Monday, August 1, 2011

New Vinyl Record and Music Releases - August 2, 2011

Not a lot to choose from this week, although I can recommend a few including a DVD from 70's rockers Heart, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs Deluxe Edition, Fountains of Wayne with Sky Full of Holes, Okkervil River with Your Past Life as a Blast and a two CD set Ronnie James Dio's Ronnie James Dio Story: Mightier Than the Sword.

New hardcore and metal releases include Bury Your Dead (Mosh 'n' Roll), Immersed with In The Ire Of Creation, Unkind's Harhakuvat and Greeley Estates with the appropreitly titled LP The Death of Greeley Estates

CVR Blog picks highlighted in bold with link!


All Shall Perish - This Is Where It Ends

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (vinyl)

Arcade Fire's 2011 Grammy Award winning Album of the Year, The Suburbs, gets a deluxe anniversary CD / DVD reissue. The CD includes two new tracks (one featuring vocals by David Byrne) and an extended version of "Wasted Hours," in addition to the original album. The DVD includes the Spike Jonze film Scenes from the Suburbs, as well as the companion documentary Behind the Scenes from the Suburbs, and the official music video for "The Suburbs." The exclusive booklet features lyrics and 80 pages of photos taken during the film.

Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle (remastered with bonus CD)
Aristillus - Devoured Trees & Crystal Skies
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five (reissue) (vinyl)
Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion 2  (vinyl)
Boston Space Ships - Let It Beard (vinyl)
Buffalo Killers - 3
Bury Your Dead - Mosh 'n' Roll
Caina - Hands that Pluck
Capitol Six - Captain Rehab (vinyl)
Cast of Victorious - Victorious: Music From The Hit TV Show
Chaperone - Raised By Wolves (7" single)
Charlemagne Palestine & Joachim Montessuis - Voxorgachitectronumputer
Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming: The Instrumentals (vinyl)
Collections of Colonies of Bees - Giving
Conrad Schnitzler, Borngräber & Strüver - Con-Struct
D.O.K. - West Coast (vinyl)
DJ Raff - Latino & Proud
Dir En Grey - Dum Spiro Spero
Direct Hit - Domesplitter
Distance - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 08 mixes
Drive-By Truckers - Ugly Buildings, Whores & Politicians: Greatest Hits 1998-2009
Dub Taylor - Lumière For Synthesized & Concrète Sound (vinyl)
Dutchess and the Duke - Dutchess and the Duke (vinyl)
Fink - Perfect Darkness (vinyl)

Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes

Fruit Bats - Tripper (vinyl)
G.F. Fitz-Gerald & Lol Coxhill - Poppy Seed Affair (2 CDs+DVD)
Gavin Russom - Night Sky
Greeley Estates - The Death of Greeley Estates
Greyson Chance - Hold on Til the Night
Grieves - Together/Apart (vinyl)
Grinderman - Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man (vinyl)
Gypsy And The Cat - Gilgamesh
Harvest - Years of Defiance. Years of Disgust.
Heart - Heart: Live (DVD)
High Wolf - Atlas Nation
Himalayan Bear - Hard Times (vinyl)
Hole - Pretty on the Inside (reissue) (vinyl)
Holly Throsby - Team
Hope I Die Virgin - Is Forever No Way
Hot Water Music - The Fire, The Steel, The Tread / Adds Up To Nothing
Housemartins - Happy Hour: Collection
Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers
Hype Williams - Kelly Price W8 Gain Vol.II (EP) (vinyl)
Immersed - In The Ire Of Creation
It Prevails - Stroma
J-Live - S.P.T.A.
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter's - Marble Son (vinyl)
Jim Ward: Quiet in the Valley, On the Shores the End Begins / The Electic Six
John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns (CD+DVD Deluxe Edition)
John Wesley Coleman III/ Timmy's Organism: Split
Johnny Cash - Sings Hank Williams (reissue) (vinyl)
Johnny Cash - With His Hot & Blue Guitar (reissue) (vinyl)
Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
Joshua Radin - The Rock & The Tide
Justice - Civilization  (reissue) (vinyl)
Justice - Cross   (reissue) (vinyl)
Kangding Ray - Or
Keb Mo - The Reflection
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - How I Go
Le ButcherettesSin Sin Sin (vinyl) 
Louise Burns - Mellow Drama
Love of Everything - Sooner I Wish
Luciano - Rub-A-Dub Market
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday (remastered 4-LP box set)(vinyl)
Machinedrum - Room(s) (vinyl)
Malefice - Awaken the Tides
Manraze - Punkfunkrootsrock
Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx (II)
Mat Kearney - Young Love
Mathieu Santos - Massachusetts 2010
Max Richter - Sarah's Key: Original Motion Picture Score
Mika Vainio - Life (...It Eats You Up)
Mike Oldfield - Incantations (2 CDs+DVD)
Mode Moderne - Real Goths (vinyl)
Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped (vinyl)
Motels - Apocalypso
Musikanto - Sky of Dresses
Muslimgauze - In Search of the Abraham Mosque
NOFX - The Hardcare (vinyl)
Nekromantix - What Happens In Hell, Stays In Hell
New Boyz - Too Cool To Care
O.A.R. - King
Offshore - Pacer
Okkervil River - Your Past Life As a Blast
Ossie - Set the Tone (vinyl)
Panda Bear - Surfers Hymn (vinyl)
Patti Smith - Best of Patti Smith
Pg. 99 - Singles (reissue) (vinyl)
Powerwolf - Blood Of The Saints
Rhydian Roberts - Wave
Richard Bucker - Our Blood
Roberto del Burgo - Pocket Rockets
Roger Glover - If Life Was Easy

Ronnie James Dio - Ronnie James Dio Story: Mightier Than the Sword (2 CDs)
Roska - Rinse 15" mixes
Screaming Trees - Last Words: The Final Recordings
Siriusmo - Pearls & Embarrassments: 2000 - 2010 (2 CDs)
Slash and other acts - Phineas & Ferb Across 1st and 2nd Dimensions
Soft Swells - Every Little Thing
Somi - Live At Jazz Standard
Sovereign Strength - The Prophecy
Sun Wizard - Positively 4th Avenue

Suzanne Vega - Close Up 3: States of Being
The Calm Blue Sea - The Calm Blue Sea (reissue)
The Duke & The King - The Duke & The King
The Ettes - Look at Life Again Soon
The Ettes - Wicked Will
The Wood Brothers - Smoke Ring Halo
Thi'Sl - Beautiful Monster
Thou - The Archer and the Owle (vinyl)
Tig Notaro - Good One
Trace Adkins - Proud to Be Here
Unkind - Harhakuvat
Various Artists - Heidi Presents The Jackathon
Various Artists - Kommt Zusammen
Various Artists - DJ-Kicks: Motor City Drum Ensemble (vinyl)
Various Artists - David Rodigan's Dubwize Shower
Viva Brother - Famous First Words


New Jazz Releases - August 2, 2011


Remember, if you are a record company and have new releases or know of any I missed (especially vinyl), please email me and I will add your music to the list. I also do reviews of new vinyl, email me for more information.
Have new music for the list? Email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes



I found this article at, of all places at digitalmusicnews.com, and they bring up an interesting problem for the makers of vinyl records.

There haven't been any new pressing plants built in many years, which means that if the small increase in vinyl sales continues to increase, they could start reaching full capacity, (which isn't a bad thing!). However, it will get harder and harder to get something pressed on vinyl, and may even drive the prices up, meaning vinyl sales will probably drop at that point. (makes sense) The old machines do not have 'replacement' parts, so they have to be manufactured on site, just to keep some of these relics operating. read on..... (any vinyl manufacturers have a comment?)


Are The Vinyl Pressing Plants Worried The Vinyl Resurgence Is Just A Fad?

The simple version is that growing demand for vinyl will result in more capacity to handle that demand. Certainly makes sense over the long-term, though right now, it's just not that simple.

For starters, there are a lot of sticky production and expansion issues surrounding the recent surge in vinyl, including a deep suspicion among pressing plants that this is just a fad. And when it comes to capacity, there's a ceiling to consider. "What a lot of people don't understand is vinyl sales are going to get a lot slower before they get a lot faster," said Nick Mango of Limited Pressing, specifically part of a recent discussion surrounding Lyor Cohen's expressed adulation with wax. "There's only a certain amount of pressing plants on the planet. No one is making new pressing machines. Very soon plants will reach full capacity and vinyl will become increasingly hard to get pressed."

Please read at the rest at digitalmusicnews.com



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norm the eBay Vinyl Czar from Vinyl Record Talk  has put together another eBay Top Five:

Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 07/30/2011

A Bach classical set tops the list but at $4k less than its selling price in February of 2010. Two Northerns show up on this week's list; the Larry Clinton 45 sold last week as well, and the Al Scott shows up for the first time since 2007.





1. LP - Annlies Schmidt "Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Alone" Ducretet-Thomson 300 C 043/4/5 - $7,120.00

2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black Stereo - $5,274.14

3. 45 - Al Scott "What Happened To Yesterday" / "You're Too Good" Genuine 150 - $4,200.00

4. LP - Mozart a Paris Oubradous Pathe 7 LP Box Set - $4,139.98

5. 45 - Larry Clinton "She's Wanted" / "If I Knew" Dynamo 300 - $3,728.99


More on this week's Top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk , Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

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U2 End 360 Tour

The iconic U2 360 world tour is officially over with the band playing their 110th show last night in Moncton, Canada. The band have been on the road around the world on the 360 tour since June 30, 2009; which took them to Turkey and Russia for the first time ever. The biggest audience was 108,800 fans at Stadium Azteca in Mexico City on May 14, 2011.

Here is the U2 360 tour by numbers:

7,100,000 Fans
10 million People watched a live stream of U2 360 at the Rose Bowl on YouTube
320,000 Fans saw 360 in Mexico City
92,270 Meals fed to working staff and guests
29,000 Tee shirts given to local stagehands
9,760 Guitar strings utilized
7,100 Miles - approximate distance travelled by space station while talking with U2
5,200 Years - collective touring experience of U2 tour personnel
400 Tons - weight of the fully loaded claw
134 Crew members
126 Truck drivers
110 Concerts
53 Gigs attended by a single fan
33 Flemish speaking crew members
30 Countries
12 Bus drivers
11 Babies born to crew
7 Astronauts attended
4 Appreciative Irishmen
2 fairytale crew weddings
1 Singer in surgery
1 World leader released from house arrest during tour

and a partridge in a pear tree........

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DREAM THEATER Announce Collector’s Edition Box Set

Progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER are scheduled to release their new album, 'A Dramatic Turn Of Events,' on September 13 on Roadrunner Records. The CD, which marks the recorded debut of new drummer Mike Mangini, will be made available in the standard version; a special edition CD/DVD set will include "The Spirit Carries On" — a 60-minute movie documenting DREAM THEATER’s much-discussed drummer auditions; a double LP set in gatefold jacket; and a limited deluxe collector's edition box set.

The "A Dramatic Turn Of Events" deluxe collector’s edition box set includes the "A Dramatic Turn Of Events" album; instrumentals of the entire album; the DVD of "The Spirit Carries On"; a double-LP set of "A Dramatic Turn Of Events" (180-gram vinyl in gatefold jacket); DREAM THEATER-branded custom turntable slipmat; and a litho print of album. Also, 50 lucky winners will find a DREAM THEATER "Ticket For Life," which is randomly inserted into packaging. All the content will be housed in a custom box and those who purchase will receive a digital download of the album the day prior to release.







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new info in rolling stone about the saga of styx, full reunion or not?

Dennis DeYoung Open to Styx Reunion

'I gave that band my life'

Earlier this month, Rolling Stone interviewed Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw – and he told us that there was virtually no scenario in which he'd allow former frontman Dennis DeYoung to rejoin the band.

Read the rest and see what Tommy Shaw had to say at rollingstone.com

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they are playing in my neck of the woods (Twin Lakes, WI), maybe i can get to see them!

Five Finger Death Punch Announces "Share The Welt" Tour With Hatebreed

Five Finger Death Punch have recently announced it will headlining the "Share the Welt" tour this fall. The tour is in support of the band's upcoming third album, 'American Capitalist, which is slated to hit the stores on October 11th, 2011.

Supporting the band on the tour are All That Remains, Hatebreed, and Rev Theory. More dates are set to be announced in September, so stay tuned for updates. See below for all current tour dates.

Summer festivals:

8/13 Twin Lakes, WI @ Shadow Hill Ranch
8/16 Honolulu, HI @ Blaisdell Arena
8/19 Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center – (WQBK’S A BIGGER DAY OUT)
8/20 Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre – (ROCK ON THE RANGE CANADA)
8/26 Post Falls, ID @ Greyhound Park Ampitheater – (KHTQ ROCK HARD AT THE PARK)
8/27 Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre – (KISW PAIN IN THE GRASS)
8/28 Hillsboro, OR @ Washington County Fair – (PDX ROCKFEST)
9/10 Chandler, AZ @ Firebird Raceway – (UFEST)
9/18 Dayton, OH @ Montgomery County Fairgrounds – (WXEG X FEST)
9/24 Irvine, CA @ Irvine Meadows/Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – (EPICENTER)

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REIGN IN ART

I recently received an email from the webmaster at ReignInArt.com, applauding my posting of heavy metal and hard rock album cover art. (thank you!) 

Well, he takes it a step futher and has put together one of the most immpresive album cover art sites that i have seen launched in quite some time.

Every week they will post over a dozen of the best hard rock and heavy metal, cd/album releases of the week. Visitors can then Vote for Album of the Week, Vote for Album of the Month, Vote in RIA’s Weekly Category. The site also posts Weekly Winners, Monthly Winners, Interviews and Top 5 and more (a forum is coming soon!)

I have picked a few of my favorites









Iwrestledabearonce - Ruining It For Everybody





















BAYONET - Bayonet






















June 14, 2011 winner

Alestorm - Back Through Time





















so take a trip into heavy metal album cover art and see The Best in Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Album Art at ReignInArt.com


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lots of interesting events happened in music on August 1st, let's explore the past:

Francis Scott Key was born in 1779. He was an American composer, attorney, poet, and social worker. He was the composer of the "Star-Spangled Banner."

The late Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) was born in 1942.

Also in 1942, the American Federation of Musicians went on strike. Union president James C. Petrillo told musicians that phonograph records were 'a threat to members' jobs.' As a result, musicians refused to perform in recording sessions over the next several months, although live, musical radio broadcasts did continue.

In 1954, the "Moondog Jubilee of Stars Under the Stars" took place at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Acts on the bill included Fats Domino, Muddy Waters, the Clovers, the Orioles, and Little Walter.

Alt-folker, the late Robert Buck (10,000 Maniacs) was born in 1958.

Also in 1958, Era Records released "To Know Him Is To Love Him" by The Teddy Bears on their Dore label and sends 500 copies to radio stations across the US. The song was written by group member Phil Spector, who was inspired by the words on his father's tombstone. Spector's father had committed suicide when Phil was 12.

In 1960, Elvis Presley was named Public Enemy #1 by the East German newspaper, "Young World."

Also in 1960 Billboard reported the findings of a Seventeen Magazine survey...the average teenage girl listens to the radio two hours and thirteen minutes a day and plays records two hours and twelve minutes a day.

In 1960, Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was released in the US, where it will become the number one song by mid-September. Record industry history was made when Checker's original hit recording re-entered the charts in the Fall of 1961 and by January of 1962, was back in the number one position. It was the first record ever to hit number one on two separate occasions.

Also in 1960, an 18 year-old Aretha Franklin made her first recordings for Columbia Records in New York. Her initial chart appearance would come over a year later when her version of Al Jolson's 1918 hit, "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" would reach #37 during a two week stay on the Hot 100.

In 1963, the first Beatles Monthly Fan Club Magazine was published. It continued until 1969 and at its peak was selling 350,000 copies a month.

In 1964, the title track from The Beatles' movie A Hard Day's Night topped the record charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1964. The film was originally titled Beatlemania, until producers heard an offhanded comment by Ringo Starr as he flopped into a canvas chair and said "It's been a hard day's night, that was."

In 1964, Billboard Magazine reported that the harmonica is making a comeback in a big way thanks to its use by Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.

In 1964, Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Pop chart. Although they would place five more songs in the US Top 40, this would be their final Top 10 entry.

In 1964, rockabilly singer Johnny Burnette died in a boating accident while fishing at Clear Lake, California. He was 30 years old. Burnette is most often remembered for his two, 1960 million-sellers - "Dreamin" and "You're Sixteen".

In 1966, the Troggs accomplished the rare feat of having a Top Ten hit in both the UK and the US with different songs. In England, "With a Girl Like You" was a major hit, while in the US, "Wild Thing" led the Billboard chart.



In 1969, the three-day Atlantic City Pop Festival opened in New Jersey. It's the first such festival in the Philadelphia-New York area. Over 110,000 customers paid $13 to hear such artists as Iron Butterfly, CCR, Jefferson Airplane, Three Dog Night, Little Richard, Janis Joplin, Santana, Procol Harem and Joe Cocker perform.

In 1970, Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" entered the Billboard Hot 100 where it will climb to #4. Many fans are confused about the song's meaning until it is explained that the tune was being written at 25 or 6 to four in the morning.

"The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" was debuted on CBS-TV in 1971.


In 1971, the concert for Bangla Desh was staged to raise money for victims of famine and war in that country. The show featured George Harrison, with some help from his friends Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Ravi Shankar and some members of Bad Finger. The three disc live album from the show reached number 1 in the UK and number 2 in the US in 1972, as well as winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The concerts, album and film raised nearly $11 million US for the impoverished people of the newly-independent nation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.

In 1973, 'American Graffiti' premiered in Los Angeles and became something of a surprise hit. The film, centered on a group of teenagers growing up on the West coast of the US in the 1960s, cost just over $700,000 to make, but has garnered an estimated return of well over $200 million in box office receipts and home video sales. The soundtrack album reached #10 in America and has been certified triple Platinum.

In 1974, the Carpenters' album "The Singles 1969 - 1973" became the first LP to be certified Platinum in the UK.

In 1981, MTV made its debut at 12:01am. The first video to be shown was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.

In 1987, the Grateful Dead's LP 'In The Dark' entered the Billboard album chart. The disc contains the group's only US Top 40 hit, "Touch Of Grey," which would reach #9.

Also in 1987, Los Lobos' rendition of "La Bamba" becomes the first Spanish language recording to top the UK chart. Ritchie Valens' 1959 version reached #49.

In 1988, a Cincinnati radio station, WCVG-AM, began broadcasting Elvis Presley songs and trivia 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The format would last slightly over a year.

In 1996, Bill Buchanan, who originated novelty records known as "break-ins" with his partner Dickie Goodman, died in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 66. Break-in records used snippets of Top 40 hits as part of a comedy routine. Buchanan and Goodman first used the concept on "The Flying Saucer" which went to number three on the Billboard chart in 1956. The following year brought the hits "Flying Saucer the 2nd" and "Santa and the Satellite". Goodman committed suicide in 1989.

In 2008, a half-hour Beatles recording that included the band cracking jokes and breaking into giggles while they rehearsed material in 1964 went up for auction by the Berkshire-based firm, Cameo. The tape sold for $19,600.

Birthdays today (among others) include Michael Penn (1958) and Adam Duritz of Counting Crows (1964)

Welcome 2 My Nightmare: Alice Cooper Returns with a New Album, New Nightmare

 
 
The Long-Awaited Sequel to his 1975 classic out on September 13, 2011

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alice Cooper's widely anticipated new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, will be released September 13, 2011, by Universal Music Enterprises. Recorded with longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, who produced the original multi-platinum Welcome To My Nightmare album in 1975, the album picks up right where they left off, with Alice trapped in his own warped mind.

The original release is an all-time rock classic that spawned a worldwide theatrical tour and pioneering U.S. TV special, and certified Alice Cooper as a visionary trailblazer whose influence persists today in rock, metal, pop, punk, theatre, television, film and much more.

More than 35 years later, Alice and Ezrin have resurrected the horror and humor for a new generation.

"This is Alice's nightmare 35 years later," explains Alice, "Bob and I created this character and we know how to write for him. I play the part but we're not writing for me, we're writing for Alice. We kept the first Nightmare album very personal to us, on this one we found more humor and we were more open. This was our world and we want to present it to the fans. The original album was my first solo album after all those huge hit records with the original band and now that nightmare is exposed, this one can be a little bit more open. The music crosses all sorts of boundaries; we went where the lyrics took us."

There is an array of collaborators on the new album, including original Alice Cooper members Denis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith reunited on 3 tracks; global pop superstar Ke$ha, who affectionately calls Alice "dad"; and legendary Alice and Lou Reed guitarist Steve Hunter, who is part of Alice's current touring band and featured prominently on the first Nightmare album.

Musically, the album ranges far and wide, from trashing disco to garage punk, pop balladry to a rocking number, very much in the spirit of the Rolling Stones. And then there's the ballad "Something To Remember Me By," described by Alice as "the prettiest song we have ever released."

Glimpses of themes from the original album are intertwined throughout, each track representing a different aspect of Alice's nightmare.

From the opener, "I Am Made Of You," through the already established live favorite and first single "I'll Bite Your Face Off," to the surprising duet with Ke$ha, "What Baby Wants," this album is a reminder that albums just aren't made this way anymore.

And musicians do not play together like Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith anymore.

"I wanted a '70s feel for 'When Hell Comes Home,' says Alice, "and I didn't even have to ask for it, it's just how they play and they did it live in the studio. When they got done playing the basic track, Bob and I just looked at each other, that sound is built into their DNA. We didn't need to go and fix anything. The way they finished was a little bit ragged, and that's the way we used to finish songs, that's what I like about it."

Co-writers on various songs include the aforementioned Bob Ezrin, Ke$ha, Dunaway, Bruce and Smith, plus Buckcherry's Keith Nelson, Desmond Child (who famously co-wrote and produced "Poison" with Alice), longtime collaborator Dick Wagner, current touring band member Chuck Garric, and film composer Jeremy Rubolino.

"That's my rebellion," says Alice of the more surprising guests, "I like people that don't belong and yet what they're doing works perfectly. I don't care where it comes from, as long as it's right. If you tell me something doesn't work, I'll work my head off until it does then shove it down your throat."

"I think a lot of my audience is going to go 'KE$HA!?', but she probably wrote the most wicked lyrics in the song – we had to rein her in. I like people to know that just because artists are put in a pigeon hole, that doesn't mean that's what they are. Give people a little room."

With Steve Hunter, one of rock's great guitarists, added to the band's lineup of guitarists Damon Johnson and Tommy Henriksen, bassist Chuck Garric, and drummer Glen Sobel, Alice has been tearing up venues worldwide on his 2011 "No More Mr. Nice Guy" tour.

Alice gave fans an up close and highly personal experience in June with a surprise performance at London's legendary 100 Club, when actor Johnny Depp joined the band on guitar. Alice showcased the powerful band that had blown away the Download Festival crowd the previous weekend.

This year, the original Alice Cooper group was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, and Alice was honored with both the Kerrang! Icon Award in the U.K. and the Revolver Golden God Award in the U.S.

Tracklist:
1. I Am Made Of You
2. Caffeine
3. The Nightmare Returns
4. A Runaway Train
5. Last Man On Earth
6. The Congregation
7. I'll Bite Your Face Off
8. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever
9. Ghouls Gone Wild
10. Something To Remember Me By
11. When Hell Comes Home
12. What Baby Wants
13. I Gotta Get Outta Here
14. The Underture


Alice Cooper's Worldwide "No More Mr. Nice Guy" 2011 Tour Continues:

August 5 Billings, MT Alberta Bair Theatre
August 6 Sturgis, SD Buffalo Chip Campground
August 7 Moorhead, ND Bluestern Center for the Arts
August 9 Akron, OH Civic Theatre
August 11 Grand Rapids, MI Rock The Rapids
August 12 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
August 13 Mashantucket, Connecticut Foxwoods
August 15 Morristown, NJ Mayo Performing Arts Center
August 16 Reading, PA Sovereign Center
August 17 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
August 19 Lewisburg, WV State Fair
August 20 Englewood, NJ Performing Arts Center
August 21 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
August 23 Scranton, PA Cultural Center
August 25 Northampton, MA Calvin Theatre
August 26 Buffalo, NY Erie Canal Harbor Park
August 27 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Center
September 22 Auckland, New Zealand Trusts Stadium
September 24 Brisbane, Australia Soundwave Revolution
September 25 Sydney, Australia Soundwave Revolution
September 26 Sydney, Australia Enmore Theatre
September 29 Melbourne, Australia Palais
September 30 Melbourne, Australia Soundwave Revolution
October 1 Adelaide, Australia Soundwave Revolution
October 3 Perth, Australia Soundwave Revolution
October 5 Singapore Marina Bay Grand Theatre
October 7 Jakarta, Indonesia Venue TBA
October 12 Rome, Italy Atlantico
October 13 Padova, Italy Gran Teatro Rex
October 14 Milan/Bergamo, Italy Live Club
October 16 Basel, Switzerland St Jakobshalle
October 18 Vienna, Austria Gasometer
October 20 Chemnitz, Germany Stadthalle
October 21 Goppingen, Germany EWS Arena
October 22 Mannheim, Germany Rosengarten
October 23 Zoetermoor, Holland Silverdome
October 25 Sheffield, England City Hall
October 26 Bristol, England Colston Hall
October 27 Birmingham, England NIA
October 29 London, England Alexandra Palace
October 30 Manchester, England O2 Apollo
October 31 Glasgow, Scotland Clyde Auditorium
November 2 Brussels, Belgium Ancienne Belgique
November 3 Lille, France Zenith
November 5 Toulouse, France Zenith
November 6 Lyon, France Halle Tony Garnier
November 8 Paris, France Zenith
November 9 Rouen, France Zenith
November 10 Rennes, France Liberte
November 12 Bremen, Germany Pier III
November 13 Mulheim An Der Ruhr, Germany RWE Arena
November 14 Berlin, Germany Columbiahalle
November 17 St Petersburg, Russia Oktiaborski
November 19 Moscow, Russia Crocus City Hall Expo, 3rd Pavilion


SOURCE Universal Music Enterprises