Alice Cooper

Being proudly provocative has always been part of rock 'n' roll -- from the music's earliest days, when simply shaking one's hips on television was enough to send middle-aged Americans into a righteous lather, the formula for some of the best rock has been one part rhythm, one part volume, and one part shock. This has also been true for album covers, which some of rock's most forward-thinking perf

It's always hard for a sequel to recapture the excitement of whatever made the original great, but give Alice Cooper credit -- he's doing whatever he can to convince fans that his upcoming album, a sequel to his classic 'Welcome to My Nightmare,' is something special. Cooper reunited with the original Alice Cooper Band for a few tracks on the new 'Nightmare' and even enlisted his old producer, Bob

For alt-rock fans with long memories, Johnny Depp isn't just a world-famous actor, he's also the guy who played guitar and bass for Butthole Surfer frontman Gibby Haynes' short-lived group P. But for pretty much everyone else, the sight of Depp rocking out with Alice Cooper on a London stage comes as a shock. Depp joined Cooper for the latter's show in London's 100 Club over the weekend, an appear