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NITA STRAUSS Wants To 'Say Something Important' With Her Next Solo Album
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, is continuing to use the coronavirus downtime to complete work on her sophomore solo album. A number of artists have seen their concert dates drop off as they're either canceled or postponed in the wake of the global spre...April 11, 2020
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NITA STRAUSS Will Use Coronavirus Downtime To Finish Her Second Solo Album
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, says that she will use the coronavirus downtime to complete work on her sophomore solo album. A number of artists have seen their concert dates drop off as they're either canceled or postponed in the wake of the global sp...March 16, 2020
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NITA STRAUSS: Second Solo Album Is 'Very Well On The Way'
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, has confirmed that her second solo album is "very well on the way." Strauss's upcoming disc, which is tentatively due in late 2020, will be the follow-up to her first solo album, "Controlled Chaos", released in 2018 via S...March 2, 2020
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NITA STRAUSS Says NEIL PEART's Death Was 'A Huge Loss' To Rock Community
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, has commented on the passing of Neil Peart, who died on January 7 in Santa Monica, California after a three-year battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. The iconic RUSH drummer was 67 years old. Stra...January 25, 2020
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Watch NITA STRAUSS Shred At This Year's NAMM
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, was was again in attendance at this year's NAMM convention in Anaheim, California for the launch of the latest additions to the Ibanez Nita Strauss signature JIVA family: the new JIVA X, JIVA10 and JIVA Junior models. Vid...January 22, 2020
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NITA STRAUSS: 'I Always Thought That Instrumental Music Was For 'Better Guitar Players' Than Me'
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, has admitted that she initially had some reservations about putting out an album of instrumentals with her debut solo LP, last year's "Controlled Chaos". "I always thought that instrumental music was for 'better guitar pl...December 30, 2019
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NITA STRAUSS Releases Music Video For 'Alegria'
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, has released the official music video for the song "Alegria". The track is taken from her first solo album, "Controlled Chaos", which was released in November 2018 via Sumerian Records. Nita recently confirmed that her s...December 13, 2019
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TOOL To Return To Australia And New Zealand For First Time In Six Years
Frontier Touring has announced the return of triple Grammy Award-winning Californian rockers TOOL, performing in arenas across Australia and New Zealand in February 2020 — their first shows in both countries in seven years. The tour comes off the back of the band’s critically-acclaimed fifth studio...November 14, 2019
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NITA STRAUSS's Second Solo Album 'Is Very Much On The Way'
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, says that her second solo album "is very much on the way." Strauss's upcoming disc, which is tentatively due in late 2020, will be the follow-up to her first solo album, "Controlled Chaos", released last year via Sumerian...October 29, 2019
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NITA STRAUSS Is Working On Her Second Solo Album
Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, has revealed to Heavy1 TV that she has already begun working on the follow-up to her first solo album, "Controlled Chaos", which came out last year. "I wrote the majority of 'Controlled Chaos' while I was on the previous...September 22, 2019
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Desert Rock Veterans Unite To Form BIG SCENIC NOWHERE
From the brain trust of revered desert rock veterans Gary Arce (YAWNING MAN) and Bob Balch (FU MANCHU) comes the new psychedelic-stoner rock outfit BIG SCENIC NOWHERE. The band will release its debut EP, "Dying On The Mountain", on September 13 via Blues Funeral Recordings. As friends and pioneering...August 21, 2019
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Listen To New OBITUARY Song 'A Dying World'
"Adult Swim Singles" has teamed with death metal progenitors OBITUARY for the 47th installment of the current program. "A Dying World" is the first new song from the massively influential quintet since its self-titled tenth album's release by Relapse Records. The standalone new single couples its in...July 10, 2019
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OBITUARY To Tour North America With ABBATH
Florida death metal legends OBITUARY will embark on a North American headlining tour in the fall. Support on the 24-date trek will come from ABBATH, MIDNIGHT and DEVIL MASTER. The tour will kick off on September 27 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and end on October 25 in Atlanta, Georgia. Tickets will go...June 26, 2019
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NITA STRAUSS Says EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE Was ‘A Real Trailblazer For Women In Music'
A day after joining EVANESCENCE onstage for a rendition of "Disappear" at this year's Epicenter festival in North Carolina, ALICE COOPER guitarist Nita Strauss praised frontwoman Amy Lee for her contributions to rock music. "It was a dream," Strauss told Metal Nexus (video below). "Amy Lee and EVAN...June 23, 2019
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NITA STRAUSS On 'Beauty' Of Instrumental Music: 'The Songs Can Mean Whatever You Need Them To Mean'
ALICE COOPER guitarist Nita Strauss recently spoke with Sara of the Philadelphia radio station 93.3 WMMR. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the origins of her "Hurricane" nickname: Nita: "It actually came from the first write-...June 15, 2019
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