Shock Rock king Alice Cooper has shared the first new music from his upcoming new album. “Rock & Roll” is the first song from Detroit Stories and features Steve Hunter, Johnny Bee, Paul Randolph, and “Honorary Detroiter” Joe Bonamassa. “Rock & Roll,” a classic song by The Velvet Underground from the album Loaded. The album releases on February 26, 2021 on earMUSIC. Watch the video and pre-order the album now.
“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.”
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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 26th 2021 on earMUSIC.
Pre-Order Detroit Stories here:
https://alicecooper.lnk.to/DetroitStories
Pre-Save the single “Rock ‘n’ Roll” here:
https://alicecooper.lnk.to/RocknRoll
Tracklist
- Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Go Man Go (Album Version)
- Our Love Will Change The World
- Social Debris
- $1000 High Heel Shoes
- Hail Mary
- Detroit City 2021 (Album Version)
- Drunk And In Love
- Independence Dave
- I Hate You
- Wonderful World
- Sister Anne (Album Version)
- Hanging On By A Thread (Don’t Give Up)
- Shut Up And Rock
- East Side Story (Album Version)