AP - Mar 25, 2011
The legendary Kiss bassist Gene Simmons says that watching Jerusalem go through a deadly bombing this week has not changed his belief that Jews and Arabs can live in peace. The Israeli-born entertainer...
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Three years after beating breast cancer — a disease that rarely affects men — former Kiss drummer Peter Criss wants guys to know it can happen to them, too. The rock star best known for the...
More »Reuters - Jul 23, 2010
As the concert business struggles with top-name cancellations this summer, KISS hits the road in North America, betting that its spectacle of classic rock, pyrotechnics and fire-breathing will lure cash...
More »AP - Jul 1, 2010
In a June 28 obituary of Kiss rock group manager Bill Aucoin, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Aucoin discovered the band. Lew Linet said he was the group s first manager. Aucoin followed...
More »AP - Jun 28, 2010
Bill Aucoin, who discovered the rock group Kiss and helped build them into a musical and merchandising juggernaut, died Monday in Florida. He was 66. Aucoin died at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center...
More »AP - May 27, 2010
Prosecutors will not charge Kiss rocker Gene Simmons over an alleged attack on a couple at an upscale outdoor mall, while a new, separate civil lawsuit claims the musician sexually assaulted a makeup...
More »Reuters - May 14, 2010
KISS bassist Gene Simmons on Friday denied brushing up against a make-up artist and grinding against her, saying his codpiece-style stage costume made that impossible. Simmons' legal team filed court...
More »Reuters - Oct 21, 2009
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...
More »AP - Oct 15, 2009
Kiss, Sonic Boom (Kiss Records) Sonic Boom, the first Kiss studio album in 11 years, is one of the best hard rock albums of 2009. But what keeps it from being truly great is the massive musical identify...
More »AP - Aug 17, 2009
Wal-Mart is being embraced with a Kiss. The veteran heavy metal group, Kiss, is joining a growing list of classic acts putting out new music through the world s largest retailer....
More »Reuters - Jul 30, 2009
Fans attending one of the world's biggest heavy metal festivals in Germany were asked on Thursday to avoid hugging, kissing on the cheek, and shaking hands lest they spread the H1N1 influenza. On...
More »AP - May 30, 2008
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 Iraq. Kiss had a sold-out concert...
More »Reuters - Nov 14, 2007
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 entering its third season on A&E....;
More »E! Online - Jul 30, 2007
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 concert Friday after suffering heart...
More »AP - Jul 29, 2007
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 site. Band-mates Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer...
More »Reuters - Jul 28, 2007
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 normal level, he said on his Web...
More »AP - Jul 24, 2007
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. Best known for crooning the...
More »E! Online - Apr 9, 2007
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 guitarist, who followed Frehley and...
More »E! Online - Oct 3, 2006
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 Vincent s lawsuit against KISS...
More »AP - Oct 2, 2006
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 rulings dismissing Vincent s claim...
More »Reuters - Aug 18, 2006
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 Door imprint. Stanley will support...
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