Alice Cooper

12 (More) Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For

Hey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the calendar year.

These Artists Should Sell Coffins As Merch

Sorry to throw salt in your New Year's revelry, but as something begins, so too something ends. And that makes us think about death. Because we're sick. And practical. Sickly practical. Practically sick. ANYWAY, the imminence of death begs an essential question: how will you be buried? It's never ... More >>

I Just Sang With Some Rock Legends! (Video Below)

Remember when I told you about the Frankie's Friends benefit (to help sick pets) at the Cutting Room, where Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle were headlining? Well, it really happened on Tuesday night, both of those stars singing powerful, heartfelt country tunes to a roomful of rapt admirers. While ... More >>

Last Minute Music-Inspired Mashup Costumes For Your Already Busted Halloween

Halloween on a Wednesday. It was a massive bummer before Sandy came and took a shit all over it. It makes sense if you've not yet picked out a costume. We've got some last minute, music-inspired costume suggestions. All of them are awful, maybe. But after all that's gone down these last few days, ex ... More >>

Bands Carrying On The Proud Alice Cooper Shock-Rock Tradition ... According To Alice Cooper

Today we're handing the keys to the blog to spook rock pioneer Alice Cooper. Here he talks about a few music artists doing him proud. By Alice Cooper See Also: - Ten Creepy Movies That Scare the Hell Out of Alice Cooper - The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

Alice Cooper's Best Songs ... According To Alice Cooper

To wrap up his day, guest editor Alice Cooper is sending you off into the frightening night with a list of his favorite songs. His own. Thanks for everything today, Alice! Don't worry about the blood stains you left in the office. We'll have an intern clean them up. Happy Halloween, everybody! S ... More >>

Alice Cooper Takes Over SOTC For Halloween Tomorrow

Tomorrow is Halloween, and we're taking the day off, handing over the keys to a frightening someone whose name evokes an appropriate level of ghoulish camp: Alice Cooper. Throughout the day Alice will be posting about his favorite scary bands, scary movies, and scary golf courses movie scores. He'l ... More >>

Your Frighteningly In-Depth Guide To Insane Clown Posse's Upcoming Record The Mighty Death Pop!, Featuring Kreayshawn, Ice Cube, Color Me Badd, and a Christina Aguilera Cover

On August 14, Insane Clown Posse will deliver their 12th studio album, The Mighty Death Pop! The last time Detroit's finest punching bags released a full-length original album, September 2009's Bang! Pow! Boom!, they gave the world "Miracles," an unintentionally hilarious viral-video ode to giraffes ... More >>

How To Survive Rain in New York City

What the hail? If you were in New York City yesterday, you are certainly aware of the inclement weather which loudly dumped several inches of rain and quarter-size icerocks on our fair metropolis -- resulting in at least four lightening-related injuries and flooding in subway and highway hubs, acc ... More >>

Iron Maiden+Alice Cooper

Vampires, All of Them: On Dark Shadows and God Bless America

Jones Beach Theater And PNC Bank Arts Center Schedules Announced: Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Kelly Clarkson, And More

Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County ... More >>

Six Songs Michele Bachmann Could Have Signed Off With That Weren't Train's Beejers-And-Burning Man Ode "Hey, Soul Sister"

After a dismal showing at yesterday's Iowa caucuses, one-time Republican Presidential front-runner and "interesting person" Michele Bachmann announced today that she was ending her campaign to be sworn in as Commander-in-Chief next January. Once the brief press conference disseminating the news ende ... More >>

Nickelback (And Paul Scheer) Try To Figure Out Why Everyone Hates Nickelback

​Why do people hate Nickelback enough to craft petitions inveighing against their inclusion in the halftime entertainment of a regular-season NFL game? (Even the Black Eyed Peas' Super Bowl appearance didn't inspire such e-ire!) I tried to figure this out two weeks ago and maybe sorta did, at ... More >>

UNHOLY NIGHT

It’s fowl play in Dina Martina’s latest

Danzig's One Last Caress

Don't call it a comeback, because, for better or worse, the guy never went anywhere

When the Burtons and Brando and Malcolm McDowell Blew Through Town

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 21, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 25 Hype! Hype! Hooray! by Arthur Bell A heat wave blew into town last week. So did Merle Oberon, Malcolm McDowell, the Burtons, Ron O'Neal, Alice Cooper, Marlon Brando, withered endives, chopped liver fro ... More >>

Live: Tom Waits (And A Punk-Rock Neil Diamond) Dominate The Rock Hall Induction Ceremony

The 2011 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Monday, March 14 Better Than: Whatever was happening at Death by Audio tonight that Bruce Springsteen didn't show up to, for whatever reason. First off, let's tell you what you want to hear: Tom Waits stole the show ... More >>

GUTS, GLORY

Gore-obsessed black metallers muck up Santos’ Party House

Rating the Ridiculous Musical Performances of Fashion Week 2010 (So Far)

As much of the Boom Boom Room as you're ever likely to see. Twitpic via grekotv​Fashion Week is a biannual rite in New York, and with it comes another biannual rite--awkward, private late night performances from bands that are either at the center of the zeitgeist (Kanye West on the bar at the ... More >>

The Endtables Emerge At Last

As do Tin Huey, Pistol Whip, and myriad other unjustly forgotten early-indie innovators

10 Nominations for 2010 World Cup Anthems Better Than Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)"

We defy you to unironically enjoy this song. The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa kicks off on June 11th. Sports-wise, the tournament promises to be thrilling, with 32 teams from around the world pitting their varied domestic styles and approaches to the game against each other in a bid to deci ... More >>

OH, CANADA!

See what's new in Canadian cinema

How to Fix the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Tips on how to expand its reach—or blow it up entirely

It's Official: CBGB To Be John Varvatos. But Wait, There's More.

She's Gotta Have It

Loonies in heat, often accompanied by guitars

She's Gotta Have It

Loonies in heat, often accompanied by guitars

Trading Up

Money-for-nothing stunt proves an object's value is in the eye of the beholder

Hostile & Nasty

Angry brutes and tattoo artists whip you with the grease chain

Oral Pain Equals Aural Gain

Second life for a steel-bar-bending rocker and his muscles of love

Motor Suburb Madhouse

Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP

Animalize

Talking with John Mikl Thor, rock gladiator

Quite Sporting, Eh?

The wild, untamed, rock-star style of . . . golfers

Wham, Bam, Thank You Glam

Fancy-pants glitter bands from Detroit, Canada, and upstate remember their forefathers

Books

Download: Garage, Glam, Punk, or Metal?

Lullaby and Goodnight, With Fee Waybill Sleep Tight

Mine Enemy The Turkey

Add to the many things not to be thankful for this year 13 CDs that will make your gorge rise

Piss Promise, Doktor

Gustave Hertz, Mr. Pod, and Venison machen sie metall

Do-Gooders Do Good

The most commendable political compilation of a watershed year for official liberalism

Foyer Mansion

Buy Low, Sell High

She's Got Balls

Best of the Rest

Seventeen Liar Bodies

Motor Suburb Madhouse

Death by Truncheon

Guys and Dolls

Scrap Metal

Ronnie Spector