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October 23-25 Las Vegas—Shock rock icon and innovative showman Alice Cooper brings his Theatre of Death Tour to The Orleans Showroom for three nights, October 23, 24 and 25—just in time for Halloween. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood and boa constrictors, Alice Cooper has drawn inspiration from horror films, vaudeville, heavy metal and garage rock to create a theatrical event that showcases his vast music catalogue. Alice Cooper began his career in 1

So the music website Pitchfork unloaded its top 500 songs from the last ten years, and it was a mix of mainstream mediocrity, desperate hipsterism, and legitimate inspiration. For every great choice they made (say, Goldfrapp), they immediately canceled it out with some horrible wrist-slitting trash (Britney, Justin, more Britney). But, rather than rag on Pitchfork (I picture their contributors looking like homelier versions of Michael Cera), which is an otherwise pretty good site despite its eas

Let’s talk about soul in music. If we keep in place the dividing lines that preconceptions and tradition tend to place between artists and genres circumscribed, by some authority, never to touch, we equate soul with Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye and the like (see also the perceived necessity of gospel as a source of inspiration, not with sad-eyed Englishmen adrift in the wake of the punk era. Since many people often claim that Ian Curtis is trying to make his voice sound lower than it actually