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Alice Cooper: No More Mr. Bad Guy

In the 1970s, Alice Cooper was the poster child of "the devil's music," a sexually ambiguous, mascara-smeared heavy metal demon with subversive lyrics and mock-drama stage theatrics. In 2011? Well, this year marks his 11th Christmas Pudding, an annual variety show-style bash featuring rock stars, magicians, and comedians that has...
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 16th, 2012

BAD DEALS Another hard-boiled gem: This is another great Paul Rubin story — hard-boiled and fact-based. I wouldn't want to get on Rubin's radar screen if I had anything better left untold ("Risky Business," February 2). R.J. O'Brien, Tempe A look at Weymouth's "morality ledger": Paul Rubin has done a...
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Korn to Bring Heavy Dubstep-Inspired Rock to Comerica Theatre

Korn has been full of announcements during the past year. The veteran rockers added a fresh new chapter to their catalog with a 10th album, The Path of Totality, which found the band shifting its style onto a path a lot of people didn't see coming. Another "single rockstar" bit...
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Happy Birthday Arizona: 100 Songs that Define Arizona, Pt. 1

Editor's Note: An abridged version of this article appears in this week's issue, featuring 100 Songs that Defined Arizona. In celebration of Arizona's centennial, we've rounded up sound clips for (almost) everyone featured in our list, and will be rolling them out over the course of the week. "Not alone...
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Four Holiday Concerts That Won’t Totally Suck

​Holiday shows suck. At least the kind your mom is going to drag you to. You know the drill: some over-rated, over-the-hill songstress belting out every cliché Christmas song she can think of, including "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth." God, that song is just the...
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A Weekend in Jerome

It's summertime, which means it's the perfect chance to make an exodus from the Valley, either by hitting the open road or jetting off to somewhere cool. Over the next few weeks, Jackalope Ranch will profile a few unique destinations around Arizona and the southwest that are perfect places for...
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100 Years of Music That Defined Arizona

"Not alone for gold and silver / Is Arizona great / But with graves of heroes sleeping / All the land is consecrate!" — "Arizona March Song" The goal of finding Arizona's 100 greatest songs was hardly easy. We asked our readers to tell us what songs have defined Arizona...
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6 Musicians With Surprising Political Affiliations

​Music is one of those creative things that only hippies do, or at least that's the stereotype. But seriously, what kind of self-respecting conservative would devote themselves to being a (guf-ah!) professional musician? And what already-famous musicians would commit the career suicide of admitting their Republican affiliation? Sometimes the answers might...
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Seven More Alice Cooper Songs for His Grotesque Haunted Maze

Could there be any better Halloween gift than to wander around in Alice Cooper's brain for an evening, watching him teeter on the edge of sanity, just about to fall off? Proooobably not. That's why this year, Halloween Horror Nights 2011 at Universal Studios Hollywood will veer from its traditional...
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Tumblr of the Week: This Is The Coop

One of our most notable local musicians is the king of shock rock, Alice Cooper. We may know him as a radio DJ, celebrity golfer, and restaurateur, but the folks behind This Is The Coop reach way back to bring readers weird and wild pics of "The Coop." More on...
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What Are Arizona’s 100 Greatest Songs?

As we barrel toward the impending Arizona Centennial, we find ourselves contemplating a lot of things. Why would someone settle in this hot-as-bejeebus desert? Who serves the best burrito in the state? Most importantly -- where are the faces in the Grand Canyon? The Presidents?  We've been thinking a lot...
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Alice Cooper’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare

You've got to wonder when Alice Cooper even finds time to play celebrity golf tournaments. Not only is he busy inspiring attractions at Universal Studios, feeding Adam Richman Big Units at Cooperstown, and hosting a popular radio show on KSLX 100.7 FM, but Cooper's prepping release of a new record,...
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Our Favorite Non-Metal Horror Soundtracks

In recent years, horror flicks and metal have enjoyed a loving relationship. Metalheads love horror, and the feeling is mutual. (Where did we put that copy of The Blair Witch 2 soundtrack?) Obviously many metal musicians truly enjoy sci-fi, monster and horror films (with guys like Rob Zombie, The Misfits,...
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Steve Weiss, What Are You Listening To?

Weiss is a fine art photographer with Candid Landscapes and executive director of No Festival Required Independent Cinema, a four-time Best Of Phoenix winner. Weiss will be doing film programming for Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's new SMoCA Lounge in November.When you put your key in the ignition and turn...
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