The music icon and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will bring his band’s “thrilling theatrics” to North Texas in April. And his Dallas music scene ties are pretty unique.

IRVING, Texas — We’re not worthy!

Last month, horror music icon and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper announced that he will be bringing his band’s Alice’s Attic tour to Irving this spring.

The band will perform at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory on April 15. Tickets are already available.

Cooper’s ties to North Texas are noteworthy.

In October 2015, he and the members of his original band’s lineup performed a surprise in-store reunion concert in Dallas at the old Greenville Avenue location of Good Records — an event orchestrated by the late Chris Penn, one of the store’s co-owners, who passed in April 2025 just weeks after becoming paralyzed following a fall off of a ladder while trying to install promotional material at the store’s current Garland Road location. 

It was the first performance from the original Alice Cooper band lineup following its breakup in 1974.

Penn, a true superfan of the band, originally scheduled a book signing for the band’s bass guitarist, Dennis Dunaway, and his then-recently published “Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!” memoir looking back on the band’s earlier days. But, with Alice Cooper’s current iteration slated to open for Motley Crue in Dallas just one night after the signing, Penn was able to corral the original lineup — including frontman Cooper himself — for an eight-song performance and Q&A sessions to go along with the book signing. 

According to some reports, as many as 200 people filled the aisles of the modestly sized record store for the performance.

A Penn-produced 2019 documentary called “Live from the Astroturf, Alice Cooper,” that was directed by North Texas filmmaker Steven Gaddis, covered Penn’s efforts to pull the event together and featured footage from the band’s performance as well. 

The performance was additionally released as a live album by the label arm of Good Records in 2018, and the record eventually earned a global release in 2022.

The band’s Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory performance on April 15 is its first in the region since Penn’s passing.