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Neal Smith To Release New Album

Neal Smith is releasing a new Killsmith album next month called “Killsmith Goes West”. The album will include 10 new songs and Neal will be launching the album via a live appearance on TalkShop.live on March 2nd at 7PM ET (Midnight UK Time). You can pre-order signed copies of the CD now via Talkshop.live.

In addition to Blue Coupe’s show at the Westport library on March 10th Dennis Dunaway will be returning there on April 2nd for a book signing featuring the famed ‘Snakes Museum of Rare Alice Cooper Artifacts’ and a screening of ‘Live From The Astroturf’. You can get all the details here.

There’s another new book on Alice Cooper coming out on March 28th. This one is Sickthing Chris Sutton’s sequel to his “Alice Cooper in the 1970s” and is called “Alice Cooper in the 1980s.” As the title suggests, this book will concentrate on Alice’s career between ‘Flush The Fashion’ in 1980 and the mega-hit album ‘Trash’ in 1989, a period often given little if any space in other AC books. Chris has interviewed many of the key players from the period including Mike Pinera, Jan Uvena, John Nitzinger, Graham Shaw, Ken Mary, Kip Winger, Kane Roberts, John McCurry and Al Pitrelli so there promises to be lots of new stories to enjoy. You can pre-order the book now via AmazonUK and AmazonUS

Freaks On Parade US Tour Announced

Freaks On Parade US Tour Announced

Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie head out on the road together again on the ‘Freaks On Parade’ starting August 24th in Dallas. Support comes from Ministry and Filter. Pre-sale tickets and VIP Packages will be available from tomorrow at 12pm local time with code ‘FREAKS23’. General tickets go on sale Friday, February 3rd at 10am local time. The dates so far are as follows:

August 24th – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
August 26th – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
August 27th – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
August 29th – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park At Walnut Creek
August 30th – Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
September 1st – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
September 2nd – Des Moines, IA – Wells Fargo Arena
September 5th – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre​
September 6th – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
September 8th – Scranton, PA – The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
September 9th – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
September 10th – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
September 12th – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
September 16th – Englewood, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
September 19th – Ridgefield, WA – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
September 20th – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
September 22nd – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion
September 23rd – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center
September 24th – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Alice for Power Of Love Benefit

Alice Cooper, Sammy Hagar and Kevin Cronin are among the stars to take part in the 26th annual "Power Of Love" gala in Vegas

Alice Cooper, Sammy Hagar and Kevin Cronin are among the stars to take part in the 26th annual "Power Of Love" gala on February 18th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. The event raises money for the Cleveland Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.

Ryan Roxie will be appearing at the Birmingham Guitar Show at Cranmore Park, Birmingham (UK) on Saturday February 25th. In addition to this he will be doing a short private acoustic show at a ‘top secret location’ but this is already sold out. You can apply to be put on a ‘waiting list’ in case in case any additional tickets become available. Details here.

Nita Strauss has posted a new video recap about her recent Meniscus repair surgery and her recovery which you can see here.

Music Box in Cleveland, OH are to host a free "Alice Cooper @75′ book event on March 9th to mark the launch of the "Alice Cooper @75" book by Gary Graff. The event will feature author Graff along with legendary concert promoter Jules Belkin, WMMS FM 100.7 program director John Gorman and Alice Cooper superfan Bill Peters. Entry is free but you need to book a table in advance here.

Vampires Play Hellfest and Roxie Plays Athens

The Hollywood Vampires play Hellfest in France, while Ryan Roxie plays special solo show in Athens.

It’s been a pretty quiet New Year’s for Alice and the gang. It appears there was no New Years Eve gig in Hawaii this year, presumably related to the sad passing of Alice’s mother, and very of anything else going on.
However there are a few things to cover before they are out of date.

The Hollywood Vampires have been added to the bill at Hellfest in France on June 15th. They will play second on the bill to Kiss. Four day festival tickets are sold out, but the site says one day tickets will be available at some point.

Ryan Roxie will be flying to Greece in February to play a special solo show with Greek Alice Cooper Tribute band Snakebite. It will take place on February 18th at the Temple, Athens and tickets are available now. Support comes from Scream Collision and Wild Machine with a DJ set from Johnnie Holliday. You can also find the event on Facebook.

For collectors there are two new Alice figures on the way. The first comes via Good Records (the shop behind the ‘Live at the Astroturf’) and is a "Super7 ReAction Glow In The Dark’ figure. From the images it looks a little weird, but maybe it looks better in the dark! You can pre-order this one now via Good Records.
The second figure is slightly more conventional – an 8" "Mego Action" figure in ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’ costuming. This one is due in May and can also be pre-ordered now.
With both these items beware of outrageous shipping costs to the UK. In the case of the Mego figure the postage appears to be $10 more than the doll itself!

Alice Plays Rockville

Alice Plays Rockville

Alice Cooper will play the ‘Welcome To Rockville’ festival in Daytona Beach FL in May 20th next year. Tickets are available now. Also on the bill the same day are Pantera, Godsmack, Sepultura, Kreator and a host of others.

Also announced is yet another Alice Cooper book, but this one is actually official! It’s an ‘official pictorial autobiography’ entitled ‘Starring Alice Cooper’ and is expected to be available in the second half of next year with exact details revealed in the new year. The book will be released in three versions including a limited edition signed hardback in slip case. You can see images at AC.com.

And if you’re looking for that last minute Xmas present for the fan who needs everything… how about limited edition Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding socks! Yes, Solid Rock are selling Alice Cooper Christmas themed socks (2 pairs) in a nice gift box, plus a special edition of The Rock’s own magazine. Good luck getting it to the UK by Xmas day though!!

US Tour Dates

Alice Cooper will be joining Def Leppard and Motley Crue for US shows in August 2023

Alice Cooper will be joining Def Leppard and Motley Crue for US shows in August 2023. Pre-sale tickets go on sale December 15th via AC.com using code “COOPER23”. The dates are as follows:

August 5th – Syracuse, NY – JMA Wireless Dome
August 8th – Columbus, OH – Ohio Stadium
August 11th – Fargo, ND – Fargodome
August 13th – Omaha, NE – Charles Schwab Field Omaha
August 16th – Tulsa, OK – H.A. Chapman Stadium
August 18th – El Paso, TX – Sun Bowl

AZCentral has a full report from the Xmas Pudding show last weekend with photos.

New Cooper Magazine Covers

Two new magazines have Alice on the cover

Phoenix New Times, a free Phoenix entertainment magazine, features Alice on the cover this month and a article celebrating 20 years of Christmas Pudding shows. You can read the full article here.

Spanish magazine ‘This Is Rock’ also has Alice on the cover and can be purchased here. The article seems to be based on Martin Popoff’s recent Cooper books.

Chuck Garric is interviewed by LaughingMonkeyMusic in a new video on YouTube.

Kane Roberts has been chatting to Guitar World about his return to the band after over 30 years.

Ryan Roxie is auctioning a signed kids toy car(!) for the ‘Save The Children’ charity on Ebay in Germany. Certainly an odd collectable to have and no bids so far!

More Vampires Dates

More Vampires Dates

The Hollywood Vampires have announced three more shows for next year. They are:

June 17th – Pinkpop, Landgraaf, NL
June 18th – Graspop, Dessel, BE
July 16th – Slavkov Open 2023, Slavkov, CZ

Catfight Coffee have released a special edition Alice Cooper ‘Burundi AA Coffee’ in special packaging with exclusive T-Shirt. Says Catfight: “When we heard ‘Caffeine’ from Alice on the ‘Welcome 2 my Nightmare’ we knew we had to do a coffee that would live up to the song. This coffee is certified by the Specialty Coffee Association and ranks in the top 20% traded on the market. It’s a single-origin Burundi AA roasted to a Medium/Dark profile. The champagne of coffees!” You can order now here.

The Arizona Department of Transport ran a “name-a-snowplow” competition to name some of their 200 snowplows and after 4,700 names and 7,000 votes one of the names selected is ‘Alice Scooper.’ The Alice Scooper snowplow will be stationed in Flagstaff, AZ and can be seen around the local area over the winter. Alice posted a short video on Twitter.

Crossbone Skully Launched

Crossbone Skully Launch

Today was the official launch of Tommy Henriksen’s ‘Crossbone Skully‘ project and this evening Tommy was ‘In The Trenches‘ with Ryan Roxie spilling the beans on the concept behind the record/film/comic and it’s special guests which include fellow Vampires Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry, along with appearances by Sheryl Cooper, Nikki Sixx, Chris Wyse and many more! The first single ‘Evil World Machine‘ is available now on all good streaming service so go check it out!

The Arizona Desert Sun has a report from last weekends ‘Rock The Plaza’ event which featured Alice along with Orianthi, Teddy Zig Zag, Eric Singer, Paul Rodgers, and Josh Homme amongst others. The event raised $200,00 for ‘Save The Plaza’.

Neal Smith is reissuing the first two Killsmith albums ‘Sexual Savior’ and ‘Killsmith Two’ and will be appearing on Talk Shop Live on November 23rd during which signed copies of both CDs will be available.

The current issue of UK horror magazine ‘The Darkside’ has a Alice on the cover and a feature inside. You can order a copy here.

If you are into baseball cards there’s a new one to search out. You can find it in random packs of ‘Topps 2022 Allen & Ginter‘ cards in the US and features art of Alice about the throw a baseball.

Youtube houses a wealth of rare material but one new video worth highlighting is 13 minutes of silent super8 footage filmed at the Toronto show on December 14th 1973, What makes this footage so special is this was the show the band were forced to play without the legendary ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ stage show, which didn’t arrive at the venue on time due to adverse weather conditions. As mentioned in Bob Greene’s ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ book, the band had to scramble around to decorated the stage with Xmas decorations and change the show at the last minute, which makes this footage truly unique, especially as it includes Greene himself, as Santa, being beaten up at the end of the show! Definitely worth a look.

Dave Libbert, Alice Cooper tour manager in the 70s is featured in two new interviews promoting his recent book ‘Rock And Roll Warrior’. The first is live tonight at 10PM PST on KFI-AM. This is apparently NOT archived so you can only hear it live. The second is an interview with All Music Live which you can check out on YouTube.