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Nita Strauss: “Any time you’re playing guitar, you’re improving, no matter what it is – whether you’re playing power chords or technical metal”
By Alison Richter published
The Ibanez signature artist made the very public shift from Alice Cooper’s band to Demi Lovato’s band this year, but she’s so much more than “someone else’s guitar player”

Justin Hawkins: “What?! Split harmonics on the bass?”
By Nick Wells published
The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins reacts to the fast and furious licks of Billy Sheehan and Richie Kotzen of rock supergroup The Winery Dogs

Kane Roberts on rejoining the Alice Cooper band following Nita Strauss's departure, adjusting to a Kemper and the revival of his fabled machine gun guitar
By Andrew Daly published
It was decades since Roberts had assumed the role of six-string sideman to one of rock's most towering figures. But that didn't stop him from throwing himself at the opportunity to accompany Cooper on the shock rock legend's recent US trek

Watch Nita Strauss rejoin Alice Cooper – and play a Jackson Jeff Loomis signature Kelly – at Colorado show
By Matt Owen published
Strauss seamlessly slipped her Cooper cap back on for the performance alongside Kane Roberts and Tommy Henriksen

Nita Strauss on lighting Demi Lovato’s guitar fire and how fresh tones – and the 2nd position – are helping her introduce shredding solos to new audiences
By Amit Sharma published
The Hurricane talks tutoring the pop superstar and recruiting her to the ranks of Ibanez, and why her new solo single Summer Storm embodies everything she is about as a player

Nita Strauss hints at future return to Alice Cooper’s band: “Everyone’s saying it’s a ‘departure’ but I don’t feel, necessarily, that I left”
By Matt Owen published
“Depending on what the schedule looks like next year, I may have the chance to come back,” said the Ibanez signature artist, who recently joined Demi Lovato's touring band

The 30 greatest rock guitar albums of 1972
By Greg Prato published
In '72, Alice Cooper and Bowie grew ever more theatrical while the riffs of Iommi, Blackmore and co got bigger. 50 years on, we celebrate the best from a banner year for rock

Alice Cooper reenlists former lead guitarist Kane Roberts for fall tour
By Matt Owen published
Roberts’ return comes after Cooper’s former resident shred star Nita Strauss announced her departure from the lineup earlier this week

Nita Strauss announces departure from Alice Cooper's band, cancels solo 2022 festival appearances
By Jackson Maxwell published
Strauss announced the end of her eight-year tenure in Cooper's band on social media, saying that she was "forever thankful" for her time with the rock legend

Nita Strauss recalls a male fan throwing his sweaty boxer shorts at her during an Alice Cooper concert
By Sam Roche published
One of Strauss's bandmates hurled the underwear back into the crowd, where they landed on another fan's face. “I actually fell down from laughing so hard,” the guitarist remembers
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