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2010-02-23T20:57:28Z

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Kiss ready to cram outrageous spectacle into small theater

2010-02-23T23:42:32Z

<div><p> Kiss, the indefatigable glam-rock pioneers who spawned a billion Halloween costumes and their own teenage army, returns to Las Vegas on Saturday for a show at the Pearl at the Palms. This fall the band, still powered by founding members Paul Stanley and Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.</p><p>"I thought, `It's a nodule, I'm a guy, I don't think it's anything more than that,'" he said. "The more I messed with it, the bigger it got and the more it hurt, and that started really scaring me."</p><p>The former Reuters) - Peter Criss, founding member of rock band KISS, knows that many of his male fans are macho, so he is making the rounds to tell them even tough rocker guys like him can suffer from a disease usually associated with women -- breast cancer.</p><p&...

Latest KISS makeover pays off for tireless rockers

2010-02-24T18:58:08Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paul Stanley surveys his home high in the hills overlooking Los Angeles and proudly dubs it "the house that bad reviews built."</p><p>But the KISS frontman is a mere visitor, relegated with his young family to a rental down the hill whi...

Kiss, Genesis, Chili Peppers Rock hall contenders

2010-02-25T03:31:15Z

<div><p>DETROIT (Billboard) - KISS, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis, the Hollies, LL Cool J and Jimmy Cliff are first-time ...

Music Rock Hall Nominees

2009-09-23T05:30:24Z

FILE - In this May 20, 2009 file photo, the rock band Kiss poses backstage after performing at the "American Idol" finale in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

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Gene Simmons promises high-impact "Boom" from Kiss

2010-02-25T06:24:22Z

<div><p>DETROIT (Billboard) - Gene Simmons says Kiss fans can expect to see "new outfits, a brand new stage and millions more (dollars) put into it" when the group begins its Kiss Alive 35 tour to promote "Sonic Boom," the band's first new album in 11 years, on September 25 in Detroit.</p><p&am...

Music Review: An `Anomaly': Album from Ace Frehley

2010-02-25T07:02:03Z

<div id="subtitle">Music Review: Ex-Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley's new album is an `Anomaly' 20 years in the making</div><div><p>Ace Frehley "Anomaly" (Bronx Born)</p><p>Guns 'N Roses has nothing on Ace Frehley when it comes to lengthy album delays. The 17...

Kiss sets off "Sonic Boom" with Walmart

2010-02-25T19:09:26Z

<div><p>DETROIT (Billboard) - Kiss, the self-proclaimed "hottest band in the land" is following the hottest trend in classic rock: the Walmart exclusive.</p><p>Like Journey's "Revelation" and Foreigner's "Can't Slo...

Want to Dress Up As the Band KISS?

2010-03-03T04:26:23Z

<p>Want to Dress Up As the Band KISS?</p><p>By Eddy Firestone</p><p></p><p>In the 1970's four New Yorkers got together to start a rock group. Wanting to be different then the average white man band the four musicians put on some crazy clothes and lavish make up and hit the streets. In essence, these musicians decided to become clowns in order to express their artistic vision and send their messag...

Selling Silly iPhone Apps in a Recession

2010-03-03T21:56:12Z

<div><p> I've never had much luck with heroes. Back when I was an adolescent, I worshipped the Fonz. That was until I found out that in real life he was just another skinny Jewish guy -- like me. I moved on to idolize Gene Simmons from the rock group KISS, only to reach the same conclusion. My h...

Overblown, overpaid and over here

2010-03-02T06:44:05Z

<div><p>Most rock stars, on being introduced to a female interviewer, offer nothing more than a handshake. But Gene Simmons has a reputation to maintain. Given his claim to have enjoyed the company of 4,000 women in his 35 years as leader of American costume-rockers Kiss, a simple "hello" won't do. The Simmons greeting starts as a hug, progresses into a pirouette and ends with the female bent backward over his ar...