Alice Cooper

The ten best concerts to see in Denver this week

TURBONEGRO @ OGDEN THEATRE | MON, 5/20/13 In 1989, when Norwegian band Turbonegro got together, it was clearly fueled by a love of Alice Cooper and acts like Hanoi Rocks and the Stooges. You can hear the influence in songs like "Sell Your Body (To the Night)," which features an obvious guitar-riff n ... More >>

New Denver shows: Fun., Tim McGraw, O.A.R., Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and more

We already told you about a pair of killer shows at Red Rocks this summer, a double bill featuring two generations of shock rockers, Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson, and another featuring the National and Local Natives, but there's a bunch of other new shows this week to tell you about, including a ... More >>

Red Rocks: Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson, the National and Local Natives, on sale Fri/Sat

Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson at Red Rocks. Sweet Jesus! How has this totally obvious and sure-to-be-awesome pairing not happened before now is anybody's guess. The music world's O.G. shock rocker and his direct artistic descendent are slated to share a bill at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday, Ju ... More >>

The Truth About Rock is absolutely terrifying

A few days ago, Angus T. Jones had some sort of crisis of conscious. In a video for a church in Alabama, he urged people to stop watching his show, Two and a Half Men. "Please stop filling your head with filth," he implored. "People say it's just entertainment. The fact that it's entertainment...do ... More >>

Alice Cooper will bring all of his personalities to town this week

See also: Slide show: Alice Cooper at the Paramount Theatre

Backbeat's top five spins: This is what we're listening to this week. What's on your playlist?

As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn't be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: "What are you listening to right now?" Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn't you know it, off ... More >>

Marilyn Manson on post-Columbine death threats and Hunter S. Thompson being the worst possible father figure in the best way

Marilyn Manson, even more than one of his inspirations, Alice Cooper, has become a lightning rod of controversy for his provocative lyrics and visual style. The guy had an album called Antichrist Superstar, after all, and he's been fairly open about his drug use, what more conservative members of so ... More >>

Buzz Osborne of Melvins on how to him Beastie Boys were Warlock Pinchers for Dummies

Since 1983, Melvins have been perfecting their brand of influential rock, inspired in part by punk and in part by the music Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover grew up hearing as kids in the '60s and '70s. With Melvins, the two have taken that sound to different places with each record that their contempor ... More >>

Ed Edmunds on electric chairs, haunted houses and the Travel Channel's Making Monsters

​Chances are you've seen -- and screamed at -- some of Ed Edmunds' work, whether you realize it or not. The artist is responsible for creating the creepy animatronics in haunted houses all over Colorado, as well as for making custom projects like set pieces for Alice Cooper. Edmunds' Greeley c ... More >>

Who Is That Masked Man?

Scare Tactics: The top five most horrifying acting performances by musicians

​Apparently Jack Osbourne (son of Ozzy) is going to appear in a new horror film due to be released in...wait, we don't care. The news did, however, spark our interest enough to take a look at what other rockers have squandered their reputation broadened their horizons by acting in horror movie ... More >>

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2011: Apathy and antics

Getty Images​A bunch of old white dudes and Darlene Love got trophies yesterday at a fancy hotel in New York. We're referring, of course, to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, an institution that exists to reaffirm our canonical certainties. This year's class: Love, Tom Waits, Alice Coo ... More >>

In honor of Valentine's Day, we present you with fifteen love songs about... inanimate objects

​It's Valentine's Day, which means the entire Internet is abuzz with songs about love -- or if people are feeling particularly sad -- songs about hate. But what about those who prefer to spread their affection to other things, like inanimate objects? Well, there are plenty of those songs, too. ... More >>

Lady Gaga, queen of the cadavers? We hope not.

​ There's one for every generation: the shock rocker. For those of us who grew up in the '90s, it was Marilyn Manson. For our parents, it was Alice Cooper. For the current crop of young, impressionable minds, it's, uh, Lady Gaga, apparently. As reported (and poorly sourced) by notorious U.K. ... More >>

Ten musician related comic books

​ We found the above gem while wandering around the comic store yesterday -- it appears to be some type of (unauthorized?) biography of Lady Gaga. Unfortunately, mom didn't give us enough loot to actually buy it, so we'll never know for sure. What we do know, however, is that this isn't the f ... More >>

Q&A with Dick Valentine of Electric Six

​Electric Six have been bringing the party to the unwary for six albums in as many years, starting with 2003's Fire and leading up to the brand-new Kill. The group's songs combine '80s rock, disco and New Wave into a cranked-up, ultra-catchy sound all its own, with lyrics that mix a David Lee Roth ... More >>

A combo bar and barber? The Retro Room is a cut above

Lizzie Borden

Thursday, November 20, Gothic Theatre, 303-788-0984

Mini Reviews

Q&A With the Fluid’s Rick Kulwicki

Mini Reviews

Fire and Ice

It's Denver vs. Phoenix, and there's more than baseball at stake.

Heaven and Hell

Tuesday, September 25, Coors Amphitheater, 303-830-8497.

Delegating Denver #4 of 56: Arizona

Praise the Lordi

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Marilyn Manson

Eat Me, Drink Me
Interscope

The Sounds of Summer

Tunes that take us back to those lazy, hazy days.

Tifah

These believers prefer to be judged by their music, not their faith.

Dark Funeral

Thursday, January 25, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7624.

Glen Campbell

The Wichita Lineman finally made it to Phoenix.

Army of Anyone

Army of Anyone
Firm Music

Venom

Wednesday, August 30, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

Critical Fatwa

Ja Rule

The Genitorturers

Tuesday, October 18, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

Who Needs Sturgis?

Thunder in the Rockies is ready to exhaust riders.

Go Ask Alice

For Alice Cooper, violent demises are a family affair.

Fair Weather, Friends

The Colorado State Fair whirls again.

What's So Funny

GWAR

Wednesday, December 8, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-2525.

Retroactive

Monster Stash

A modern-day Dr. Jekyll brings fears to life in his Greeley laboratory.

Kick Astral

Festival Fun

The hills are alive with the sound of music. Ever wonder why?

Backwash

Denver’s clubs go changing. Again.

Mushroomhead

XX (Universal/Filthy Hands)

Backwash

16 HP rides high with Hoarse, a new collections of live cuts from local performances.

The Bite

Who ate what, where and when during Boeing's recent visit.

Electric Frankenstein

The Dawn of Electric Frankenstein
(Triple X Records)

That's Kinky!

Kinky Friedman is an author/musician/Jewish cowboy like no other.