Alice Cooper

The Five Most Culturally Significant Wayne's World Songs

If you're under the age of 40 and have head-banged to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" -- which came out in 1975 -- you've probably been influenced by the 1992 classic (?) SNL-spin-off comedy Wayne's World. But that's not its only banger; in fact, seemingly the entire soundtrack infiltrated the musical c ... More >>

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Angela's Sashes

Alice Cooper's Original School's Out Pressing Came With a Pair of Panties

By Glenn BurnSilver See also: Who knew? Alice Cooper actually had a great time in high school In this week's issue, we speak with Alice Cooper about the 40th anniversary of his signature ode to teenage rebellion, "School's Out." "I've never had a song or heard of any song that's had as much impa ... More >>

School's Out Forever

Who knew? Alice Cooper actually had a great time in high school

The Hookers: Punk, Metal, Southern, and Particularly Nasty

Louisville, Kentucky-based punk-metal act the Hookers are among the hardest-hitting and under-appreciated forces in contemporary music. Their sound -- screamingly pure, brutally focused, dangerously loud, dreamily vehement -- evokes a particularly nasty Southern sub-culture (ever heard of the Confed ... More >>

Dark Shadows and God Bless America Reviewed

The latest from Tim Burton and Bobcat Goldthwait

Marilyn Manson, Slash, Evanescence - Club Nokia - 4/11/12

Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>

Do You Schmear What I Schmear?

C'mon, Girl Talk! The Plague Of Overplayed Halloween Songs

Please don't terrorize us with typical tunes this weekend!​See also: *LinA in LA Party Picks: Just Say No to "Slutoween" *Doin' It In A Haunted House: The Five Best Hip-Hop Halloween Songs *The Craziest Danzig Stalker of Them All Everybody's, um, favorite track masher-upper Girl Talk just re ... More >>

The 2nd L.A. Vegan Beer Fest: More Fun Without Alice Cooper

el daybeh/flickrThe taps scene from the last fest.​ We wonder how former Roxy regular Alice Cooper would feel about the vegan festival set to take place at the club next weekend. Remember that Cooper, for all the guillotines and gory lyrics, a relatively sweet-tempered rock personality, once ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Heavy Metal Mosh Potatoes An Alice Cooper-Worthy Snack Recipe

​There are those cookbooks -- an awful lot of them in recent Food Network years, it seems -- that you pick up and immediately set back down. Then you scout for something of substance to pick up by, say, Diana Kennedy or Harold McGee, to pretend that momentary Rachel Ray EVOO moment never happe ... More >>

'Re-Animator The Musical,' Now With Ravaging Rock Band Openers

Lina Lecaro Head bangers welcome at Re-Animator- The Musical. ​From Alice Cooper to GWAR to Marilyn Manson, sinister schlock and rock have always gone hand in (severed) hand. Music artists embellishing their stage show with theatrical thrills will never cease (even Lady Gaga's got monsters and ... More >>

The Hills Have Fonts

Top 10 Metal Shows in LA in 2010 (with Bonus Video Evidence!)

Timothy NorrisThe 2010 LA Weekly poster children for LA Metal posing at Sunset Strip Music Festival​ "THE" 10 best LA Metal shows of the year? How dare we? Alright--we're gonna go there. It wasn't easy but after a few hours rummaging through the desk drawer that finds my old drunkenly discard ... More >>

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2011 Inductees Leaked?

​A much less momentous version of Wikileaks has interfered with the mysterious selection process for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Website Hits Daily Double apparently got hold of the list of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees for 2011 a few days early (the official announcement is tomorro ... More >>

Misfit, Lemmy, and Alice Cooper Costume Contest at Spaceland, Winners Get Melvins Tix!

Misfit, Lemmy, and Alice Cooper Costume Contest at Spaceland, Winners Get a Month of Melvins Tix!

Nightranger: REDRUM & RITZ

Dance Club Pick: Where Did I Put My Undead Tony Wilson Costume?

Tonight: Pavement, Sonic Youth, Spoon, John Cale, Jamie Lidell, Rob Zombie, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sebastien Tellier

Marcus RothPavement, 1999​Pavement's year-long victory lap has been exhilarating for the band and fans alike -- we know people who haven't stopped grinning since Coachella. But the faithful who have it in the back of their heads that the pride of Stockton might keep the wheels turning and mak ... More >>

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Did You Know Salvador Dali Once Made a Hologram of Alice Cooper's Brain? Wanna See It?

Dali Cooper: Not a photoshop​Today's WTF news comes from Atlanta, where a museum (the High Museum of Art--we are not making this up) is hosting a major exhibit called "Dali: The Late Work." The museum got Alice Cooper to "to lend his voice and recollections and observations of "the great and ... More >>

Alice Cooper Gets All Funny When He Thinks About Erykah Badu's Tight Naked Body

This morning, Alice Cooper went on CBS's The Early Show where he talked about that video where Erykah Badu gets nekkid in the Dallas square where the Freemasons, the CIA, disgruntled Cubans, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Illuminati shot JFK. The CBS lady interviewing him really thinks Erykah has been a ... More >>

Henry Rollins Meets Vampires

Henry Rollins, "Suck"​Beatcrave points us to the intriguing trailer for rock'n'roll vampire movie Suck, which will be previewing at SXSW this coming week. According to Beatcrave: the new vampire flick [...] stars rock legends Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins (and Moby). The name of the ... More >>

5 Great LA Dive Bars: From the Lost & Found to the Wild Goose

A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters. Some dives are time machines, frozen in forgotten eras, while others make for the perfect spot to lose an hour or three or ten ... More >>

A Public Service Announcement from Alice Cooper

A Public Service Announcement from Alice Cooper

Rhino to Release 'Digital 45s,' with A-sides, B-sides and Original (PDF) Sleeves

In ongoing effort to bring weird little songs from Rhino's catalog to the top of the digital avalanche, the legendary LA reissue label is launching a new series of so-called 'digital 45s.' This morning the label announced the program: Rhino will spotlight songs originally issued on 45 by offering t ... More >>

Carroll Corral

More Alice antics from Troubador Theatre Comany

Alice in One-Hit-Wonderland 2: Through the Looking Glass

Record Reviews: Cat Power, Drive-By Truckers

Also: Richard Swift, Black Mountain

Best Place to Sing Karaoke and Pick Up Chicks With Mr. Belding

Dimples

Rock Picks: Ruins, Beirut, Turbonegro, Metric

Also, Bill Callahan, Emmylou Harris and more picks for the week of October 4 –11

Brit Boppers

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Music Picks

For the week of August 10–17

Welcome to the Jungle

Japanese Metal (It's Aaaall Fuuucked Uuuppp!)

DIR EN GREY, OPIATE FOR THE MASSES at the Wiltern LG, March 23

Stratocaster Collage

Glenn Branca’s Hallucination City for 100 electric guitars

Getty Up or Bagg It

Concerts of the Year

Fireball Ministry

Local bands, man

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894–1941

Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away

Live in LA

Sunset Junction August 27-28 Snoop Dogg/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ice Cube at the Greek, August 25

Doctors of Apeshit

Let There Be Rock

Capsule Band Profiles

I'm 48

Growing old with Alice Cooper

Have You Ever Been Teen?

Rodney Bingenheimer remembers

Glam Flock

Return of the sweet art of pre-Spice, post-Glitter rock & roll