
From Loudersound.
Alice Cooper’s much-anticipated Detroit Stories album finally has a confirmed release date. Delayed due to complications caused by the coronavirus lockdown, the album will emerge on February 26, 2021 on earMUSIC. Even better, the godfather of shock rock is offering up a first taste of the album on Friday, November 13, with the release of lead-off single Rock ‘n’ Roll, a cover of the Velvet Underground classic.
Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, the Bob Ezrin-produced Detroit Stories follows last year’s Breadcrumbs EP as a homage to Alice’s hometown and its fecund late 60s/early 70s rock scene.
“Detroit was Heavy Rock central then,” explains Alice. “You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and The Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked.”
“Los Angeles had its sound with The Doors, Love and Buffalo Springfield,” he says, “San Francisco had the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. New York had The Rascals and The Velvet Underground. But Detroit was the birthplace of angry hard rock. After not fitting in anywhere in the US (musically or image wise) Detroit was the only place that recognized the Alice Cooper guitar driven, hard rock sound and our crazy stage show. Detroit was a haven for the outcasts. And when they found out I was born in East Detroit… we were home.”
Cooper and long-term producer Bob Ezrin gathered some legendary Detroit musician for Detroit Stories, including the surviving members of Alice’s original band, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer and Johnny ‘Bee’ Badanjek (drums, Detroit Wheels). Joe Bonamassa and Grand Funk Railroad’s Mark Farner also appear.
Detroit Stories will be available on CD, CD+DVD Digipak, CD Box Set (including CD, Blu-ray, T-shirt, face mask, torch light and 3 stickers), and 2LP Gatefold on February 26, 2021 on earMUSIC. The DVD and Blu-ray will include Cooper’s A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris for the first time on video.
“I’m itching to get back out there,” Alice insists. “Rock ’n’ roll isn’t over, it’s just postponed.”
(Image credit: earMUSIC)
1. Rock ‘n’ Roll
2. Go Man Go (Album Version)
3. Our Love Will Change The World
4. Social Debris
5. $1000 High Heel Shoes}
6. Hail Mary
7. Detroit City 2021 (Album Version)
8. Drunk And In Love
9. Independence Dave
10. I Hate You
11. Wonderful World
12. Sister Anne (Album Version)
13. Hanging On By A Thread (Don’t Give Up)
14. Shut Up And Rock
15. East Side Story (Album Version)
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- Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare - Laminated - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $34.00, €28.00 (New Item) (arrived 17-Apr-2021 15:06)on April 22, 2021 at 12:42 pm
ALICE COOPER Welcome To My Nightmare (1976 UK 11-track LP, the first true solo effort from Alice with a special guest appearance from Vincent Price, fully laminated picture sleeve with illustrated lyric inner. The sleeve shows only minor edgewear; the vinyl has a few light surface scuff/hairlines, but these do not affect play - a very respectable EX copy ANCL2011)
- Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation - CD & Comic Book - US - CD album - £35.00, $47.60, €39.20 (New Item) (arrived 31-Mar-2021 18:20)on April 22, 2021 at 12:42 pm
ALICE COOPER The Last Temptation (1994 US special limited edition 10-track CD album packaged with a bonus 32-page Marvel comic, featuring a story based around Alice written by Neil Gaiman & drawn by Michael Zulli, complete with the Forbidden Planet flyer with Alice picture, all housed in the original custom stickered plastic sleeve. This has been opened, however the disc inside remains sealed! EK52771)
- Alice Cooper - Dragontown - Autographed - German - CD album - £45.00, $61.20, €50.40 (Back In Stock) (arrived 06-Mar-2021 07:24)on April 22, 2021 at 12:42 pm
ALICE COOPER Dragontown (Autographed 2001 German pressed European 12-track CD, his fifteenth solo release including 'Sex, Death and Money', 'Fantasy Man', 'Every Woman Has A Name' & 'Triggerman';housed in the jewel case withthe fold-outpicture / lyric inlay. The sleeve has been boldly signed by guitarest Ryan Roxie across the front in a silver marker pen)
- Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid - UK - 12" picture disc - £15.00, $20.40, €16.80 (New Item) (arrived 11-Mar-2021 10:05)on April 22, 2021 at 12:42 pm
ALICE COOPER Hey Stoopid! (1991 UK limited edition 3-track 12" Picture Disc single, also including It Rained All Night and Wind Up Toy, housed in a clear PVC sleeve)
- Alice Cooper - Poison - UK - 12" vinyl - £10.00, $13.60, €11.20 (New Item) (arrived 12-Mar-2021 10:06)on April 22, 2021 at 12:42 pm
ALICE COOPER Poison (1989 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single, also including Trash plus a live version of Ballad Of Dwight Fry. The picture sleeve shows only a little wear and the vinyl appears in excellent condition)
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