Alice Doesn't Live Here

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 US #1 Billion Dollar Babies (1973). By 1974, the band had risen to the upper echelon of rock stardom… and then, it dissolved.

Alice Cooper’s live shows are legendary for their sense of rock theater and sheer visual spectacle. This latest addition to our range of titles from the renowned Montreux Festival catches Alice Cooper at his very best. Underpinning the visual assault has always been a collection of some of the best rock songs around delivered by one of the all-time great frontmen. This show includes tracks from across his career right up to most recent album Dirty Diamonds, and incorporating all the classics you would expect.

Soul era-inspired U.K. vocalist Alice Russell, if anything a child of Chaka Khan, became increasingly known throughout the early 2000s with her contributions to recordings from Bah Samba, Quantic, TM Juke, and Nostalgia 77, and she also released some ambitious albums for the Tru Thoughts label. Under the Munka Moon (2004) and My Favourite Letters (2005) jumped over several pigeonholes from track to track, at various times falling in line with later 4hero (à la Creating Patterns and Play with the Changes), throwback funk, folk-soul, and modern organic R&B.

Luke Bryan is the epitome of an easygoing contemporary country superstar. He began his ascent as an amiable ambassador of rural identity in the late 2000s, a few years ahead of the format’s turn towards beat-driven production and hip-hop swagger, and adjusted to those trends so successfully that his gregarious party tunes ruled the country charts throughout the 2010s. Emerging on the other end of that run with his seventh studio album Born Here Live Here Die Here, Bryan’s easing into another transition. He still makes plenty of room for pop-informed bite in tracks like “What She Wants Tonight,” with its gleaming, night-on-the-town hook, “One Margarita,” with its breezy beachfront cadence and subtly metallic effects, and “Down to One,” whose romantic nostalgia is layered with icy synths and glassy guitar tones.