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After more than four decades of sobriety, Alice Cooper has spoken about how his addiction to drugs almost killed him.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph to mark the release of his new memoir, Devil on My Shoulder, Cooper says his struggles with narcotics came after his well-documented problems with alcohol and only began after he was misleadingly told that he could safely smoke cocaine without becoming dependent.

“This was at the very beginning of crack, and crack is the most addictive drug there is, by far,” says Cooper. “That was really the thing that almost killed me.”

Cooper first entered rehab in 1976 to address his issues with alcohol – a four-week stay that inspired his From The Inside album – but lapsed after a year, before finally conquering his addictions in 1983 after his wife, Sheryl, gave him an ultimatum: clean up and reaffirm his Christian vows, or leave.

“So I did,” says Cooper. “And that put us back together, you know. And it was almost a relief to get back to church.”

Cooper also reveals how modern musicians live very differently from those in the 1970s.

“If you’re in a touring band, nobody gets high, nobody ever drinks, because now it’s a big business and you can’t afford to have a guy that’s doing that,” he says. “In the Seventies, you didn’t hire the guy unless he got high, so everybody was on the same level.”

Alice Cooper begins his Devil On My Shoulder book tour on October 11 in Cardiff, UK, before kicking off the latest leg of his Alice Attic tour at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL, on October 27. Cooper has also just added some more dates to his upcoming Welcome To My Nightmare Las Vegas residency with magician Criss Angel. Full dates below.

Devil On My Shoulder is published on October 8 via Ebury Spotlight in the UK and Da Capo in the US.

Alice Cooper: Devil On My Shoulder UK book tour 2026

Oct 11: Cardiff New Theatre
Oct 12: Cambridge Corn Exchange
Oct 13: London Palladium
Oct 14: Brighton Dome
Oct 16: Manchester Opera House
Oct 17: Stockton Globe
Oct 19: Glasgow Pavilion Theatre
Oct 20: Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Alice Cooper: Alice’s Attic tour 2026

Oct 27: Clearwater Ruth Eckerd Hall, FL
Oct 30: Richmond Altria Theater, VA
Oct 31: Atlantic City Tropicana Casino & Resort, NJ
Nov 01: Bethlehem Wind Creek Bethlehem, PA
Nov 04: Hershey Theatre, PA
Nov 06: Windsor Caesars Windsor – The Colosseum, ON
Nov 07: Kalamazoo Wings Event Center, MI
Nov 08: Waukegan Genesee Theatre, IL
Nov 10: St. Louis Stifel Theatre, MO
Nov 11: Park City Hartman Arena, KS
Nov 14: Indio Fantasy Springs Casino, CA
Nov 15: Prescott Valley Findlay Toyota Center, AZ
Nov 17: San Diego Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, CA
Nov 18: San Jose San Jose Civic, CA
Nov 20: Wheatland Hard Rock Live at Hard Rock Hotel + Casino, CA
Nov 21: Reno Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort + Casino, NV

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Alice Cooper and Criss Angel: Welcome To My Nightmare residency

Nov 27: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Nov 28: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Nov 29: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Dec 03: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Dec 04: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Dec 05: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Dec 06: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV

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Photos by Paul Miles Melbourne’s premier symphonic metal powerhouse ANA have returned home from tearing the United States a brand-new one. In what can only be described as a monumental, career-defining milestone, our homegrown champions landed the coveted support slot for the legendary, unmistakable icon of the dark arts himself: Danzig for a run of […]

Wage War emerged from Ocala, Florida, in 2010, beginning under the name Empires before eventually adopting the Wage War name. The band’s current lineup features Briton Bond on lead vocals, Cody Quistad on guitar and clean vocals, Seth Blake on guitar, Chris Gaylord on bass, and Stephen Kluesener on drums. Before their Fearless Records era began, the group released the independent The Fall Of Kings EP in 2011 under the Empires name, offering an early look at the heavy, melodic approach they would continue to develop. After signing with Fearless Records, Wage War introduced themselves to a much wider audience

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Her secret lies behind his broken eyes.

You carry her all alone inside of you.

And you’re still searching for some validation.

Why only find frustration? Well, I don’t know.

Sometimes the body gets treated like evidence. People inspect it, name it, assign meaning to it, and then act surprised when the person living inside has a different account of who they are. When a person spends enough years absorbing that scrutiny, it can become difficult to tell where somebody else’s judgment ends and their own voice begins. That confusion can be especially brutal for a trans person, because acceptance may require untangling identity from shame that was handed to them before they had the language to reject it.

Novelí’s debut single, Mind or Body, begins from inside that argument. The longtime underground DJ, who describes her hybrid of darkwave, synthpop, old-school EBM, Latin freestyle, and related electronic strains as “Maximal Wave,” builds the track from stern machine rhythms, synthetic bass pressure, and melodies that carry the extravagant romanticism of early electronic pop. You can hear traces of Dead or Alive and Depeche Mode in its architecture, alongside the severe physicality of Anhalt EBM and the strange emotional immediacy of a forgotten 1990s game soundtrack playing through cheap speakers in an empty room.

Then Novelí opens her mouth. Her register brings Andrew Eldritch and Peter Murphy immediately to mind, though the visual contradiction is part of the pleasure. Novelí embraces femme-fatale glamour while singing in a bass voice she once regarded as incompatible with womanhood. Her own explanation says everything: “I used to think my voice was too deep for a woman, but I’ve grown to think there’s something kind of sickening about being a bass singer who looks like a femme fatale,”

Mind or Body gets its emotional voltage through lyrics that move through secrecy, frustration, loneliness, scrutiny, and the weary confusion that comes from being forced to interrogate your own existence over and over. The physical body and social expectation become tangled until even the source of pain becomes hard to locate. Novelí leaves room for uncertainty, but she also introduces a far more dangerous possibility: what if the part of yourself you were taught to hate could become beloved?

“Not everyone can relate to the trans experience, but I think almost everyone can relate to feeling like something about you is socially unacceptable, so you feel like you have to carry it alone,” she says. “And ideally, you eventually figure out how to live with it and even embrace it. It’s about entertaining even the tiniest possibility that you can fall in love with the parts of yourself you’ve been hating for a long time.”

Daniel Foerste’s accompanying video pushes that idea into religious horror. Novelí appears as a sacrificial figure who eventually becomes a living altar, drawing on Bauhaus, Siouxsie Sioux, Sopor Aeternus, Giallo, Butoh, religious imagery, and vaporwave unreality. “Society sees trans bodies as something horrific, and I wanted to capture that. We’re so often scapegoated, but I also wanted to show that there can be something divine in us, something sacred.”

Watch the video for Mind or Body below:

Released on the Autumn Equinox and destined for the forthcoming album Transfigure, “Mind or Body” makes transformation feel messy, theatrical, frightening, sensual, and spiritually charged. Novelí has begun her recording career by turning the courtroom inside her head into a nightclub, then placing the accused behind the microphone.

Novelí says the sales will support her gender-affirming care and sustain her artistic practice. Listen to Mind or Body below and order the single here.

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The post “You Carry Her All Alone” — Novelí Turns Self-Discovery Into Darkwave Devotion in Video for Trans Anthem “Mind or Body” appeared first on Post-Punk.com.

PRESIDENT came out swinging. Showing Teeth made sure the room was ready.

At House of Blues Orlando on September 22, the North American Campaign arrived with a sold-out crowd and a shortened bill. Tickets had disappeared before some fans could grab them. Others missed the announcement altogether. Inside, the people who made it got a night worth putting on repeat.

The original lineup had already changed. Cenobia announced her withdrawal on August 28, saying the divines were not in her favor. That left Showing Teeth opening and PRESIDENT headlining, with set times pushed back and two bands carrying the night.

Showing Teeth had another problem to work through. Sickness.

You could forgive an artist for easing off under those circumstances. This set gave the room very little reason to ease off with her. The delivery hit hard, and what started as my first encounter with a band I had never heard or seen became an immediate reason to pay attention. Sometimes an opener gives you time to settle in. Sometimes you leave looking up everything they have released.

This was the second kind.

A preview of the new song “Hell Raiser” sealed it. Even with illness hanging over the performance, Showing Teeth brought enough bite to make that unreleased track a standout. My first impression? Ten out of ten. I want to hear it again.

Then PRESIDENT took over.

No slow build. No waiting around for the songs the room wanted. The hits came early, and the crowd stayed with them from start to finish. That connection was the engine of the set. Each song kept the momentum moving, with no stretch that felt like everyone was waiting for the next recognizable opening.

From my perspective, that is what you watch for. The moment attention turns into movement. The instant a crowd stops observing a performance and starts answering it.

PRESIDENT kept that exchange going.

With only one opener, the night had a different rhythm from the usual stacked touring bill. It worked. Showing Teeth delivered a discovery worth following, and PRESIDENT gave the room a headline set that landed at exactly the right length.

Enough to feel the full hit. Enough to want another round.

Walking out, my verdict was simple. Run it back.

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Rodrigo Pagavino is a composer and guitarist from Barcelona. Pagavino just released his latest single "Velomorph" on August 25th. The track's name emphasizes themes of movement, velocity, and transformation–hence the wordplay between Velocity and Morph. "Velemorph" is also a single leading up to his debut solo guitar album, scheduled for release in October, 2026.

Rodrigo Pagavino recorded the song using a 14-string guitar by Felix Martin who he is endorsed by. The song blends progressive rock, fusion, and electronic elements while using the unique 14-string guitar to cover a more expansive tonal range than a standard 6-string guitar.

Beyond its musical aspect, “Velomorph” serves as a gateway into Rodrigo Pagavino's conceptual universe: a space where listeners can enter his way of experiencing and understanding music. The name itself comes from a play on concepts connecting ideas such as Love, Form, Velocity, and More, reflecting different aspects of this universe and the identity behind the project.

You can watch the official music video for "Velemorph" below.

From the very start of the track, Rodrigo showcases his exceptional guitar talent as he plays his both sides of his double neck 14-string guitar at the same time, as rapid arpeggios fill the mix. As the song kicks in fully, bass and drum grooves are added to support the clean guitar leads.

Despite "Velemorph" lacking vocals, the interplay between bass, guitar, and drums creates a highly melodic and catchy sound as the guitar continues to evolve with speeding leads, gentle chords, and wildly impressive technique taking the spotlight. At just over 5 minutes, the song starts to get pretty crazy past 3 minutes as Pagavino begins to shred on both necks of the guitar at once as rapid solo guitar playing kicks things up a notch and in the music video, the lights begin to flash suddenly.

I get clear rock, prog, and even some blues/jazz influences in the song and despite the simple overall mix compared to many modern songs with dozens of synth tracks, Rodrigo balances simplicity with the complexity of his guitar work, creating a deeply interesting track.

If you enjoy progressive music, instrumental songs, and guitar-driven tracks, Rodrigo Pagavino will be right up your alley. You can stream "Velemorph" available everywhere now.

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Having just wrapped up its 26th edition, AmericanaFest has grown considerable in the years I’ve been going. In the early years a shuttle bus continuously made the rounds between the half dozen or so clubs that were hosting official showcases across the 3-nights of shows (plus the kick-off Awards and Honors event Wednesday night). Now […]

Tony Iommi collected his MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle earlier today, September 30.

The award for the 78-year-old Black Sabbath guitarist was announced in the King’s Birthday Honours back in June: Iommi has been honoured for services to music and to charity.

“What an unbelievable honour to receive an MBE,” Iommi commented in June. “Music has been my life and I’ve been very lucky to share this journey with many amazing people and fans, and I’m very grateful for all the support along the way. It’s been a privilege doing something I love and then to see that music connect with so many over the years. And, to be able to help raise money for charities close to my heart has meant the world to me.”

On a busy day for the legendary guitarist, Iommi has released the second single from his forthcoming solo album From The Dark, scheduled for release on October 23.

Vocalist Jørn Lande says that his maritime-themed lyrics for Stormwatcher tell a powerful story about struggles and sorrow as life voyages from birth to death, and beyond.

“We are the captain of our own vessel,” he says, “a ship crashing through unknown and sometimes challenging waters, always navigating forward, steering steady through every storm, driven by dreams of new horizons and longing for something new.”

Watch the video for Stormwatcher below. And pre-order From The Dark here.

Tony Iommi is on the cover of the new issue of Classic Rock magazine. In an exclusive interview he talks about his new solo record, Black Sabbath’s final show, the death of his dear friend Ozzy Osbourne and much more.

Buy it online here.

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