Kane Roberts' Self-Titled Debut Gets Reissued
April 20, 2012

From yesterrock.com

Kane Roberts is well known as guitar player for none other than ALICE COOPER. He can be heard on the albums "Constrictor" and "Raise Your Fist To Hell". He also performed live on the tours for these albums. The guitarist as well was involved in writing the songs on these two albums and in charge for adding the Metal flair of the late 80's to Alice's sound. Roberts' on stage performance was branded by his masculine looks and his utopian looking, pyrotechnical guitars.
After leaving Alice's band, Kane Roberts released his first, self-titled solo album in 1987. The lyrics of the song "Full Pull" have been penned by Alice Cooper. In 1989, the guitarist appeared as a guest on Cooper's "Trash" record, on the song "Bed Of Nails".
"Saints And Sinners", Roberts second album, was released in 1991 and included the Jon Bon Jovi written track "Does Anybody Really Fall In Love Anymore?" which also has been recorded by Cher. Additionally to this, he also can be heard on the group BERLIN's record "Count Three & Pray" which was produced by Bob Ezrin and on one album by Rod Stewart. Roberts also sang backing vocals on Steve Vai's "Sex And Religion" record. The song "Take It off" from the Kiss record "Revenge" was written by Roberts, Bob Ezrin and Paul Stanley. Furthermore, he took part in the recordings for albums by STATUS QUO (Quo) and DESMOND CHILD (Discipline).
After the release of his second solo album, Kane Roberts granted himself a break of a couple of years outside of the music business and returned in 1999 with his band PHOENIX DOWN. "Under The Wild Sky" is the only album released by this group. Since then, Roberts has been working as graphic designer and programmer for video games.
In 2006, Kane Roberts started to record a new album which so far hasn't been released.

Ever wonder what happen to Tommy T-Bone Caradonna who played bass w/ Alice during the Trash Tour? Well I did and found out Tommy has an amazing band called Razorbliss. I just purchased their debut "American Gomorrah" from iTunes unfortunately it was released in 2009. Well better late than never.
I found this to be an excellent album.

You can read my review here.

Also some of the tracks can be heard at
http://www.myspace.com/tommytbonecaradonna
http://www.myspace.com/razorblissband

New Alice Cooper Book By Dave Thompson titled
Welcome to My Nightmare: The Alice Cooper Story

Originally scheduled June is moved to Sept 1st.

taken from hayspost.com

September will see the release of "Welcome To My Nightmare: The Story Of Alice Cooper", a new book spaning the career of KFIX Night Guy, Alice Cooper.
An excerpt from the book's official description reads, "Drawing from exclusive and unpublished interviews with a variety of names and faces from throughout Alice's career, the book follows Cooper's tale from his life growing up as a preacher's son in Arizona, through the early years of struggle in Phoenix and then Los Angeles, and then onto the roller coaster ride that has been the years since then,"
The book will feature interviews with Alice's original bandmates Michael Bruce, the late Glenn Buxton, & Neal Smith, as well as Frank Zappa, manager Shep Gordon and producer Bob Ezrin.
"Welcome To My Nightmare: The Story Of Alice Cooper" will be released Sept. 1st in the U.S.

Dave Thompson has written and published over 100 books and has contributed to many music magazines including Rolling Stone, Mojo, Spin, Q, Record Collector, Melody Maker and NME. Widely regarded as an expert on the Glam Rock scene, he has written biographies of Sweet, Sparks and a Glam Encyclopaedia.

Amazon.com list this book as 320 pages.

from Guitarworld

Alice Cooper's macabre masterpiece, The Strange Case of Alice Cooper, will be released on DVD for the first time on May 22 via Shout! Factory.

The video has been unavailable (officially, anyway) for more than 30 years.

Recorded live on April 9, 1979, in San Diego during a stop on the Madhouse Rock Tour, Strange Case was inspired by Cooper's stay in a New York sanitarium and the people he met there. Vincent Price introduces the proceedings as ghoulish doctors and transvestite nurses cross paths with dancing bottles of alcohol. All the while, Cooper performs songs from his From The Inside album and a healthy serving of his other hits.

The DVD also features an audio commentary by Cooper.

The Strange Case of Alice Cooper Setlist:
From The Inside, Serious, Nurse Rozetta, The Quiet Room, I Never Cry, Devil's Food, Welcome To My Nightmare, Billion Dollar Babies
Only Women Bleed, No More Mr. Nice Guy, I'm Eighteen
The Black Widow, Wish I Was Born In Beverly Hills
Ballad Of Dwight Fry, Go To Hell, How You Gonna See Me Now
Inmates (We're All Crazy), School's Out

Pre-order amazon.com

Ryan Roxie's Casablanca " Apocalyptic Youth" available now.

Ryan Roxie's new project Casablanca is a Swedish/American five-piece band featuring well known members guitarist Ryan Roxie (of Alice Cooper and Electric Angels), drummer Josephine Forsman (of Sahara Hotnights), bass player Mats Rubarth (Swedish national team football player), guitarist Erik Stenemo (of Melody Club) and front man Anders Ljung (of Space Age Baby Jane) on vocals.

Apocalyptic Youth consists of ten tracks, including the first single Downtown.
You can check out more info and video here.

Hear more tunes on Casablanca Myspace here.

My review here.

Ken Mary from the Eighties played w/ Alice during his Constrictor Tour and recorded on Raise Your Fist & Yell album. Then leaving to form Fifth Angel.

From blabbermouth

Members of Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Lizzy Borden all performing on the Knight Fury "Time to Rock" CD.

Bassist David Ellefson (MEGADETH), drummer Ken Mary (ALICE COOPER, IMPELLITTERI, FIFTH ANGEL) and vocalist William King are among the guest musicians who appear on "Time To Rock", the debut album from KNIGHT FURY, the project led by former LIZZY BORDEN guitarist Chris Sanders.

The Knight Fury "Time to Rock" album is available from online retailers everywhere and visit Knightfury.com for the latest!

My review of Knight Fury here.

"From Straight To Bizarre" DVD released Feb 21th
(not officially endorsed)
This DVD is on the history of Zappa's Straight/Bizarre label. Includes interviews with Neal Smith and Dennis Dunaway and some great still photos.

You read my review here.

Amazon.com took it off the list if you want to order it
you can go to See of Sound here.