Alice Cooper‘s vindication was short-lived. The singer born Vincent Damon Furnier survived all sorts of peril on Thursday at Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion during the opening night of his Freaks on Parade co-headlining tour with Rob Zombie. Cooper handled a venomous snake with ease, outsmarted a towering Frankenstein and gritted his teeth as a guard electrocuted him. He […]
Lita Ford has looked back at her early days with the Runaways, noting that the all-female band had to push past sexist prejudices to make a name for themselves. “We were before our time, for sure,” Ford explained during an appearance on The Kenny Aronoff Sessions podcast. “There were no women in the audience at […]
Former Foreigner singer Lou Gramm claims material he recorded with his ex-bandmate Mick Jones is being kept from him. “Those are some really very, very good ideas,” Gramm noted during an interview with radio station WBAB (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “Mick and I were really on the same level at that point, same page. And […]
They say great minds think alike. This has proven true many times throughout rock ‘n’ roll history when it comes to naming songs. There are, after all, only so many words in the English language, and copyright law doesn’t extend to protecting song titles. There are bound to be some repeats every once in a while. […]
Legendary shock-rocker Alice Cooper has voiced his concerns regarding gender-affirming care, opining that it may have become a “fad.” “I’m understanding that there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that,” Cooper […]
Nostalgia without narrative is the kiss of death for film and TV — look no further than the endless stream of IP-based catastrophes that have flooded movie theaters in recent years. But when That ’70s Show premiered on Aug. 23, 1998, it transcended cheap nostalgia by incorporating its bell-bottomed jeans and classic rock cameos into a whip-smart, ribald sitcom with a […]
Stewart Copeland wants you to be his tenant for a cool $25,000 a month. The Police drummer has listed his nearly 2,400-square-foot Montecito, California home as being available to rent. According to Trulia.com, the home is currently estimated to be worth a little more than $6 million. The website reports the it was was sold for […]
The Rolling Stones had no shortage of illicit affairs at the peak of their stardom, so it’s no surprise that rumors swirled for years about the subject of their chart-topping ballad “Angie.” Yet the Goats Head Soup lead single prompted even more salacious speculation than the rest because of the parties presumably involved: David Bowie and […]
Along the Red Ledge showed where Daryl Hall & John Oates were headed. Unfortunately, they weren’t quite there yet. Hall & Oates had taken a short break after turning more toward rock on 1977’s gold-selling Beauty on the Back Street. Hall recorded a solo debut with King Crimson‘s Robert Fripp that emptied almost all the soul from […]
If you’ve spent any time perusing British tabloids over the past 24 hours, you may have been tricked into believing that a modified version of Queen‘s Greatest Hits omitting the song “Fat Bottomed Girls” is evidence of the so-called “woke agenda” taking hold of the music industry. In reality, there’s a perfectly reasonable (and less rage-inducing) explanation for the […]