing for anyone who saw the incident to contact them. One of the men involved was bare chested at the time and had earlier removed his artificial leg.
Anyone who saw what happened is asked to contact PC Paul Baker at Southampton Central Police Station on 0845 045 45 45 or call Crimestoppers, the charity, anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Police confirmed a 45-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident but has since been released on bail until August 6 while enquiries continue.
STUK urges anyone who witnessed this to call and help out the police.

According to LiveNation and the venue itself the Los Angeles show announced on Pollstar a couple of days ago is already cancelled. No further info.

The Great Falls Tribune has a short interview with Alice.

Album reviews: UGO, STUK, Ohio Post

Eagle 99.5 are running a competition to "guess what's in Alice Cooper's pants!" The winner will get the cash in his pockets, his autographed pants, two show tickets and get to meet Alice as well.

The Source Weekly has a slightly odd article comparing Alice to some country act called Brooks and Dunn, as both are playing central Oregon soon.

CD Reviews: The Post (Ohio), Ventura County Star

Two new US show dates have turned up on Pollstar. They are:
Thu 4th September Los Angeles, CA, The Wiltern
Sat 25th October Boston, MA, Orpheum

New album reviews: The Courant, UWeekly, Milwaukee Journal,

Alice's appearance on Sky News this weekend is now up on YouTube here although it's not great quality.

The Missoulian has a short peice about Alice with quotes.

More album reviews at Yahoo News, The Desert Sun, The Daily Iowan, PitRiff, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

'Nights With Alice Cooper' has launched a new Blog page here to mark the US release of the album today.

Metal Hammer have a short interview with Alice at the Classic Rock announcement.

ContactMusic have a short quote from Alice (source not mentioned) on how the film Barbarella influenced the Alice Cooper character. Showbizspy has a similar short uncredited story, this one about Alice not wanting plastic surgury.

Reviews today come from The National Post, The Washington Times, The Daily Texan, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Trades.

Alice Cooper will be on the cover of the next issue of 'Powerplay' magazine which should be hitting the newstands in the UK from today.

There are around 600 new photos from the UK shows up now in the photos section.

Sky News has a short interview clip with Alice online here. They aired a longer segment I believe yesterday.

The Guardian reviews the London show here. The 'Mail On Sunday' yesterday had a one page article (sorry this is rather too late) in one of it's suppliment magazines.

STV.tv have some Alice quotes, although they don't state where they got them from.

The New York Post has an Interview with Alice. Bild.de in Germany also has an interview.
(Thanks Jens)

Freep.com has a review.

There's an BBC audio clip from the Simon Mayo radio show up on YouTube with Alice talking about being in Bond or Doctor Who. The full interview is actually available at the shows site.

We've been away the the last couple of days catching the UK shows so here's quick round up of the stories that have arrived. Many stories are simply repeats of others so I won't list everything.

ITunes now has three bonus tracks to go with 'Along Came A Spider'. They are 'Shadow Of Yourself', 'I'll Still Be There' and 'Salvation (Unplugged with string section)'. You can buy each song individually by clicking on the song titles above, or you can buy the album on iTunes here.

Alice will be, or has already been, on the following:
- Virgin Classic Rock Radio - "The Leona Wright Show" on 25 July
- Virgin Classic Rock Radio - "The Leona Wright Show" on 27 July (may be a repeat of the above). Repeated also on 1 and 3 August
- "Transmission" - Channel Four, 1 August.

Interviews: BBC News Video, Whitefish Pilot, Goldmine, The Bulletin, Loose Women,

Album reviews: Expressen, Chicago Daily Herald, Orlando Weekly, Virginmedia, Manchester Evening News, Miami Herald, Guardian, Metal Temple, Crackerjack, Daily Express

London Show Review: Telegraph,

Southampton Revire: Hampshire Chronicle

Photos: Alice at the Classic Rock Announcements, Kalingrad,

Small stories: ContactMusic, Daily Star, NME, This Is Hull 1, This Is Hull 2, HLN.be, Billboard, AZCentral,

The vinyl version of 'Along Came A Spider' seems to have been delayed, at least in the UK, for a couple of weeks. All Amazon orders will still be valid of course and it will be shipped as soon as it arrives there.

The forth 'Along Came A Spider' Piggy D promo is now online. See it below.

Alice was in London today doing promotional duties for the new album. He also appeared at the launch of this years Classic Rock Awards at which he read out the nominees to the gathered press.
He was on "Simon Mayo" today (which you can hear at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cm7bw) and will be on "Sunday Live With Adam Boulton" on Sky News, 27 July. More to come.

Alice has been announced to play August 26th at Lakewood Civic Auditorium, OH. Reserved seat tickets are $45 and $32.50 and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Some new photos have turned up at Mats Ragnarsson's site here in the portfolio.

New album reviews can be seen at Skopbeen,

In Scandinavian news there's a show review at ST.NU. Folkbladet has an article too. There's album reviews here, here and here.

SPV have launched a new webpage to promote the new album here. There's details about the album and packaging, a pinball game, a competition, and the trailer videos from YouTube.

Alice is due to be on the following programs while in the UK:
- "The One Show" - BBC One - 19:00 - 19:30 - 23 July
-  BBC Six Music (radio) - "The George Lamb Show" - 23 July
-  BBC Radio Two - "The Steve Wright Show" - 24 July
- "Loose Women" - ITV1 - 12:30 - 1:30 - 24 July
- Planet Rock Radio - date to be confirmed
- Virgin Classic Rock Radio - date to be confirmed
- Sky News - date to be confirmed
- Channelbee - date to be confirmed.

Alice is listed as appearing on ITV's "Loose Women" chat show on Thursday at 12.30pm.

There's a new interview in German at Sueddeutsche.de.

Sr.se has a short piece including some audio which sounds like it's from a press conference.

Contactmusic have been raiding the papers from the weekend and have picked up on a few things here and here.

ST.nu has a pic and short article about the Kilafors show.

More new stuff already today. We have new photos of the Osnabruck show in the photo section courtesy of Jens in Berlin, and The People has a short interview with Alice online and possibly in their print edition as well.
UPDATE: Just got The People. Has a cool two page centerspread and a competition to win London tickets.

New review at HardRockHouse here.

The Times Online has an article about Alice which will apparently be in tomorrows print edition of the Sunday Times.

New reviews include Metal Invader (although it's down as I write), The Metal Minute, ST.NU (in Swedish) and the Sun review is now online.

SVT.se have two videos. The first is a short interview with some clips, the second a longer version without the footage.

Allehanda.se has pics of Alice playing golf.

Yesterdays' Sun UK newspaper had a short but relatively positive review of the new album.
(Thanks Lee)

The new issue of Classic Rock magazine has a full page back cover advert for the forthcoming new album and also a two page review.

Allehanda.se has a review and pics from the Örnsköldsvik show here.
(Thanks Goran)

Every track from 'Along Came A Spider' is now available to hear via the official Alice Cooper MySpace page.

You can check out some photos of Wednesday's Denmark show in the photos section courtesy of Mikkel Andersen.

Allehanda.se has a couple of pics of Alice arriving in Sweden.

Blogcritics has a review of the new album here.

Aftonbladet have picked up on yesterday's story about Alice's custom golf clubs and have a pic here. There's another article at SR.se suggesting ticket sales for the Swedish show haven't been that great this time. DN.se has a golf related article,.and according to ST.nu the Kilafors show where Alice is performing on July 19th will be filmed for the Swedish Television who will do a documentary about the event including interviews with the artists.

AliceCooper.com has finally had the long awaited redesign and it was certainly worth the wait. It all looks very impressive with a cool opening video promoting the album. There's also some new promo pics and wallpapers amongst other stuff.

'I Am The Spider' has been added to the official Alice Cooper Myspace page.

Aftenpostin in Norway have a video of Alice receiving a custom painted golf club.
(Thanks Vidar)

ST.NU are running a competition to meet Alice. All the info is here.

Keri Kelli is featured on the new LA Guns live CD  'Hellraisers Ball' (on Secret Records). It was recorded on April 8th, 2003 at Penningtons in Bradford. It features Keri and Faster Pussycat's Brent Muscat on guitars. The CD is the companion piece to a live DVD of the same name. The CD's tracklisting is as follows: 1. Over The Edge, 2. Kiss My Love Goodbye, 3. Never Enough, 4. Sex Action, 5. Revolution, 6. Long Time Dead, 7. Beautiful, 8. Hellraisers Ball, 9. Don't Look At Me That Way, 10. One More Reason, 11. Electric Gypsy, 12. Ballad Of Jayne, 13. Rip And Tear.

The August issue of Guitar Player magazine has a feature on Eric Dover and his Sextus project.

Tex Wagners' MySpace page has an interesting review of the 'Love It To Death' album in the left-hand side bar.

Greg Hampton, co-producer, writer and musician on the new Alice Cooper album 'Along Came A Spider' kindly agreed to chat to STUK about the making of the album and you can now read the results here. Greg talks about working with Alice, how the songs came together and all sorts of other things. There's also some exclusive newsbites in there, including the news that there will be a special iTunes version of the album featuring bonus tracks! And check out Greg's T-shirt. Every home should have one! 
Thanks to Greg for taking the time to chat with us.

'Toaster' in Germany has a review of the Osnabruck show along with some photos here.

There are a couple of changes to the German tour dates. The Munich and Hamburg have exchanged dates with each other meaning the Hamburg show is now November 18th while the Munich show is November 26th. Also the Nurnberg show has been moved to Bayreuth at the Oberfrabkenhalle.

Two visitors to the festival in Kvinesdal, Norway which was headlined by Alice last night, died due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, police from the southern Norwegian city of Agder reported Saturday. According to the report, six further people had to be hospitalized, three of whom in a life threatening condition. All the victims were found unconscious in a bus. The three-day festival was temporarily delayed because of the accident. Police identified a fire on the bus as the probable cause of the tragedy.
(Monsters and Critics, BBC News)

'30 Days Out' has the first review we've seen of the new album 'Along Came A Spider'.

The news that the Hammond show was canceled appears to be incorrect info from the venue. As far as Alice Cooper management are concerned it's still happening. Tickets go on sale July 19th.

The new issue of Itallian magazine 'Hard Rock' has an Alice Cooper cover and story as well as a pull out poster. You can get more info and order it here. The magazine has it's own site here but doesn't list the new issue yet.

The July 21st issue of 'The National Enquirer' has an article on movie legend Raquel Welch that reports that "the sex symbol has just signed a deal to write her memoir" titled "Secrets of Timeless Appeal". The article then goes on to say "The memoir, set to be released next year, is going to be one of the hottest kiss-and-tells ever written, publishing insiders say - with details about her relationships with Robert Evans, Warren Beatty, Sean Connery, Richard Burton and Alice Cooper, as well as a few surprises!"
(Thanks Susie)

More photos today from the first two shows on the tour. Rockxpress have some photos from the Bulgarian show, while here at STUK we have some cool pics from the Swiss show (with the Guillotine instead of the gallows due to stage size constraints) in the photos section.

There's another new Promo appeared for the new album. You can check it out here.

Today's ContactMusic story, that Alice has been telling for some years, is how he inspired a line in the Doors song 'Roadhouse Blues'. This is due to a forthcoming Radio special on the Doors that will air on July 27th on Planet Rock. Uncut magazine has a slightly longer version of the story as well.

Antimusic have added an extensive interview with Neal Smith about his new 'Killsmith' album at their site which is well worth a read. Check it out here.

Photos are appearing from last nights show in Bulgaria, the opening night of the new tour. Pics are here and here with a short write up here in Bulgarian(?).

The Sun and NME have picked up on the ContactMusic story mentioned yesterday.

SPV have posted 30 second clips of every track from 'Along Came A Spider' on their site here. They also have the first promo video (as seen below) on the same page.

'Golf World' has an article about a new sponser for the Alice Cooper Golf Tournament, 'Loudmouth Golf'. ICity.se also has a golf related article, but this one is centered around Ryan Roxie! They also say they will have an interview with Ryan in the next issue.

Planet Rock is running a competition to win tickets for the Southampton show. It runs until July 20th and you can enter here.

ContactMusics latest "story" says Alice MAY work with The Mighty Boosh. Of course this is based on nothing more then a couple of comments, like their recent sunday school "revelation",  from the Uncut interview last month.

Alice Cooper has been announced as headlining the 'Rock The Bayou' festival on August 31st on the Rock The Bayou Grounds, located between Kirby Drive and Fannin Avenue, directly south of Loop 610 in Houston, Texas. Also on the bill are Warrent, Yngwie Malmsteen, Slaughter, Dangerous Toys, Pretty Boy Floyd and Black 'N Blue.

To the left you can see what appears to be the alternative cover for the vinyl edition of 'Along Came A Spider' as shown on the official MySpace page. You can pre-order this edition now on AmazonUS and AmazonUK.

More cool promo lmages have been released as well.

GuitarSite.com has a new interview with 'Along Came A Spider' producer Greg Hampton during which Greg discusses his career and the new Alice album.
With 'Vengeance Is Mine' now available to hear, Greg posted this through on the making of the song:
"Alice kept telling me he had these lyrics for something he wanted to call "Vengeance is mine". The music for was pretty much completely finished one morning over coffee, with my little hand help recorder.... The next day Eric came up and it was  just me and Eric at my place for the most part - we finished the entire backing track. The wahwah leads in the verses I was just goofing around - but I kept it! ...then  I took the track up to Danny's the next day. Alice loved it ...Danny added the little "Iron-man" type riff in the middle breakdown bit - we cut Alice's vocals the same day ...  and SLASH added some extra screaming lead guitars a few weeks later at my buddies studio in Nth Hollywood... I think we had about 16 hours total into the entire song...including ALICE'S vocals  -and the final mix...."

Alice appeared on the cover of "Rock" magazine in Germany recently. More info (In German) here.
(Thanks Devon)

The 'Remember The Coop Message Board' again has free tickets available to see the Big Ball Stars this Saturday at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. The performance will feature Keri Kelli, Chuck Garric and Tommy Clufetos! If you want tickets just email Barbara. They also have some photos from a previous show here.

A reminder for all those not going to see Alice in Southampton that Damon Johnson and Whiskey Falls are playing at the Borderline in central London on July 25th. Tickets are still available.

Ryan Roxie's Happypill have a new URL for their official merchandise here.

Alice Cooper and Whitesnake will be playing the following shows at the end of the year:
18th November München, Olympiahalle
20th November Hannover, AWD-Halle
21th November Essen, Grugahalle
22nd November Nürnberg, Arena
25th November Erfurt, Messehalle
26th November Hamburg, Sporthalle
28th November Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle
29th November Stuttgart, Porsche-Arena
1st December Berlin, Max-Schmeling-Halle
(Thanks Tomasz)

A sneak preview of the new "Along Came A Spider' album is now up on Alicecooper.com and the official MySpace page! The song is 'Vengence Is Mine'.

There's a small Alice mention on MSN.com.

Last months Uncut Magazine also had a short piece about Alice and Grocho Marx with a pic.
(Thanks Leighton)

Antimusic is running a series of articles about Neal Smith and his Killsmith album. The first part is here with links to the next few articles.

AmazonUS is now listing the double vinyl version of 'Along Came A Spider' for pre-order here.

Sheryl and Sonora Cooper joined Alice on stage for 'No More Mr Nice Guy' at the opening of the Mala Wailea restaurant on Thursday. You can see a pic here. And keeping it in the family, you can see a short clip of Alice on stage with Dash Cooper and Runaway Phoenix recently at YouTube.

Calico Cooper will feature in 'Sirens of Cinema' magazine at the end of June with pics by STUK's own Bill Crowe!  you can order a copy here.

The Dimma CD release party went great! Dimma performed songs off both the oirginal CD and their new CD before Dennis Dunaway joined them for 'Dimma', 'Under My Wheels', 'I'm Eighteen', 'Billion Dollar Babies'. 'Dead Babies', 'Halo Of Flies' and an encore of 'School's Out'. Check out Dimma videos on YouTube.

If any one has a spare seated ticket they don't need for the Southampton, UK show could they email me? We have a disabled fan in need of a seat. Thanks!

According to Maui News Alice will be in Hawaii on June 19th at the opening of a new restaurant called 'Mala Wailea' located at the Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Maui. Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac will also be there and tickets are still available for the event. Why is Alice there? Because 'Mala Wailea' is co-owned by Shep Gordon.

Keri Kelli will be in the KNAC studios today at 3.30pm (Pacific)along with 'Saints Of The Underground' singer Janie Lane. You can listen in online here.

Blabbermouth report that Ryan Roxie is to appear on the forthcoming "Kiss My Ankh: A Tribute To Vinnie Vincent". Along with Ryan,  former Adler's Appetite vocalist Sheldon Tarsha, former Altaria bassist Marko Pukkila and current White Lion drummer Troy Patrick Farrell have collaborated on a new recording of the VIinnie Vincent Invasion ballad "That Time of Year". The original was the lead single  from the second Vinnie Vincent Invasion album "All Systems Go".  A 45-second sample of the new version is now available at the official  MySpace page.

In a change from all the recent 'Along Came A Spider' news today we have some photos of Dennis Dunaway, with Al Bouchard and American Dog, on stage in Paris last night courtesy of Patrick Brzezinski. Click here to go straight to the gallery. We also have some fantastic archive photos of Alice live in 1988 in Arnhem, Netherlands courtesy of Marcel Jas. Click here to check them out.

RememberTheCoop has a few photos of Keri and Chuck with the Big Ball Stars the other night.
(Thanks Barb)

If you check out this video you'll spot Mr Dennis Dunaway hanging out at a fashion party.

KFIX are running a poll (which is syndicated to other sites) asking which album out of a selection you are most waiting for. The answer to that one should be obvious.

UPDATED:
More US dates have appeared on a press release including conformation of the much rumoured Halloween show at Foxwoods, CT. The new dates are as follows:

5th August - Bismarck, ND - Civic Center Arena
7th August - St Louis, MO - The Pageant
9th August - Sparta, WI - Fort McCoy Army Base (With Scorpions)
12th August - Casper, WY - Events Center
22nd August - Indianapolis, IN - White River State Park
24th August - Columbus, OH - Lifestyles Comunity Pavillion
31st October - Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand at Foxwoods

AmazonUS are now taking pre-orders for the new Alice Cooper album 'Along Came A Spider'. Click here to order yours now.

Record Label SPV have posted the following publicity announcement on their MySPace page which includes what is presumably the final tracklisting:

"There are only a handful of rock artists that have proven to be as enduring and influential as Alice Cooper has over the years. Name just about any hard rock artist, and they’ve probably borrowed a thing or two from Alice. And on his latest studio recording, ‘Along Came A Spider’ (issued via SPV Records on July 29), Alice has returned with a concept album with a sinister streak.

‘A dark and menacing album for dark and menacing times’ is perhaps the most fitting description for Alice’s 25th studio album overall, as a chilling conceptual thread runs through the songs, which are told through the voice of a serial killer named Spider - one that Alice describes as “an arachnophobic psychopath” (in the song “Catch Me If You Can”). Alice, the master storyteller, weaves a web of danger, intrigue and death that rivals his best work.

Co-produced by Danny Saber, Greg Hampton and Alice himself, ‘Along Came A Spider’ manages to marry both vintage and modern day Alice. As theatrical as ever, the album is a sonic combination of familiar Alice musical elements from albums as diverse as ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ and ‘Brutal Planet,' with the storytelling of "Welcome To My Nightmare," capturing the historic dark side of Alice in peak form, an instantly recognizable presence that will be welcomed by his fans. Joining Alice on the album are members of his touring band - longtime Alice drummer Eric Singer, bassist Chuck Garric, and guitarists Keri Kelli and Jason Hook, with additional contributions from others, including Saber, Hampton, and renowned backing vocalist Bernard Fowler.

Saber and Hampton co-wrote several of the album's songs with Alice, while others were collaborations with Alice's band members. Danny Saber, best known for his role as member and producer of Black Grape, has also worked with many other artists, including the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, and David Bowie, while Greg Hampton's been working on a new album project teaming up Buckethead and Bootsy Collins.

Who else but Alice Cooper, with ‘Along Came A Spider,' would create a "love story" about a serial killer named Spider? His trademark is wrapping his victims in silk, and his victims are specifically chosen to feed his hunger to kill. But, upon meeting his (possibly) last victim, he falls in love with her and cannot kill to complete his plan. That could be his demise.

Though it is often said about artists with as rich a history as Alice that their newest albums capture the essence of their greatest work, it may honestly be proposed that ‘Along Came A Spider’ does exactly that. It's got hard rock with hooks, an Alice trademark (“Vengeance is Mine,” “I Know Where You Live”), classic balladry, another Alice trademark (“Killed by Love,” “Salvation”), and always with an overtone of evil, yet another Alice tradmark. Throughout the album, Alice BECOMES Spider, telling the story of a cold-blooded killer to life vocally, as if this were the soundtrack to an as-yet unmade horror film.

Ozzy Osbourne lends some harmonica work on a track he co-wrote, “Wake the Dead," and Slash lends some guitar style to "Vengeance Is Mine."

Before such theatrical rockers as David Bowie, the New York Dolls, Kiss, Slipknot, Rob Zombie, and Marilyn Manson, there was Alice Cooper. The original Alice Cooper group quickly became despised by adults and authority figures, while being idolized by teens and rock fans everywhere, on the strength of a succession of all-time classic albums ('Love It to Death,’ ‘Killer,’ ‘School’s Out,’ ‘Billion Dollar Babies,’ etc.) and anthems (“I’m Eighteen,” “Under My Wheels,” “School’s Out,” "Elected," “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” etc.). Alice had continued success as a solo artist, releasing successful albums like ‘Welcome To My Nightmare' and 'Trash,' featuring classic hits such as "Only Women Bleed," "I Never Cry," and "Poison." All one has to do is look at the many other artists that have covered Alice to understand how far reaching his influence is - the list is endless -- or just keep in mind that Johnny Rotten auditioned for the Sex Pistols to the tune of "I'm Eighteen.

Track Listing:
1. Prologue/I Know Where You Live
2. Vengeance Is Mine
3. Wake The Dead
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
6. Wrapped In Silk
7. Killed By Love
8. Hungry
9. The One That Got Away
10. Salvation
11. I Am The Spider/Epilogue

Alice has been announced as playing The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on August 8th. Tickets go on sale June 11th at noon for people who have signed up to their email list here where they also have a cool Alice site promoting the show.
(Thanks Cindy)

AmazonUK is now listing the new Alice Cooper album 'Along Came A Spider'  for preorder. You can pre-order the CD here and they also list a Vinyl version for pre-order here. US links will doubtless be coming shortly.
Remember, ordering via these links helps support STUK and keep the site going. Thanks!

'...Spider' co-producer Greg Hampton has another project on the way. He features on the new album by 'Science Faxtion' as singer and guitarist. They're a band put together with bass legend Bootsy Collins and ex-Guns And Roses guitarist and solo act Buckethead. Called 'Living on Another Frequency’ the album also features drummer Brain from Primus and is released August 5th via Mascot Records.

According to Uncut Magazine and Idolator both Ozzy Osbourne and Slash guest on the new album 'Along Came A Spider'.  Ozzy plays harmonica on a track he co-wrote ("(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side") with Alice while and Slash plays guitar.
In other details the photographer for the new album was Gabrielle Geiselman with Piggy D (Rob Zombie/Wednesday13) the art work on the new Album. (He also makes most the stage clothing for the band).
(Thanks Konstantinos, Ryan)

Both AmazonUK and AmazonUS now have the reissues of 'Pretties For You' and 'Easy Action' up for preorder. The US versions are release June 10th while in the UK they seem to be coming the out the same day as the new album (July 28th).  Click the links below to pre-order:
'Pretties For You' - AmazonUK  AmazonUS
'Easy Action' - AmazonUK   AmazonUS

There's a new interview with Ryan Roxie up on Metal Express Radio.

Here it is. The official announcement we've been waiting for.
'Along Came A Spider' release dates, through SPV/Steamhammer will be the following: 
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: July 25th
Rest of Europe: July 28th
North America: July 29th
The CD was co-produced by Greg Hampton and Danny Saber in Los Angeles. Alice recently told Billboard.biz that his forthcoming LP is "a real 'Alice' album. Conceptually, it's going to be pretty interesting." Cooper wouldn't reveal too many details, but said the album is based on a fictional serial killer named Spider, who wraps his victims in a silk web. "Every song is sort of a letter to the police," he explains. "They think they're investigating it from the outside, but he's actually woven them into the whole thing."

"Along Came A Spider" track listing (in alphabetical order):

01. Catch Me
02. Hungry
03. I Am The Spider
04. I Know Where You Live
05. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
06. Killed By Love
07. Salvation
08. The One That Got Away
09. Vengeance Is Mine
10. Wake The Dead
11. Wrapped In Silk

Rock legend Alice Cooper has revealed the tracklisting for his new album "Along Came A Spider". The album is set for release on July 29th in North America. The track listing for "Along Came A Spider" is as follows:
'Catch Me', 'Hungry', 'I Am The Spider', 'I Know Where You Live', '(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side', 'Killed By Love', 'Salvation', 'The One That Got Away', 'Vengeance Is Mine', 'Wake The Dead', 'Wrapped In Silk'.
(Courtesy of various sites including Blabbermouth, MetalSludge,and MetalUnderground).

Alice was interviewed on "Big John" 98.8 a few days ago and during the brief chat mentioned both the new album and the fact Rhino are remastering the first two albums, 'Pretties For You' and 'Easy Action' for forthcoming release. It's in 4 short parts starting here.

MyPark magazine has a short chat with Alice about his appearance on the Muppet Show which is now out on DVD in the US.

This weeks NME has a 2 page article on Alice entitled “What Rock 'n' Roll Has Taught Me”
(Thanks Rob)

The 'On Sale' date for the Genesee Theater show on August 30th  has been postponed,  but the show is still happening.
(Thanks NSP)

Alice and Shep gordon shot some footage at Cooperstown yesterday firstly for a documentary about a now defunct nightclub in New York City (CBGB's?) and a second for a show on the Travel channel with Anthony Bourdain. PsychoPat has some pics. (Thanks PsychoPat)

Guitarist Keri Kelli will discuss his 'Saints Of The Underground' project on this week's (May 30) edition of "The Metal File" program on Montreal's CHOM-FM. "The Metal File" can be heard live from 12 midnight to 1 a.m. Friday nights on CHOM-FM. It is also available for listening via the Internet at www.chom.com.
(Thanks Blabbermouth)

Alice will play Saturday August 30th in Waukegan, IL at the Genesee Theatre. Tickets go on sale May 30th at noon.
(Thanks Sammy)

ContactMusic yet again take a comment from another source out of its context and make a non-story out of it. At least they have some pics.

WZLX have posted their Alice interview from last week on their site. There's also photos and a page with the Youtube videos mentioned a few days ago.

The third installment of the Happypill video blog is now up on Youtube.

There's a small mention of Alice appearting at the 'WZLX's benefit tournement for Shriners Hospital for Children' on May 23rd at Boston.com. There's also a three part video up at YouTube.

Pentagraph.com has an article announcing Alice playing on August 21st  in Bloomington at the U.S. Cellular Coliseum. Tickets are priced at $29.50 and $59.50, and go on sale at 10 a.m. May 30th.

Keri Kelli and Chuck Garric will be playing with the "Big Ball Stars" in Hollywood on June 7th. You can get free tickets courtesy of the 'Remember the Coop' board if you email Barb at cookiegirl312@msn.com. Be quick as there are limited free tickets available.

Alice is to be interviewed for a forthcoming documentary film on Lemmy of Motorhead. More info at www.lemmymovie.com.

Episode #2 of the Happypill 'Countdown to Kiss' video plog is now up on Youtube.

Many people may have noticed that the official website for 'Nights With Alice Cooper', has been offline for a few days.  This was due to an unexpected failure with the site's server. The site is apparently moving (or already has moved) to better, faster, and more dependable servers which hopefully will resolve most, if not all, the many problems the website and its forum had periodically, mainly slow or no connection to the site.

UNCUT magazine are interviewing Alice soon for their 'An Audience With...' feature.  And they're after your questions!
So, is  there anything you've always wanted to ask the undisputed king of shock rock..?
What's his golf handicap these days? What was it like being a member of the Hollywood Vampires, along with Ringo, Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson? And just how much would a Billion Dollar Baby cost today, taking into account inflation and the current credit crunch?
The more interesting, funny and quirky will be put to Alice, and his answers will appear in a forthcoming edition of UNCUT.
Send your questions by Monday, May 26 to uncutaudiencewith@ipcmedia.com

A slideshow and some backstage footage of Alice hosting the 'Very Bad Movie Nights' on May 10th and 17th can be seen here.
(Thanks PsychoPat)

Two new shows have just been announced. They are:
August 1st Kalispell, Montana Raceway Park
August 27th Detroit, Michigan State Fair

Happypill (featuring Ryan Roxie) have a video blog online counting down to their big show with Kiss. The first installment is up now on youtube.
The band also have their second single, the excellent "36 Hours" available as a 'conscience free' download. As with their first single you can download the song free, and if you like it you can pay what you think it's worth. You can still by the real CD as well, which features both singles plus two remixes. All the info you need is here.
And if that isn`t enough Roxie for one day, we also have a new/old previously unpublished Roxie interview from waaaay back in 1996 courtesy of Alex Richter. In it Roxie talks about his first tour with Alice and how he joined the band among other things. Check it out here.

Guitarist Jason Hook has posted the following message about what he's been up to:
"Well we're half way through May and progress (on his new solo record) is slow.... I have finished three more songs (2 instrumentals and one cover). I'm trying to get everything finished before we leave on tour in July. New titles are "Bitterness, Hatred and Violence" and "Serial Kill-Her" . Overall, I would say this record is a lot darker than 'Safety Dunce'. I also recorded a version of "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel but done METAL style. It's very different from the original and will probably include a guest vocal."
MonkeyHead is an original project spawned by Jason Hook and singer Simon Davies. Their album was originally released in 2001 as a Japanese import but is now available from jasonhook.net as a digital download. click here to see more.

You can check out video of Alice performing 'No More Mr Nice Guy' at the Musicares ceremony on Youtube here.

You can see video of Alice being revealed as the 'Jackalope' (see news story below) here.

The Michael Bruce Group will be playing at 'Club Red' in Tempe, AZ on May 31st.

Ticketmaster is listing a new show for August 10th in Sioux City IA at the Orpheum Theatre. Tickets on sale 22nd May.

Last night on 'Nights With Alice Cooper' Alice spoke about the forthcoming album 'Along Came A Spider' and announced the first song title to be made public. He mentioned that it's the story of 'Spider', a serial killer who must kill eight victims. He takes four left legs and four right legs to build a spider. Then he encounters a femme fatale, the eighth intended victim, and falls in love, at which point the song 'Killed By Love' comes into play. 
(Thanks ACAS27)

A couple more short clips of Alice interviewed at the Musicares awards have turned up on YouTube here and here.
(Thanks Des)

There's an interview with Ryan Roxie in the latest issue of Swedish guitar magazine "Fuzz".
(Thanks Swinger)

On May 15th, at 6:00 PM, PST (2am UK time), Damon Johnson and Whiskey Falls will be performing the first global, live interactive show of their career at DeepRockDrive.com.  The show is completely interactive.  You can speak to the band in “real time”, change camera angles, and even vote on which songs they play and in what order.  You are in control of the experience.  So, if you want to hear a song, just let them know by voting and they will play it for you.  Head over to DeepRockDrive.com right now and grab a ticket, because there are only a limited number available.

LA.com and Spinner have short articles about the Musicares Awards show. Virginmedia has a short piece with quotes from the same night.

Lastly at DigitalSpy, some band called 'The Zutons' claim Alice blocked up their toilet?!? Of course it wasn't Alice, but apparently a band friend in a mask.

On June 16th, Dennis Dunaway will sit in with 'Dimma' at their CD
release party in Reykjavik, Iceland. They will play Cooper tunes including "Halo of Flies" and songs from the forthcoming new Dimma CD entitled 'Stigmata', including "Desert Nightwish" which features Dennis and is based around a bass riff that Dennis wrote around the time of 'Killer' but was never finished.

Photos are appearing from last nights Musicares ceremony in L.A. where Alice, accompanied by Sheryl and Calico, received the 'Stevie Ray Vaughan award'. ChinaNow has pics of Alice arriving, and on stage with Slash. Wireimage, FilmMagic, and GettyImage.
Abaca also have pics from the recent German TV appearance, video of which you can see here. Alice performed 'No More Mr Nice Guy', 'Lost In America', 'Under My Wheels', 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'School's Out' with Slash guesting on the last song.

ESPN has a new interview with Alice about sports.

There's a new audio interview with guitarist Keri Kelli up here talking about his new band 'Saints Of The Underground' who's new album is out now.

This week on Channel 3 Good Morning Arizona has taken a roadtrip in which they encounter a 'Jackalope' (which appears to be a guy dressed up in a rabbit suit?!?). There is also a contest to win an Itouch Ipod by guessing who's in the suit. Several clues were given away each day last week. 
1. This local celebrity ran track at Cortez High School.
2. This famous person had an article in the school newspaper
entitled."Get out of my hair".
3. This Musician's first bands were "The Earwigs" "The Nazz" and "The Spiders".
And the possible choices were: Royal Norman, Brandon Webb, Shaquille O'Neal, Alice Cooper, Leslie Nielsen, Steve Nash, Eric Byrnes, Chris Parker.
Obviously the answer isn't too hard for anyone reading this site!
Tomorrow (Friday May 9th) they will unveil the Jackalope and pick the winner of the Itouch. More info here, which also has a short video advertising the event and a pic of the 'Jackalope'.
(Thanks PsychoPat)

 On Saturdays, May 10th and 17th Alice will be the guest host on   KTTU Channel 18 (USA), introducing two really bad movies: 'The Killer Shrews' (May 10th) and 'Attack of the Giant Leeches' (May 17th). More info about this can be found at Tuscon Weekly.

According to a post on the official Alice Cooper MySpace page Alice will be playing July 21st in Kaliningrad, Russia at the Baltiskij Stadium.

There is apparently a TV advert running in the Vancover area that says Alice will be playing both September 18th AND 19th at the Center For Performing Arts. No other info has turned up to confirm this.
(Thanks David)

Alice's appearance on the German TV 'Chart Show' is now up on YouTube (Tommy Clufetos was standing in for Eric Singer). He also appeared on 'RTL'.
While on YouTube check out this previous unshown clip of Alice Cooper performing 'The Ballad Of Dwight Fry' on German show Beat Club in 1971. It recently showed up on a Swiss TV show "Vinyl" but only this 90 second part was shown. There's also a second short interview from the NME awards.

On May 5th Alice was back home in Phoenix for the annual golf tournement where he took the stage with Runaway Phoenix (Dash's band) to perform 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', 'Eighteen', 'Be My Lover', 'Lost in America' and 'School's Out' (with Damon Johnson joining them). PsychoPat has some pics.

An update on the ticketing situation for the Redmond Show. According to the promotors " the concert will be "free" with paid fair admission, however you must have a pass to allow you into the concert. Those free passes are distributed through remote locations that The Twins 98.3 (radio station) set up starting Memorial Weekend until fair starts July 30. If you know someone in the area here that could drive to one of the remote broadcasts and pick up your pass that is the way to do it. The station will not give away passes out the door or through mail."
(Thanks Jean)

AZ Central has an article about the forthcoming Alice Cooper Golf Tournament here.

Wayne Kramer (MC5), Duff McKagan (Velvet Revolver) and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) have been added to the list of performers at the fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert honoring Alice Cooper and Slash.

'All You Need Is Love', The seventies music documentary which features early footage of Alice Cooper, is released by Voiceprint on
Monday (a week later in the USA). The 5 disc set can be ordered from AmazonUK and AmazonUS.

Activision have released an online version of their hit game 'Guitar Hero' and it features 'School's Out' as one of the three songs you can try and play. Controled via your keyboard you can play it below!

Alice will appear on German TV's 'Chart Show' on RTL friday night 9:15 pm. A commercial last night said that Alice will be live in the studio. (Thanks Gerhard)

Happypill will be playing their biggest show to date supporting KISS (with Eric Singer of course) in Stockholm on Friday 30th May at the Stockholm Stadium. You can still check out the new happypill video below.

Guitarist Steve Hunter has released a new solo album entitled 'Hymns for Guitar'. The album was produced by Bob Ezrin. Hymns for Guitar’ is Steve’s acoustic guitar arrangements of some of his favorite old American hymns. Many of these great melodies were written in the mid 1800s. “When I was a very little boy....maybe 4 or 5 years old...my grandmother would occasionally take me to Sunday church with her. I always enjoyed the sound of people gently and quietly singing those beautiful old hymns. My main goal was to try to recreate the warm, peaceful sound with acoustic guitars that I had heard as a boy in church”. The album can be purchased at Guitar Nine and at CD Baby! Sound clips are available at both sites.

Tickets are on sale for a show on 30th October at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey.

Getreadytorock.com has a new interview with Neal Smith and a review of his new KillSmith album.

Alice's interview with Jon Anderson of Yes has been posted to the NWAC site. You can listen to it here.

A couple of Alice mentions in the press to relate. The first is in the Essex Gazette and relates to songwriter Jimmy Jewell and golf, while the second is rather more interesting as it is about Alice's appearance at the NME awards in the El Rey Theater in L.A. on April 23rd, where he presented the 'Best International Live Act" award, and features photos of Alice. There's also video from the event here and a couple more photos here.

There is a new range of STUK clothing now available due to endless requests over the years. Designed by our own artist extrarodinaire Dannorama based on various Alice type images you can grab yours here and wear it with pride on the forthcoming tour! The company supplying them ships worldwide.
STUK also now has a presence on 'Facebook' if you use their site. Check out the STUK group here.

A new European show has turned up for 9th July in Pratteln, Switzerland at the Z7 club. Tickets are on sale for 65.00 SFr here.

STUK has been stateside for the last week so there's a little catching up to do on the news front.

Alice has been talking about the forthcoming abum, 'Along Came A Spider' and here's what he had to say:
'..the album is based on a fictional serial killer named Spider, who wraps his victims in a silk web. "Every song is sort of a letter to the police," he explains. "They think they're investigating it from the outside, but he's actually woven them into the whole thing." Cooper has international tour dates booked from July through October. For the "Along Came A Spider Tour," which will most likely begin in 2009, Cooper says he plans to model each show after an old radio drama, like "The Shadow."  "Nobody has ever done that, in the format of a '40s radio cliffhanger kind of thing," he notes. "I want people actually playing detectives between the songs."
The album is apparently "75% done" and is currently aimed at a August release date.It's being co-produced by Greg Hampton and Danny Saber in Los Angeles.
You can read the full article here.

The Manchester Evening News has an article mentioning a golf feud between Alice and pop star Lloyd Cole.

Alice is interviewed on a new DVD called 'Radio Revolution' which you can get here. The film is a feature length documentary that investigates the international social, political and musical impact of radio stations CKLW during the 1960s and 70s.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been added to the bill at the fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert honoring Alice and Slash on May 9th, 2008, at The Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA. He will perform with Kamp Freddy (Billy Morrison, Chris Chaney, Donovan Leitch, Matt Sorum and Slash) along with Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) and Robin Zander (Cheap Trick). The evening will also feature a special performance by Blind Melon, and a very special performance by Alice and Slash.

The Dennis Dunaway Project, who are currently hard at work on new material, will be playing The Haunt in Yonkers on May 30th. A new song will be unveiled. Dennis along with Al Bouchard (of Blue Oyster Cult) will also be playing a special engagement in Paris with members of 'American Dog' on June 14th. More info here. More European appearances are hoped to be announced shortly.

Keri Kelli's new CD with 'Saints Of The Underground' is out now and can be ordered from AmazonUK and AmazonUS. The album, entitled 'Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner' also features Jani Lane (ex-Warrent) on vocals Robbie Crane (Ratt).and Bobby Blotzer (Ratt).

Jason Hook has been busy recently and is hard at work on a new solo album. Some working titles include "Domestic Violins" and "Cheers To My Sobriety". He's hoping to have ot finished in time for the Alice tour this summer. There's also a video clip of Jason working on his first album 'Safety Dunce' over on Youtube. MVD Music Video Distributors has picked up a 2 disc 'Safety Dunce' CD/Video package which should now be avaialble worldwide. You can get it from AmazonUS or AmazonUK. Jason has also signed a sponsership deal with Marshall Amplification, and there's some new merchandise available here.

An audio sample from the Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon) and Tobias Sammet (Avantasia) "Elected" cover mentioned previously is available here.

Aug 3rd Sturgis, SD Legendary Buffalo Chip 
Aug 16th Council Bluffs, IA Harrah's Casino - Stir Concert Cove 
Aug 17th Tower, MN Fortune Bay Resort Casino 
Aug 23rd Florence, IN Belterra Casino Resort 
October 26th Schenectady, NY Proctor's Theatre

Don't forget to Check out Mr. Ryan Roxie's band Happypill who will be premiering their official music video "This Year".(April 18th ) If you can't make it down to the Hard Rock Cafe in Stockholm, the video will also be shown on Youtube as part of their worldwide premiere (just do a search for Happypill) or check it out below!

Check out some footage of Dennis Dunaway performing 'Eighteen' with Earl Slick (David Bowie etc) at the launch of the Bowie tribute album they both feature on at the Brighton Bar, Long Branch, NJ. Friday, March 28, 2008.

Keri Kelli has posted the following update:
"I've added new photos from the Australian, New Zealand, and Japanese tour to kerikelli.com). Also, some dates of upcoming appearances with my brother Jani Lane, as well as Alice and Slash!
Things are progressing in regards to the new Coop CD, I've heard several tentative release dates but nothing in stone yet. The 'Saints Of The Underground' CD will be available on Tuesday, April 22nd at all your Walmart, Best Buy music retailers (to name a few) as well as online giants iTunes, Amazon, etc. This project also features Lane(Warrant), Bobby Blotzer(Ratt) and Robbie Crane(Ratt). In the merch section, I've also added a few new "Pearl" and "Glow-In-The-Dark" picks to the collection. Go check 'em out!"

'The Northern Light' has a short piece on Alice to check out.

The Southampton show date has been changed from Wednesday 23rd July to Friday 25th July. All tickets will remain valid for the new date.
This is a bit of a disaster as many fan already have Southampton tickets, AND also already have tickets to see Damon Johnson and Whiskey Falls at the Borderline in London which is now on the same night. The date has been changed on instructions of the promotor. No other reason has been given.

The new issue of Classic Rock magazine has a couple of Alice mentions including an entry (surprising low) in their list of top live acts.

The Michael Bruce Group will be playing the legendary Whisky A Go Go club in LA on May 12th at 10:30 P.M. In other MBG news Javier Garcell has become an official member of the band on lead vocals and Steve Conklin has replaced Tommy Dominick on Bass Guitar. The official Michael Bruce Music Page has started accepting friend requests at www.myspace.com/michaelbruce and new MB music will be featured there shortly.

According to TV Guide Alice will appear on the next episode of 'Final 24', a documentary show that follows the final 24 hours in the life of celebrities shown on the biography channel. This show appears to be on Keith Moon.

Chuck Garric's band 'The Druts' have their EP available now on Amazon.com as a digital download. There are five tracks, three of which appear to have been on the original release of the EP (but could be new versions?) and two new tracks. You can grab them here.

BCLocalNews.com have a short Alice article about the 'Golf Monster' book.

Alice will play Osnabruck, Germany at the Halle Gartlage on 13th July.

'Golf Monster' is due to be released in paperback form on May 27th with a new cover. You can pre-order a copy from AmazonUS here or AmazonUK here. Both links also have a pic of the new cover.

September 24th - Grand Prairie, AB Crystal Centre
September 28th - Lethbridge, AB Enmax Centre
October 4th - Thunder Bay, ON Auditorium
October 14th - Kitchener, ON Centre In The Square
October 22nd - Cornerbrook, NF Pepsi Centre

28th August - Waterfest in Oshkosh, WI

July 16th - Soenderborg, Denmark, Moelleparken
July 31st - Redmond, OR, Deschutes County Fair
September 5th, 6th and 7th - Las Vegas, NV, Orleans Hotel & Casino
October 17th - Halifax, NS, Metro Center
October 18th - St John, NB, Harbour Station
October 19th - Moncton, NB, Moncton Coliseum.

More Shows:
20th September - Vernon, BC - Vernon Multiplex
26th September - Red Dear, AB, Enmax Centrium
1st October - Regina, SK, Conexus Arts Centre
2nd October - Saskatoon, SK, TCU Place
6th October - Hamilton, ON, Hamilton Place Theatre
7th October - Barrie, ON, Barrie Molson Centre
21st October - St. Johns, NL, Mile One Centre

Roxie News: Happypill will be releasing their very first music video and have set April 18th 2008  for the "official" premiere party at Stockholm's Hard Rock Cafe. The band will be on hand for the viewing and will also be performing a very special acoustic performance at the event and be there afterwards to sign copies of their debut double single release CD. The Video will be released and aired on You Tube at the exact same date & time, so even if you can't make it to the show you can still see the video.
Also the band have the following shows lined up:
June 7th - Sweden Rock Festival 
July 18th- Bug Jam (UK) 
July 19th- Ljusterö Rockfestival, Sweden

Perfectsoundforever have a great article on Glen Buxton on line now.

Ticketmaster now has the following dates listed in addition to those already mentioned:
19th September - The Centre In Vancouver for Performing Arts Vancouver, BC
21st September - Interior Savings Centre Kamloops, BC
23rd September - Prince George CN Centre Prince George, BC
29th September - Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Calgary, AB
8th October - General Motors Centre Oshawa, ON
Plus one more:
15th October - St-Denis Theatre, Montreal, ON

Ticketmaster is listing two more Canadian shows. They are:
27th September Edmonton, AB at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, and Ottawa, ON, Ottawa Civic Centre, on 11th October. Tickets on sale April 1st at 10am.

Alice and American Idol Jordin Sparks are featured on an all-new episode of "Building Phoenix," the award-winning television program showcasing development in the city of Phoenix. The episode premieres at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, on PHX 11, the city's news and information station available to Cox and Qwest Cable subscribers. "On this episode of "Building Phoenix," Alice and Jordan  get personal about plans for Cooper's "The Rock" teen center."

Alice Cooper returns to London, Ontario to play Centennial Hall on October 10th at 8 p.m. It's being billed as Cooper's 40th anniversary in Canada, dating back to 1968 when promoter Don Jones first brought him to the old Wonderland Gardens. Tickets are $61.50 plus charges. They go on sale Friday.

Everyone heading into London for Alice's show on the 24th July should stick around and check out Damon Johnson and Whiskey Falls the following night, July 25th, at the Borderline club. This will be the bands debut UK show and it's a VERY small venue (next to the Astoria) so come down to support Damon and get your tickets while you can. They're on sale now for £7.50 here.
The band then play the Country Rendezvous Festival in Craponne, France on July 27th.

Ryan Roxie and happypill are apparently also coming to the UK for the first time! They play at the "Bug Jam' in Northampton on July 18th. More info on the event here.

A second UK show has turned up at Southampton Guildhall on Wednesday 23rd July. Standing and seated tickets go on sale friday at 9am. LiveNation are advertising a presale starting this morning but the link they provide doesn't work! 

On Friday 28th, Russ Wilson and Dennis Dunaway of DDP will be at the David Bowie, 'Hero', tribute album release party at the famous Brighton in New Jersey. Earl Slick (Bowie, Lennon) and Dennis will be jamming together.

Reviews and articles have been appearing about the New Zealand featival this weekend. NZHerald have a review and photos.There's a video of a local news report here or here. Stuff.co.nz have a couple of articles including this review.

The Dennis Dunaway Project will be playing at the Westchester Sports Bar and Grill in Yonkers on April 26th.

Ayreon have recorded a cover of 'Elected' with guest vocals by Tobias Sammet (of Avantasia) which will feature on a forthcoming EP.

Two new Japanese interviews have turned up this morning (in English). The first is at The Daily Yomiuri and the second at The Japan Times.

Alice Cooper has been announced as headlining the second night of the ‘Kaliakra Rock Fest' in Kavarna, Bulgaria on July 6th. Slayer and In Flames headline the other two nights. Tickets go on sale March 24 at the ticket center of National Palace of Culture (NDK) and Ticketstream. The price of 3-day ticket is 90 BGN (45 EUR). Single day tickets will become available later.

There also appears to be another show in Sweden on July 18th in Örnsköldsvik at Swedbank Arena.

The fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert will be honoring Alice Cooper and guitarist Slash on on May 9th at The Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA. All proceeds will benefit the MusiCares MAP Fund, which provides members of the music community access to addiction recovery treatment regardless of their financial situation. Alice will receive the  the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication to and support of the MusiCares MAP Fund and his devotion to helping other addicts with the recovery process. He is also scheduled to perform at the event (as is Slash).  "When I got sober more than 20 years ago, the MusiCares MAP Fund did not exist," said Cooper. "It's so important that musicians and other music industry people have access to the kind of resources MusiCares and the MAP Fund provide and I'm proud to be honored this year and help raise funds to support this significant work."

Alice is listed to appear at The 2008 Kraft Nabisco Golf Tournement at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage on April 1st and 2nd.

Alice Cooper has been announced as headlining the Norway Rock Festival in Kvinesdal on Friday 11th July. Tickets are available now.

Alice has been confirmed for this year's 'Magic Circle Festival', which happens on July 9th-12th in Bad Arolsen, Germany.

Three new shows appear to have been announced. The first is on July 24th at the Motor Show Music Festival at London ExCeL. Tickets are on sale now on some UK ticket sites. (Thanks Rob)
Alice will also be playing the Chase County Fair in Imperial, Nebraska on August 15th (tickets on sale June 28th) and the Rock Weekend in Kilafors Herrgard, Sweden on either the 18th or 19th July.

In other news (and one I forgot to mention before) Gibson.com have an article up about 'Public Animal #9'.
(Thanks Erik)

Alice was at the 'John Varvatos 6th Annual Stuart House Benefit' fashion event this past weekend along side Cheap Trick. You can see photos at GettyImage.
(Thanks NSP)

The debut album by 'Saints Of The Underground' entitled "Love The Sin, Hate The Sinner" will be released on April 22nd on Warrior Records. The band was formed by Keri Kelli and also features Bobby Blotzer (Ratt's drummer), Jani Lane (Warrant vocalist) and Robbie Crane (Ratt's bassist).

Cindy Smith-Dunaway (Wife of Dennis Dunaway and intregral part of the early Alice Cooper ste up) will have a special radio biography and interview on March 18th, 7:30 pm Est (Canada), CFOU 89.1 FM. The show will focus on her career as a fashion and rock'n'roll designer throughout the decades, and more recently on her entrepreneurial career with her home decor store, Moon Hollow, in Wilton, CT. Plus something about the Alice Cooper band of course.
To listen go to www.cfou.ca and in the upper right corner, click on the two speakers with some French words: Écoutez en direct sur le web (it means to listen...). Then select the software that you need (Media player 9 or Winamp) and click on the first French yellow line just beside the software that you need.

Steamhammer/SPV (home of Motorhead, Dio, UFO and many others) has announced the signing of rock icon Alice Cooper. Autumn 2008 will see the arrival of Cooper's eagerly awaited new studio album, which the legendary singer began recording in February. Tentatively titled "Along Came A Spider", the CD is being co-produced by Greg Hampton and Danny Saber (Madonna, Bowie, Stones, Ozzy etc) in Los Angeles.

Chuck Garric and Teddy Zig Zag will be performing with Billy Bob Thorntons band 'The Box Masters' in Dallas at the 'House of Blues' on the March 9th, and Austin 'South by South West' on the 11th of March. You can find more info on the Box Masters here.

Alice appeared on 'Campbell Live' in New Zealand the other day and you can see it here.

Happypill with Ryan Roxie have posted a new tune to their MySpace page called "The Valley". In other Roxie news the classic 'Peace, Love and Armaggedon' album is now available again as a download over at www.roxie77.com. If you haven`t heard the album yet, it's a classic so go get it! 'Second Chances' is available for free as a taster.

Alice has been anounced as headlining the Kansas State Fair on Friday September 12th. Tickets go on sale May 10th and will be $25.

Alice is mentioned as appearing on the BBC 4 show 'Motor City's Burning' on Friday at 10pm.

Damon Johnson's 'Whiskey Falls' were on the CBS Early Show in New York this past Saturday morning. It was broadcast on every CBS affiliate across the USA. They performed two songs and you can see one of them on Youtube. There was also an article on the band in the March 1st issue of Billboard magazine which mentiosn the band have now sold 25,000 copies of their debut album.

Ryan Roxie was a guest at "An Evening with John Lennon', a Lennon tribute show in Gothemburg, that also featured Plastic Ono Band member (and long time Yes Drummer) Alan White amongst others. Ryan played on three songs, 'Cold Turkey', 'Come Together' and 'Losing You'. Radio Skaraborg are netcasting the show in two parts, the second of which, online friday, will hopefully feature Roxie's songs (the first is online now). You can listen here. If the link doesn't make the show start playing straight away, try hitting the 'settings' link and selecting your player settings, closing the browser window, and then going back. That worked for me.

According to the Great Falls Tribune Alice will be playing the State Fair on August 2nd 2008.

February 26th at 8 pm (Québec, Canada, eastern time): DJ Serge Nadeau will present four songs recorded from the last concert performed by the Dennis Dunaway Project at the Cutting Room (NYC, January 25th), plus a special comment by Dennis.You can listen at www.cfou.ca.

Alice made a surprise appearance (well it surprised us anyway!) on the Late Late Show last night and you can check it out here.

There's also a new audio interview of Alice on the Drew Marshall Show turned up here.

AC.com has announced that Alice has added an extra show to the March dates and will for the first time be travelling to Seoul, South Korea for a show on March 29th. In other news about the tour, it has come to many people's attention that Kiss are playing some of the same dates Alice is playing, which means that Eric Singer cannot be in two places at once, Once again Brett Fitz, who has stood in for Eric in the past, will be performing at shows where there is a conflict with Kiss dates.

The new issue of Black Velvet Magazine has a review of Alice's November Wembley show in the new issue.

92.3 The Fort is running a competition to play golf with Alice.

The second part of Goldmine magazines interview with Dennis Dunaway is now online here.
(Thanks Roderick)

Calico Cooper appears in a short promo for the 'America's Top Zombie' show which you can see here.

The last issue of French magazine 'Xroads' had a mammoth 14 page article about Alice Cooper including a cool Alice cover.
(Thanks Patrick)

TimesOnline has a new interview with Reb Beach with a few Alice mentions.

Dick Wagner has posted the following update to his website:
"Sorry to be so negligent, but I've found myself being really busy lately and have mostly forgotten that some of you want a health update. It's getting pretty bad when y'all care more about me than I obviously do. My health is on the upswing...my left arm is improving a lot, no guitar playing yet but it is just a matter of time and the therapy will have brought me back to the stage again. How well I will be able to play is unknown but I will be thankful for every note acheived . Thanks for all the well wishes and yes...I love you too."
(Thanks Brenda)

Further to the old news story about the 'Declare Yourself' project to get various artists to re-record 'I'm Eighteen' to encourage kids to register to vote, the first cover version has arrived by rapper Sean Kingston. You can hear it here but be warned, it's attrocious!

There's been a fair amount of coverage of the Bridgestone Tire advert in the press, mostly pretty positive. The Outsports article is worth mentioning, firstly because it reports that the advert is getting heat from the gay comunity with claims it's homophobic (?!), and secondly because it's an easy way to watch the advert!

SpiegelOnline has a new article on Alice, in German.
(Thanks Jörn)

Avantasia main man Tobias Sammet has been talking about his new album and Alice's involvement in it during an interview posted here.
(Thanks Andrew)

Alice was a guest at the Super Thursday Superbowl event on January 31st at Axis/Radius in Scottsdale. He also appeared at the 944 Poker Tournament on Friday also in Scotsdale. AZFamily have some video.

Calico Cooper will be a judge on the Horror Channel & Mindsplinters Films contest to find 'America´s Top Zombie' on Veoh
Beginning February 1st. Horror fans can upload clips of themselves dressed as zombie and compete for prizes and a shot at being selected "America's Top Zombie." The contest will run for a full month after which judges including Calico will pick the winner.

Nights With Alice Cooper is running a contest to win swag in the run up to Alice's birthday on Monday. Only open to listeners in the USA though.

Ticketek now have all the details online for the forthcoming Australian shows at The Palms.

The new issue of 'Classic Rock Magazine' has a couple of Alice related pieces. The first is a small article about the cover design of 'School's Out' and the other a short review of Mick Mashbir's recent solo album.

Goldmine have posted the first part of their Dennis Dunaway interview which is featured in the current suue. Part 2 to follow.
Musicboxonline have posted a review of the 'Hero' Bowie tribute album which features The Dennis Dunaway Project.

May 20th sees the release in the USA of the complete season three of 'The Muppet show' on DVD. This of course includes the complete Alice Cooper episode on the show. You can pre-order from AmazonUS here.

Dennis Dunaway is interviewed in the latest issue of 'Goldmine' magazine in the USA. It's part one of a two part interview with the rest to follow next month.

The 'Remember The Coop' board has posted some photos of Keri Kelli performing with the 'Big Ball Stars' last weekend.
(Thanks Barbara)

The new issue of 'Hooters' magazine has an interview with Damon Johnson and Whiskey Falls.

According to Ticketmaster Alice Cooper is to make a guest appearance at 'Jordin Sparks' Charity Celebrity Gala' at the SKYE Entertainment Venue of Glendale, Peoria, AZ on Wednesday, January 30th. Tickets are available now for between $100 and $200 and the event is in aid of Alice's Solid Rock Foundation.
(Thanks Julie)

Bridgestone Tires have released these cool photos from their Superbowl advert which airs February 3rd on Fox and of course features Alice. You can see them here.

More details have been released about the forthcoming Japanese shows here. Tokyo goes on sale February 17th at 10am.
(Thanks Stephen, Hiro)

Alice apparently performed "Knocking On Heavens Door" at a party on Friday night during the recent Bob Hope Golf Tournament as a duet with golfer John Daly.

Happypill (with Ryan Roxie) were on Sweden's biggest TV morning show today, 'Nyhetsmorgon', and got to play 2 songs 'This Year" and "Way To Nowhere". You can see them here.

ESP (Eric Singer featuring Chuck Garric) will take another trip to Japan to play February 9th and 10th in Tokyo at Club One Two (ESP Music Academy, Building No.12). The band will be
performing both nights, as will Richie Scarlet as part of the 2008 Kiss Expo Japan. 

The Dennis Dunaway Project will be performing at the Cutting Room, NYC, on Friday, January 25th, located at 19 West 24th Street between 6th and Broadway. The show will begin at 9:45. $10 cover.

RockRadio.com has a new interview with Alice online. Unfortunatly you have to pay to hear it!!
(Thanks Julie)

Speed Network in the U.S. aired the Barrett Jackson auction a couple of days ago from Scottsdale, AZ. Alice's car sold for  $185,000. Alice and Sheryl in attendance at the auction, but his car sold very quickly so he was on stage for a very short period of time.

Some more info about the forthcoming shows in March has emerged. They are:
March 19th and 20th 2008, Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia.
March 22nd 2008 Westpac Stadium (with Kiss) in Wellington, New Zealand (Rock2WTGN Festival)
March 25th 2008 Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan
March 27th 2008 IMP Hall in Osaka, Japan
As far as I can tell only New Zealand tickets are on sale so far.

Keri Kelli will be appearing at the NAMM music show in Orange County this Saturday. Keri will be doing 'meet and greets' on the Tone Pros Booth from 11am to Noon and the Diamond Amplification Booth from 2 to 4.

A few days ago a new blog post was added to the official Alice Cooper Myspace page. Of note was the news that Alice will be playing shows in New Zealand (already announced), Australia and Japan around Easter time and the suggestion that it will be worth fans watching for Alice content during this years Superbowl. It appears this will be an appearance in an advert for 'Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire Unit' to be shown during the game. Quote: "Bridgestone, which is also sponsoring the game's halftime show, had its agency come up with concepts for 140 different commercials, which Bridgestone narrowed down to three now being produced. The tire maker will select two spots to air during the game. The company says it is using ad formulas that have worked for other companies in the past: animals, humor and celebrities -- in this case, Alice Cooper and Richard Simmons.
"The 'Tucson Citizen Editorial Board' has an article questioning why Alice isn't involved in this years famous Superbowl half time show, being that is happening in Arizona, his home State.
(Thanks Jon, Gabor)

Happypill, featuring Ryan Roxie, have released the first in what is intended to be a series of 'Double Singles'. This release features their premier download single, 'This Year', the forthcoming follow up download '36 Hours' and two addition exclusive mixes of those tracks. All copies will be autographed by the band and you can grab this limited release here. The first 77 copies will come with a extra bonus gift. Anyone who reads this page regularly will know we're HUGE Roxie fans here at STUK and can't recommend happypill enough. You can still get the first 'Conscience Free Download' of "This Year" for free so take a listen!

The Dennis Dunaway Project have added their cover of Bowie's 'Moonage Daydream' to their Myspace page. In related news Dennis will also be appearing with Albert and Joe Bouchard in a new project called 'Blue Coupe'. Albert and Joe of course were members of Blue Oyster Cult throughout their classic years. The band will be playing 'Classic Hits' so I'm sure we can expect some familiar tunes. The first show will be January 19 at Pub 715, South Rte. 715, South Reeders, Pennsylvania.

Alice should be at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournament about now and it will be shown on the Golf Channel in the USA. 

Eric Dover's Sextus have released a video for their first single 'On The Freak Side' and you can watch it here.

The Dennis Dunaway Project's version of Bowie's 'Moonage Daydream' out now as part of a tribute album called 'Hero' on Main Man Records. The double disc set also features appearances by Earl Slick (David Bowie), Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols), Clem Burke (Blondie), The Alarm, Frankenstein 3000, Derwood Andrews (Generation X), Rat Scabies (The Damned), Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle), Enuff Z'Nuff and Mick Ronson's guitar (played by DDP guitarist Rick Tedesco).

PGATour.com has a short interview with Alice at the recent tournament. If it doesn't come up straight away do a video search for 'Alice Cooper' on the page.

Metal Rules have an excellent new interview (and new pics) with Eric Singer online durin which Eric chats about Alice and the new album, Kiss, Avantasia and much more.

'Golf Monster' is due out in paperback this May and you can pre-order it from AmazonUK and AmazonUS.

SickthingsUK went to the USA over Xmas to see the Dennis Dunaway Project play in New London, CT and a great time was had by all. The band ripped through a great set of classic both old and new and you can check out some photos in the photo section now.

There's a new interview with Alice up at CrossRhythms.com.

Alice was in Maui again his year for New Year and there's a small mention of him here.

A guitar donated by Alice for a charity auction has been stolen from an Ontario hotel. More info here.
(Thanks Brian)

The Michael Bruce Group will be playing at Skirts, 140 S Kolb,
SW corner Broadway & Kolb in Tucson AZ on February 1st, with Soul Harvest.