The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice was in the Swedish capital Thursday for an international conference on...
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Gene Simmons is a busy man. The
legendary KISS founder fills his time with a variety of
projects. There's filming for "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," the
reality show...
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Not much can keep KISS' Paul Stanley from rock 'n' rolling all night and partying every day.
But the rocker did have to bow out of a Southern California...
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Kiss lead singer and guitarist Paul Stanley had to bow out of a Southern California concert because of heart problems before the show, according to his Web...
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Paul Stanley, a singer and
guitarist with rock band Kiss, was forced to pull out of a show
in California on Friday after his heart started beating at more
than twice the...
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Peter Criss has had more than his share of goodbye Kisses.
He's on his third marriage, and his third breakup from Kiss, the glam-rock legends he co-founded 34 years ago....
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He didn't have the onstage theatrics of Ace Frehley or the fret fireworks of Vinnie Vincent, but Mark St. John was more than a foot solder in the KISS Army. The...
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Vinnie Vincent won't be raking it in for Lick It Up.
On the first day of the U.S. Supreme Court's new term, the Big
9 declined to consider a lower court's dismissal of...
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Ex-Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent lost a Supreme Court appeal Monday in a dispute over royalties with his former bandmates.
Justices declined to consider lower court...
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Kiss vocalist/guitarist Paul Stanley
is preparing to release his first solo album since his
self-titled 1978 debut.
"Live To Win" is due October 24 from Universal's New...
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Fans of KISS are mobilizing over a perceived diss.
Some 500 aficionados of the makeup-happy, blood-spewing metal gods
descended upon the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and...
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About 200 Kiss fans protested Saturday in front of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to demand that the band be inducted into the hall.
Fans, some from as far away...
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Is an all-new Kiss on the horizon, one that doesn't have any original members? It's possible, according to the band's manager. According to the New York Times, Kiss manager...
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A Kiss tribute album featuring members of Twisted Sister, Styx, Whitesnake, and other bands will be released April 27. It's called Spin The Bottle - A Tribute To Kiss, and...
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Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick is feeling better after being shot last week in West Hollywood, California. He's planning on keeping up his schedule of appearances for...
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Bruce Kulick, the guitarist in the current version of Grand Funk Railroad, is recovering from a pair of gunshot wounds he received early Thursday morning (October 16) in...
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Kiss singer-bassist Gene Simmons and singer-guitarist Paul Stanley were handed subpoenas before their show with Aerosmith on Friday (September 26) at the Tweeter Center in...
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Kiss singer-bassist Gene Simmons told New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams that he's been banned from any future signing events at the Borders bookstore chain....
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The first two arena dates for Kiss and Aerosmith have been announced. The bands will bring their coheadlining tour to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on October 24...
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Aerosmith and Kiss launched their coheadlining tour on Saturday (August 2) at the Ctnow.com Meadows Music Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Befitting their status as...
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The fans aren't the only ones happy about the Kiss/Aerosmith coheadlining tour, which starts Saturday (August 2) in Hartford, Connecticut. The musicians are just as...
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Gene Simmons lays it all out on the table in his new book, Sex Money Kiss. The singer-bassist for Kiss has filled the book with his observations on life and the three most...
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Kiss's Paul Stanley has joined band mate Gene Simmons in announcing plans for a solo project. The album will be Stanley's first solo release in 25 years and he hopes to have...
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Ace Frehley had to cancel his Thursday (June 19) appearance at Rock And Roll Fantasy Camp, the event which brings together non-professionals with well-known musicians for a...
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Kiss will release its official biography in the fall. It's called Kiss: Behind The Mask, and it features recollections from the band and photographs from the Kiss archives,...
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Kiss is taking matters into its own hands with the release of The Kiss Symphony: Alive IV album on July 22. The set will be issued on Kiss Records through Sanctuary Records,...
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The official announcement for the Aerosmith/Kiss summer tour will be made Friday (April 18). The tour is expected to begin on August 2 in Hartford, Connecticut, and will run...
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The tragedy at last week's Great White show in Rhode Island won't be the end of pyro at rock concerts. That's the word from Kiss's Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, two guys...
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The long-rumored Aerosmith/Kiss tour is a go. Early word is that the bands will be on the road for about 40 dates between August and October, playing amphitheaters and...
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The joint Aerosmith and Kiss tour is apparently back on for this summer. Promoters are reporting that the two bands are currently putting together an itinerary that is...
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When Johnny Ramone started conceptualizing the upcoming tribute album to his former band, We're A Happy Family--A Tribute To The Ramones, he thought that Bruce Springsteen...
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Kiss has formally announced its Australian concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for early 2003. As reported by LAUNCH last week, the group will perform on February...
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Kiss is apparently not yet done rocking-and-rolling all night and partying every day, despite previous announcements to the contrary. In a new posting on the band's official...
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Kiss has recorded a version of "Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?" for an upcoming Ramones tribute album.
In a message on the band's official website (kissonline.com),...
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The first issue of Gene Simmons Tongue Magazine is now on newsstands. The magazine features Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, Donna D'Errico, and...
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Kiss bassist Gene Simmons had an official release party for Gene Simmons Tongue Magazine on Wednesday night (June 5) at Studio 54 in New York City. The party featured...
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The Kiss marketing juggernaut is finally moving into its fans' most intimate places. Kiss has finalized a deal with Condomania Inc. to produce a line of Kiss...
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It looks like the long-awaited Kiss live album will finally be released. LAUNCH has learned that Alive IV, which was expected to come out when Kiss began its Farewell tour...
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In his new autobiography Kiss And Make-Up, Kiss co-founder Gene Simmons writes extensively about his upbringing in Israel, where he was born Chaim Witz in Haifa. Not...
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Kiss just released Box Set, which contains some of the band's biggest hits and rare demos. The group's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley readily admit that it was the Beatles...
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Kiss was one of the best in-store appearances in the history of the Greenwich Village Tower Records in New York City, according to an employee at the store. More than 900...
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The members of Kiss have previously revealed to LAUNCH their intentions to continue the farewell tour they began last year into 2002, with no firm end yet in sight, although...
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Kiss had to pull out of the October 21 United We Stand benefit concert in Washington, D.C., because of singer-guitarist Paul Stanley's need for hip surgery. However, Stanley...
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Kiss singer-bassist Gene Simmons entered the world of academia last week when he addressed a class at the U.C.L.A. Extension. The three-hour course, titled "There's No...
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Carole King, Kiss, Russell Simmons, and Linda Moran have been announced as the recipients of the New York chapter of the Recording Academy's 2001 New York Heroes Award. The...
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November 20 is the release date for Kiss: The Box Set, a career-spanning anthology that features 94 Kiss band and solo recordings across five discs, including 30 previously...
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Kiss fans, get your holiday gift lists ready--the band's long-awaited boxed set comes out in the fall. Originally planned for release in time for Halloween, the four-CD,...
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Kiss's marketing plans have taken on a whole new life--an afterlife, actually. The band has signed an agreement with Dallas-based WhiteLight to sell an official Kiss Kasket,...
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It's been two months since Kiss played the last show on its Farewell Tour in Australia, but since then no new dates have been announced. Singer-bassist Gene Simmons said the...
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Kiss singer-bassist Gene Simmons is taking advantage of the group's current down time by moving forward with production on a movie based on the life of Neil Bogart, the...
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When Kiss lead guitarist and singer Ace Frehley is inducted into the Bronx (New York) Walk Of Fame this weekend, it will be more than just another honor to him. Frehley, who...
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The Kiss farewell tour still has a few more stops to make before it's all over, according to Gene Simmons. Simmons participated in a live chat session with Australia's...
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Pamela Bowen Stanley, the wife of Paul Stanley, is seeking a divorce from the Kiss lead singer and guitarist. She filed a motion in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday...
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The first photo of returning Kiss drummer Eric Singer in full Peter Criss regalia has been released. Singer will wear the cat makeup and costume, as well as a black wig to...
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It appears that Eric Singer will wear the "cat" makeup and costume made famous by Peter Criss when Kiss resumes its farewell tour in Japan and Australia. Singer, the blond...
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"The Cat" is out of the bag: Peter Criss, a founding member of Kiss, has left the group in advance of its farewell trek to Japan and Australia. The drummer and singer is...
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It looks like the last Kiss gig will be in...Australia? Kiss has confirmed a concert for, appropriately enough, Good Friday (April 13) at the 35,000-seat Carrara Stadium on...
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After taking a good chunk of the summer off, Kiss is back in action with its farewell tour. The question now is when will the legendary hard rockers actually say farewell?...
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Fans just aren't ready to say goodbye to Kiss. Although sources had been reporting that the band's farewell tour would wrap in late September at New York City's Madison...
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For those who were wondering, Kiss still plans to call it quits at the end of its current farewell tour, which is reportedly slated to wrap with a multi-night stand at...
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The Kiss farewell tour, currently winding its way across the United States, has been extended into the fall and will wrap up September 25 after a four-night run at Madison...
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Ted Nugent is not a guy who likes to play second fiddle to anyone, so it surprised many of his fans and associates this year when he agreed to be a support act on the Kiss...
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Looks like Gene Simmons, Kiss's long-tongued bassist and co-founder, will be the first member of the band to officially kiss and tell. Simmons has reportedly signed a deal...
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Ticket sales for the
Kiss Farewell Tour have been so good that a few new dates have now been added to the itinerary. The latest city to be added to the tour is...
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A fan attending Thursday's (March 23) Kiss concert at California's Oakland Arena fell to his death from an upper balcony. Shawn Timothy Stubblefield, 36, of Calistoga...
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Never ones to miss a marketing opportunity,
Kiss will be featured in a TV commercial during the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday (March 26). The spot is for Pepsi, and...
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Kiss opened its Farewell Tour Saturday night (March 11) at the Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion in Phoenix, Ariz. In front of approximately 17,000 fans at the 20,000-seat...
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The Kiss farewell tour opens Saturday (March 11) in Phoenix, marking the beginning of a jaunt that will take the famously theatrical group around North America into the...
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In recent years, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation has passed over a number of hard rock heroes -- including Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Queen, the MC5,...
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Songwriter Stan Penridge has filed a suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against
Kiss, Universal Music Group, Polygram Holdings Inc., Polygram Records, Mercury...
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Never ones to pass up a good marketing opportunity, Kiss has signed on to do a new commercial for Pepsi. The quartet is about to step in front of the cameras for the...
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Kiss
has officially released the dates for the first leg of its Farewell Tour. Beginning March 11 in Phoenix, the current list of dates will take the original lineup of...
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The forthcoming
Kiss farewell tour will be a huge event, especially if
Ted Nugent and
Skid Row sign on as the opening acts. Although an "official" announcement hasn't...
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Kiss singer-bassist Gene Simmons has gone on record as saying the band will tour this year, confirming rumors that have been flying for months. During an interview with...
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Kiss has confirmed opening acts for its New Year's Eve show, and Lit was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the opening acts.
Lit singer A.J. Popoff tells LAUNCH that...
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Kiss has now made it official--the band will be playing BC Place in Vancouver, B.C. on New Year's Eve (LAUNCH, 11/4). Tickets for the show go on sale on Saturday (Nov. 13)...
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Kiss is almost ready to announce its performance plans for New Year's Eve. By early next week, Kiss will likely announce that it will play in Vancouver, British Columbia at...
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A new ad campaign from the Partnership For A Drug-Free America is using Kiss to illustrate the cost of drug use. The ads say drug use costs the U.S. more than $110 billion...
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Just last week, Kiss made the move to the big screen with Detroit Rock City (LAUNCH, 8/13). Now the group is stepping into the wrestling ring. Well, not literally: Gene...
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Detroit Rock City, a comedy about four Ohio youths (played by Edward Furlong, Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, and Sam Huntington) and their quest to go to a 1978 Kiss...
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Last night (Aug. 9), a giant outdoor party was held in Los Angeles to celebrate the world premiere of Detroit Rock City, a new movie about four long-haired '70s teens on a...
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If you want to rock 'n' roll all night, you'll need to pick up the soundtrack to Detroit Rock City when it hits shelves Aug. 3 on Mercury Records. Kiss, the band at the...
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Alanis Morissette recently taped a video for her new single, "So Pure," which will premiere when the track hits radio on June 29.
Morissette directed the clip, which...
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Details are continuing to emerge about the soundtrack to Detroit Rock City, the upcoming film about four teenagers in 1978 who lose their Kiss concert tickets for a show at...
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Corporate advertisers like Budweiser and M&Ms paid the Fox television network a record $1.6-million for 30-second commercials during Sunday's Super Bowl contest from Miami,...
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Marilyn Manson's stay at No. 1 was a short one. After only one week at the top, Manson's Mechanical Animals slips down to No. 5, with sales of 98,000. Manson's more than...
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In a rock 'n' roll spectacle the likes of which Hollywood Blvd. hasn't seen since the Spice Girls rolled up to the premiere of Spice World on a double-decker bus (read...
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What's the latest trend in rock? Would you believe the formation of rock star-sponsored Internet Service Providers?
David Bowie broke new ground earlier this year with the...
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That is the question facing the music industry, and it's such a concern that the Recording Academy (he organization that stages the annual Grammy Awards) held a pow-wow...
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Tongue-waggling bassist Gene
Simmons promises Kiss will be back on the road in 1998 with "the tour of tours," and a giant free July 4th concert, location...
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A press conference being held today at the Hard Rock Cafe in Los Angeles by the Musicians' Assistance Program (MAP) and Partnership For A Drug-Free America (PFDA) promises...
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Heavy metal titans Kiss will release their new album, Carnival Of Souls, on October 28th, but it won't feature the original lineup that made box office history with their...
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Independent record label Tony Nicole Tony (TNT) Records--who signed original Kiss drummer Peter Criss to a solo deal before last year's mega-hyped Kiss reunion--filed a...
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Those of you who still can't get enough of Kiss--even after the Kiss reunion tour, Kiss tribute album, $100-ticket Kiss convention, Kiss credit card and new line of...
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Guitarist Vinnie Vincent, who played with Kiss (in the cosmetic-free line-up) from 1982 to 1984 before moving on to his own Vinnie Vincent Invasion, is suing his former...
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