VANS KISS WINDOW DISPLAY

Thanks to our friend Mike Brandvold for sending in this picture of the KISS window display at the Vans store in San Francisco Mall!

RINGING OPENING BELL

Here's a video clip of Gene opening the New York Stock Exchange yesterday morning.

KEYNOTE AT BILLBOARD CONFERENCE

By Mitchell Peters, L.A.
Photo credit J. DeNobile

Having recently completed a 30-plus-date European tour, Kiss will "eventually when we're ready tour America," co-founder Gene Simmons said during a keynote address today (Nov. 20) at the fifth annual Billboard Touring Conference, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

Referring to Kiss as the "juggernaut of all rock'n'roll brands," Simmons said the band is currently working out future tour details. "We've been talking with [manager Doc McGhee] about Europe and then doing a year-long tour maybe this coming summer, but we'll see," Simmons said. "Kiss and Queen, ...Full Story

LATEST KISS MERCHANDISE

Here are the latest KISS merchandise items now available in KOL's KISS SHOP!

KISS Eagle & American Flag T-shirt

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KISS Eagle & American Flag Zipper Hoody Sweatshirt

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KISS Logo Zippo Lighter

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KISS Rock 'N' Roll Over Cocktail Table (back by popular demand!)

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KOL FAN LETTERS

Our 4 yr old daughter said she wanted to be a Rockstar for Halloween this year so we thought… Okay- no problem Hannah Montana? Britney Spears? Pretty easy costume. “No,” she told us. I want to be the guy who wears white makeup with black on his eyes and has spikes on his shoulders. So we showed her a picture of KISS and she pointed at Gene Simmons and said, “That guy, I wanna be that guy!”

Here is Mackenzie in costume...she was a crack-up!

Thanks,

Adam & Krystal

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RINGS OPENING BELL!

Gene rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange today!

ONE LIVE KISS REVIEW

By Anthony Kuzminski

The overall look of the DVD is spectacular. All too often I tend to find artists taking shortcuts when they put these DVD’s out. They often go on the cheap not hiring a competent director, shooting on cheap video over film and documenting their legacy with half-talents. That is not the case here. Its clear Stanley has come to realize the importance of documenting all phases of one’s career and he didn’t cheap out here. Paul Stanley’s One Live KISS DVD features an artist whose hunger still roars when he hits the stage. From the opening thunder of “Live To Win” to the finale of “Good Bye”, One Live KISS is a document of an underrated musician whose hunger matches those of unproven artists and simultaneously reminding KISS fans why we became hypnotized by their image and music in the first place.

CLICK HERE to order ONE LIVE KISS at Amazon.

SEASON THREE DVD SET OUT TODAY

The Gene Simmons Family Jewels: Season Three DVD set was released today. The box set features 4 DVDs with a running time of 600 minutes.

CLICK HERE to buy the DVD Set at Amazon.com now.

A NEW CLASSIC KISS ALBUM???

Paul Stanley 'open to the idea' of recording a brand new KISS album…

KISS rhythm guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley has confirmed to the Clog that the band are seriously considering recording a new album. Rumours of a brand new KISS release first surfaced last week on photographer Ross Halfin’s blog. Now Geoff Barton has taken it upon himself to grab the Classic Rock poker and agitate the embers of speculation (poetic, huh?!).

Barton recently talked to Stanley and asked him:

What does the future hold for KISS?

It looks like we’ll be touring Europe as well as the States next year. You’ll be getting more of what you saw at the Download festival this past summer – the KISS Alive! vibe amped up to the max. There might even be a new KISS album at some point. I have been ambivalent to the idea in the past but I’m much more open to it now.

Why is that?

Well, I thought that I'd be content for KISS to remain a heritage act, just playing our greatest hits – Detroit Rock City and all that. But the new KISS line-up with Tommy Thayer (guitar) and Eric Singer (drums) is proving to be so good, so strong in spirit, it would interesting to see how we perform in the studio. I must stress that no recording time has been booked at this point. But it if we were to go into the studio, the intention would be to make a KISS album in the style of our 1970s recordings. A classic KISS album, unmistakably.

(Read more in the January issue of Classic Rock, on sale December 10.)

INTERVIEW ON KISS & NEW SOLO DVD

CLICK HERE to visit 'The Electric Morning Show' web site and hear Paul's interview with Jack Hammer & Andre! When you get to their website, click the 'LISTEN' link next to Paul's picture.