New golf show ‘Rolling the Rock with Alice Cooper and Rocco Mediate’ coming to SiriusXM

The duo say it’ll be a “unique conversation at the junction of entertainment and golf.”

Rock legend Alice Cooper and six-time PGA Tour winner Rocco Mediate have announced a new golf show on SiriusXM. Right out of the box, it has a pretty great name: “Rolling the Rock with Alice Cooper and Rocco Mediate.”

The duo plan to center their content around “a unique conversation at the junction of entertainment and golf.” The show starts July 2 exclusively on the SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio channel.

Mediate is best known for his Torrey Pines playoff duel against Tiger Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open.

Cooper took up golf close to 50 years ago on his road to alcohol addition recovery. He frequently boasts about playing six times a week, even during his rock tours. He even gave his 2007 autobiography the title “Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.”

The two are frequent partners on the golf course, as well.

Rocco Mediate
Rocco Mediate speaks during his SiriusXM PGA Tour radio show.

“Rocco asked me to do this show with him, talking about rock and golf, and it could not be a more perfect fit,” said Cooper in a statement released by SiriusXM. “We’ve known each other a long time. We’ve played in many tournaments together. He’s a frustrated rocker and I’m a frustrated golfer. It’s a match made on the fairway to heaven. It’s an anything-goes show that is all improv. We have no idea what we’re going to talk about until we start talking. We’re quite literally just ‘rolling the rock.'”

In addition to this new show, Mediate has his own show called “The Rocco Hour” on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio.

Cooper hosts a “Nights with Alice Cooper” on Phoenix rock station KDKB.

Alice Cooper debuts new Red Wings-inspired track, and it’s actually not bad

To Alice Cooper, no sport resembles rock and roll more than hockey.

Alice Cooper is debuting a new song inspired by the Detroit Red Wings fittingly titled, “Go Wings Go,” which is getting a national premiere when Detroit takes on the Tampa Bay Lightning Sunday afternoon on NBC.

Cooper has been a hockey buff since he was a young boy growing up in Detroit. To him, no sport resembles rock and roll more than hockey.

Cooper, a longtime resident of Arizona, has gone to countless Coyotes games every year. But while he’s rooted for the Coyotes, he grew up a Red Wings fan.

“I grew up in Hockeytown and when I was ‘this tall,’ my dad would take me to see Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk and Ted Lindsay and those guys,” Cooper said back in 2012. “Those were rough guys; there was blood on the ice every night.”

Take a look at a sneak peek of Cooper’s new track, which is actually quite catchy, at least to this Red Wings fan.

The reaction, as expected, was mixed. Some fans loved it…

While others weren’t a fan, which could have something to do with the fact it’s a song about the Red Wings.

While it might feel a little random that Cooper debuted a Red Wings-themed song, remember that, to him, hockey is the rock and roll of sports.

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