ALICE COOPER introduces new guitarist ANNA CARA
03-04-2026
Alice Cooper has introduced British guitarist Anna Cara in place of his longtime guitarist Nita Strauss, who announced earlier this year that she was taking a break to welcome her first child this summer.
22-year-old Anna, from Newcastle, England, has previously worked with Marc Storace (from the Swiss band KROKUS) and Tommy Henriksen (guitarist with both Alice and the HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES). She has built an Instagram following with her videos.
Anna madde her debut on April 2, running for 3 days, with Alice at his special “Welcome To Our Nightmare” shows in Las Vegas. These unique shows are a collaboration with illusionist Criss Angel and take place in his theatre at Planet Hollywood.
Alice has his U.S. “Alice’s Attic” tour April 14 through May 9, and then returns to Las Vegas May 22-24 for three more “Welcome To Our Nightmare” shows with Criss Angel.
Keeping his usual busy schedule, Alice then has a European “Alice’s Attic” tour June 13-July 12, and promises more shows in the fall.
Said Alice: “Nita found a brilliant British female guitarist to fill in for her while she is on maternity leave. Anna Cara is a beautiful dynamic shredder in the vein of Nita but with a style of her own. She will fit in with our gang perfectly while Nita is away and we can’t wait for the sick things to meet her. Welcome to the show, Anna!”
Anna, for her part, said, “This is like a dream come true, to join Alice and his great band. Back when I started playing guitar at 14, I was watching Alice Cooper live shows on YouTube dreaming of joining one day! Nita Strauss is a tough act to follow, and she’s been so encouraging to me this past month, so I am looking forward to showing everyone who I am and what I can do.”
Nita said: “When I was asked in an interview who I thought was the best up-and-coming guitarist, I had no hesitation in answering ‘Anna Cara.’ Anna‘s precision and soulful, emotional playing will make her an amazing asset to the Cooper tour!
“Working with Alice for 12 years has been the experience of a lifetime and I look forward to seeing you all back on the road (with a +1 along for the ride!) Until that time comes, I know that the show is in good hands and the fans are in for a treat!”
Strauss has been playing with Cooper since 2014 when she replaced Australian musician and former Michael Jackson player Orianthi. She joined Alice in time for a mammoth MÖTLEY CRÜE tour. She was recommended to Cooper by the legendary rocker’s former bass player and WINGER frontman Kip Winger.
Alice Cooper has announced the release of his definitive autobiography, “Devil On My Shoulder”, published by Ebury Spotlight on October 8, 2026. This long-awaited autobiography finally lifts the lid on one of the greatest lives in music.
Building on over sixty years of rock folklore, Cooper will support the book’s launch with an intimate eight-date U.K. speaking tour. Each evening will feature the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee in conversation with a special guest moderator, followed by an audience question-and-answer session, offering fans a rare glimpse behind the greasepaint and guillotines.
There are two seemingly irreconcilable Alice Coopers — the murderous, morally corrupt theatrical character who threatened the moral fibre of the western world… and the man who plays him, a sober pastor’s son who has been happily married for 50 years. Along the way, the two became schizophrenically intertwined. And in a haze of pioneering rock and roll, alcohol, drugs, iconic songs and wild gigs, guillotines, slaughtered chickens, legendary friends, rumors, snakes, Ouija boards, surrealism, house fires and car crashes — they nearly killed each other.
Cooper says: “Alice is still on tour around the world today, a proper senile delinquent playing hundreds of gigs every year, while I myself am reformed. And with the benefit of hindsight and a certain maturity, I’d like to describe our journey to Hell and back together, because it’s not only rock stars who can lose their way.”
In the Sixties and early Seventies, Alice Cooper was simply a rock group, but as their lead singer, Vincent Damon Furnier, developed his modern-day Grand Guignol character, Alice Cooper became his stage name. Then, on a wave of global success, he legally changed it to his own.
Cooper says: “I was born Vincent Damon Furnier but, seduced by my character’s reputation, changed my name legally to Alice Cooper, and in the process lost sight of who I really was. The mild-mannered, all-American boy I’d once been became a monster and a mortal danger to himself.”
With a career spanning six decades, Alice‘s story features witty, intimate anecdotes featuring Salvador Dalí, Bob Hope, John Lennon, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Gerald Ford, Andy Warhol, Tiger Woods, to name a few, but he’s also an acute observer of dysfunction and despair, wildness and criminality, urges and addictions, transgressions and human goodness. And so he tells his story from both perspectives: angel on one shoulder, devil on the other.
Cooper says: “Me and Alice were getting creative with the truth long before the age of ‘fake news’. Now, after over thirty records and sixty-plus years of fibs and fabrications, I think it’s time to sort the truth from the rumors and lies.”
“Devil On My Shoulder” is the definitive memoir from one of the most iconic music artists of our generation.
“Devil On My Shoulder” U.K. book tour dates:
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
For the first time in over 50 years, the surviving members of the original ALICE COOPER band — singer Alice Cooper, guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith — have reunited to release a brand-new studio album, “The Revenge Of Alice Cooper”, on July 25 via earMUSIC.
This highly anticipated album is heralded as the successor to their iconic records “School’s Out”, “Billion Dollar Babies”, “Love It to Death” and “Killer”.
The second single from the album, “Wild Ones”, is out now.
Watch “Wild Ones” below.
Inspired by the iconic 1953 film “The Wild One” starring Marlon Brando, the track captures the same defiant spirit that once shocked middle America and defined a generation. With snarling guitars, pounding drums, and Alice‘s unmistakable snarl front and center, “Wild Ones” isn’t just a song; it’s a statement.
Watch the previously released “Black Mamba” below.
Due on July 25 via earMUSIC, “The Revenge Of Alice Cooper” also includes a special appearance by late COOPER guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997 at the age of 49. The song “What Happened To You” was built from the riff on an old demo tape Dunaway and Buxton made together and the limited-edition box set bonus track “Return Of The Spiders 2025” is an updated remix of a track from the COOPER group’s second album, 1970’s “Easy Action”.
“The Revenge Of Alice Cooper” was produced by longtime Alice Cooper collaborator Bob Ezrin, who worked with the COOPER group on 1971’s “Killers”, 1972’s “School’s Out” and 1973’s “Billion Dollar Babies”, and who has helmed a number of albums that Cooper released as a solo artist.
The 14-song album’s first single, “Black Mamba”, will debut on Tuesday, April 22 on Cooper‘s syndicated radio show “Alice’s Attic”. The track features a guest appearance by THE DOORS‘ Robby Krieger.
Cooper told Billboard that making a new album with his original bandmates “was very much like this was our next album after (1973’s) ‘Muscle Of Love’, just like, ‘Okay, this is the next album.’ Isn’t that funny after 50 years? All of a sudden it just falls into place.”
Ezrin said about the making of “The Revenge Of Alice Cooper”: “None of them has changed much as a person. Obviously, everyone’s older and more mature and more settled, but when we all get together and I watch the interplay between them, it’s like they just walked out of high school and were hanging out in the local cafe. They just revert to type. They revert to who they were as kids when the first got together… and make music together like they did 50-some years ago.”
As for the possibility of the original COOPER band hitting the road again, Alice said: “We haven’t even gotten to that point yet. I don’t really see it being a full-out tour; it would be very, very hard, I think, if you haven’t done it for a long time. But I could see it being a feature, like going into certain cities — Detroit, New York, L.A., London maybe, and doing a half-hour or 40 minutes in a club or something. We always leave those things open, and if it looks feasible, then we do it.”
“The Revenge of Alice Cooper” track listing:
01. Black Mamba
02. Wild Ones
03. Up All Night
04. Kill The Flies
05. One Night Stand
06. Blood On The Sun
07. Crap That Gets In The Way Of Your Dreams
08. Famous Face
09. Money Screams
10. What A Syd
11. Inter Galactic Vagabond Blues
12. What Happened To You
13. I Ain’t Done Wrong
14. See You On The Other Side
15. Return of the Spiders 2025 (bonus track)
16. Titanic Overunderture (bonus track)
Formed in 1968, the original ALICE COOPER band forged a theatrical brand of hard rock that was destined to shock and had never been seen before. Within five years, they would release no fewer than seven studio albums, amongst them their international breakthrough “School’s Out” (including the Top 10 hit of the same name) and the U.S. No. 1 “Billion Dollar Babies” (1973). By 1974, the band had risen to the upper echelon of rock stardom… and then it dissolved.
In October 2015, over 40 years later, record store owner and superfan Chris Penn convinced the original lineup to reunite for a very special performance at Good Records, his record store in Dallas, Texas. Alice, Michael, Dennis and Neal were joined on stage by Alice‘s current guitarist Ryan Roxie (standing in for Buxton).
Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors. He continues to tour regularly, performing shows worldwide with the dark and horror-themed theatrics that he’s best known for. With a schedule that includes six months each year on the road, Cooper brings his own brand of rock psycho-drama to fans both old and new, enjoying it as much as the audience does. Known as the architect of shock rock, Cooper (in both the original ALICE COOPER band and as a solo artist) has rattled the cages and undermined the authority of generations of guardians of the status quo, continuing to surprise fans and exude danger at every turn, like a great horror movie, even in an era where mainstream media can present real-life shocking images.
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