 |
 |
NEW ADDITIONS |
|
|
Accessories |
|
|
Artwork |
|
|
Autographs |
|
|
Books / Tourbooks |
|
|
Calendars |
|
|
CD / Audio |
|
|
CLOTHING |
|
|
Costumes |
|
|
DVD / Video |
|
|
Glassware |
|
|
Gold Records |
|
|
Home Decor |
|
|
Magazines |
|
|
Picks and Sticks |
|
|
Pins |
|
|
Posters |
|
|
School Supplies |
|
|
Toys / Games |
|
|
Trading Cards |
|
|
Vintage / Rare |
|
|
Vinyl |
PaulStanley.com
GeneSimmons.com
PeterCriss.net
AceFrehley.com
Eric-Singer.com
TommyThayer.com
Kulick.net
EricCarr.com
KISSonline.com
Current News
All news should be considered an unconfirmed report unless verified, and all information published at KISS Asylum is attributed to the source from which it was received so that readers may judge the validity of the statements for themselves. All information is confirmed where possible, and all publication is governed by common sense.
Have KISS news to report? Email us at news@kissasylum.com.
Bruce Kulick At KISSCoffeehouse Clip
From: SCnow.com / RocketScience.com
Posted: February 8, 2010
This weekend, Bruce Kulick dropped by the KISS Coffeehouse in Myrtle Beach, SC for a meet and greet with fans. The event was an unofficial East Coast CD release party for BK3 and we wanted to share with you a clip from CBS's coverage of the event:
Mini KISS On Good Day LA
From: RedLasso.com
Posted: February 8, 2010
Here is an interview with Mini KISS talking about the KISS Dr. Pepper Ad.
New KISS Dr. Pepper Commercial
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 7, 2010
Here's KISS' Dr. Pepper commercial that just aired during the 2nd quarter of the Big Game!
Record Your Own Version Of Dr. Love Now
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 7, 2010
Dr Pepper.com invites KISS fans to be a part of an endless version of "Calling Dr. Love" too! Visit Dr Pepper.com to record your own performance, then become a part of the Never-Ending Song!
New KISS Dr Pepper Commercial Debuts Today
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 6, 2010
Dr Pepper's new Dr. Love ad featuring KISS will air during the 2nd quarter of the Big Game today! The game starts at 6 PM EST on CBS TV.
Here's a sneak peek of the commercial to get you ready!!
KISS To Rock Huge French Festival
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 6, 2010
KISS will headline Hellfest, the huge open air summer festival in Clisson, France. The band will close the three-day event on June 20 with the bombastic KISS spectacle!
Thanks to Fred Vehert for sending the show art to KISSonline!
Click here for the HELLFEST web site.
Ace On Drive With Richard Glover
From: ABC Sydney
Posted: February 5, 2010
Ace Frehley, formerly of KISS, has a solo album and tour and joined Richard in the Drive studio.
He admitted that he's not handy at guitar computer games even if he is pretty fine at the real thing and describes the sensation of playing on stage in front of a big audience as "euphoric."
"Sometimes I'll play and I'll feel like lightning shots through my arms," he adds, "I don't know where its coming from but I guess there's energy from somewhere I'm picking up."
He shared some of that energy in his conversation with us, that you can hear here.
What's New In KISS Collecting
Klown Alive II - KISS Tribute CD
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 5, 2010
Klown Alive II is by far the best packaged KISS Tribute CD ever released. The CD cover is a miniature cardboard recreation of a gate-fold 12" LP and the actual CD has artwork that recreates the Casablanca LP label. And like the KISS albums of the '70's, the Klown CD includs many bonus items. You get a Klown sticker, temporary tattoo, trading card and guitar pick. This is a great package at a great price!
The recording is top-quality and very professional, made to sound like the Alive albums KISS released decades ago.
$11.95 at KISSmuseum.com
Sell Your KISS Collection
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 5, 2010
ATTENTION KISS FANS in the NY NJ PA area: KISS MUSEUM is now buying collections large and small.
Ebay is annoying --- too much work ---- We will pay you cash right now
It does not matter if you have 3 items to sell or 3,000 items to sell....
We purchase Kiss Items from 1973-2009.....
Any type of item ---- posters, toys, magazines, shirts, photos, guitars, tourbooks, spencers items, records....We BUY EVERYTHING !!!!
Over the years, we have noticed around this time of year a large number of people offer their collections for sale. Recognizing this trend, we have put aside time and money NOW to concentrate on buying. We will be able to respond, evaluate and pay you in the least amount of time, much quicker than usual, guaranteed! We are interested in buying ENTIRE collections.
Email us at sellmykissstuff@yahoo.com with your name and phone number or Call ROSS toll-free at 1-800-370-3315 ....We need your contact information so we can respond to you.....we can't buy your stuff if you don't contact us so call today; we are here to help. You will be called back within 24 hours, 7 days a week
Preview Of KISS Superbowl Commercial
From: FastCompany.com
Posted: February 3, 2010
This exclusive peek of Dr. Pepper's first-ever Super Bowl spot features the painted faces of rock band KISS as well as their diminutive doppelgangers, MiniKISS. Agency Deutsch wanted to emphasize Dr. Pepper's "little KISS" of cherry. According to Dr. Pepper, the bands have met before, but this was their first offical performance.
Look for the full spot at the two-minute warning, just before halftime.
BK3 - Bruce Kulick Releases New CD
From: ShopInRI.com
Posted: February 3, 2010
Grand Funk Railroad guitarist Bruce Kulick has released BK3, a new solo CD (www.kulick.net). The first single, "Hand of the King," features guest vocalist Nick Simmons, from A&E's "Family Jewels" reality show. This is Kulick's third solo disc this decade, hence the title. Full of straight ahead rock and roll, BK3 also makes shameless use of heavy industry contacts, (read - his personal friends); and while the guest vocalists vary from song to song, Kulick's strong, tasteful guitar work keeps BK3 very much his own musical statement. Classic Rock Magazine named BK3 on it's list of "Six To Look Out For In 2010", saying the disc "truly rocks...but is very creative".
Bruce Kulick, 56, was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. His brother Robert is a well known, and well respected session guitarist and Grammy winning producer. Being older by four years, Bob brought home all the exciting new music of the British Invasion, seminal bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Led Zeppelin. Bruce was an eager sponge, learning to play guitar partly from Bob, and also tapping into a natural talent. A self described book worm in high school, Kulick knew music was definitely in his future, as it was something he was very good at.
In 1977 at age twenty three Bruce, along with Bob, leaped into big time rock and roll by joining The Neverland Express -- Meat Loaf's band for the huge "Bat Out Hell" tour, taking the Kulick brothers all over the globe, including an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in 1978. After that high profile gig ended, Bob resumed his session playing, including both credited and uncredited appearances on KISS records, while Bruce moved on to work with Billy Squire, The Good Rats, and Michael Bolton among others (they formed a band together called Black Jack in the early 80s, long before Bolton became every housewife's heartthrob).
The First KISS
From: SonicBoomers.com
Posted: February 2, 2010
Way back during the last years of the '60s and start of the '70s, I went to the famous High School of Music & Art in Harlem, USA. It was way the heck uptown in the middle of CCNY's campus. On my third day there, the no-kidding-around Black Panthers, looking fabulous in their black leather "car coat" jackets, berets and Ray-Bans, took over the entire CCNY campus and held it hostage for two weeks.
We M&A pee wee middle-class Jewish, Italian, Polish, Irish, baby-Che Guevara wannabes were thrilled and would throw them our little white-bread power-fists every morning and afternoon as we came and went. For awhile, they power-fisted us back from behind the barricades they'd throw together of desks, chairs, garbage cans, etc. behind the gates of the campus and we'd yell slogans of encouragement. But, by the end of the first week, the Black Panthers, hungry, dirty, fed up, on the verge of being arrested, were in no mood for our play-acting.
This event was immediately followed by a teachers' strike that was perceived by progressives to be an outright act of racism. My dad, a long-time staunch union man, came into Music & Art and taught English for a week, he was so disgusted. "The only picket line I ever crossed, Binky. I want you to know that." Interesting times for a "gifted underachiever" sophomore.
Gene Simmons Cow Tongue Rumors Put To Rest
From: KISSasylum.com
Posted: February 2, 2010
If you were alive or at least cognizant back in the '70's, you might remember one of the many KISS rumors of the time was how Gene Simmons got those extra tongue inches by grafting that of a cows to his own.
The fact that some '70's photos, particularly the one of KISS looking through the cut-out of the U.S.A., (we looked but couldn't find the image, sorry), showed what looked like a lateral scar across the famous appendage. Snopes.com addresses this odd bovine story and gives us the truth once and for all.
Click to read the entire detailed story here.
KISS On Extreme Makeover Home Edition February 21st
From: ABC/KISSonline.com
Posted: February 2, 2010
The KISS episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is scheduled to air Sunday, February 21 at 8 pm (EST) .
In the spirit of the KISS Army, when the ABC hit show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" told legendary rockers KISS about a family of needy KISS fans in Gainesville, Florida, who started a home-based, non-profit music school while their own home is falling down around them, the band heeded the call and launched the offense during their Tulsa stop on their North American KISS/Alive 35 tour.
Tobin and Jill Wagstaff, a couple with four children, operate Studio Percussion, Inc., a school that currently serves about 200 people, half of which receive financial aid or a full scholarship. The non-profit school can only afford to pay Tobin, 29, a salary, so Jill, 32, must also work as a pre-school teacher to help pay the bills. Their utter devotion to their family, school, and community leaves little time and resources to tend to their home that is in dire need of repair. The floors and rooftops are completely rotting away and the electrical system throughout the house is faulty.
Calling Dr. Love: KISS Invades Superbowl
From: EntertainmentTonight
Posted: February 2, 2010
Only ET is behind the scenes with legendary rockers KISS on their first-ever Dr. Pepper Super Bowl commercial -- featuring Mini KISS!
"The basic premise of this is I'm Dr. Love -- you're not," Gene Simmons tells ET. "Dr. Love is here to make you all feel better, girls."
Airing during the second quarter of the big game this Sunday, the ad features the return of Gene as Dr. Love along with lead singer Paul Stanley and the rest of the KISS line-up rocking onstage with Mini KISS, extolling the virtues of Dr. Pepper Cherry's uniquely smooth taste.
"It's a little hint of KISS with a little hint of cherry," says Paul in pitchman mode.
Paul and Evan Stanley Live
From: YouTube
Posted: February 2, 2010
Paul Stanley of KISS fame rocks live with his equally kickass son Evan.
Bruce Kulick Interview
From: WKEQ
Posted: February 1, 2010
Rod "The Z Man" Zimmerman, the afternoon drive guy on WKEQ Classic Rock Q97.1FM in Somerset, KY, recently interviewed Bruce Kulick about BK3. Here are the 3 parts to that interview.
Ace Frehley On Chris Smith Show
From: 2GB.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Chris Smith talks to rock legend Ace Frehley about his astonishing career and his current Australian tour.
Ace Frehley Happier Without KISS Egos
From: TheWest.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley says he's happier touring as a solo artist than with his ex-bandmates because the only ego he has to deal with is his own.
Frehley will begin his It's Ace Downunder Australian tour in Perth on Monday.
He rose to fame wearing the black, white and silver Spaceman face paint with one of the world's biggest bands, and the last time he was in the country was in 2001 for the KISS reunion tour.
But Frehley, 58, said he was enjoying himself much more on his first solo Australian tour.
"It's great - I don't have to deal with three other egos," Frehley told AAP, laughing.
Ace Frehley on The Grill Team Podcast
From: triplem.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Here's the recent Podcast by The Grill Team featuring an interview with guitarist Ace Frehley.
Ace Frehley Returns To Australia
From: RaveMagazine.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Guitar shop types will tell you (perhaps correctly) that former KISS axeman ACE FREHLEY is a technically limited guitar player. But he's unquestionably the definitive guitar player for KISS. MATT THROWER discovers why.
This is awkward. KISS and Ace Frehley have new studio albums out at roughly the same time. Although the brand name ensures KISS' Sonic Boom is the higher-profile release (not to mention a cleaner, more disciplined record), it can't hold a candle to Ace Frehley's Anomaly, a messy headrush of leather-clad hard rock and psychedelia. Dedicated to Dimebag Darrell and late Kiss drummer Eric Carr (that performer's make-up persona hinted at in the killer rock & roll of Foxy & Free and a cover of Sweet's Fox On The Run), Anomaly may even be making KISS nervous.
On the eve of his Australian tour, Ace has just one comment to make relating to his former colleagues.
"Where did Paul Stanley play on his last tour?" Ace asks in his unmistakeable Bronx accent, a speaking voice unchanged since the 1970s. Despite his 58 years of age, he still sounds like a teenage New York punk - he's the one member of KISS you could imagine playing in other quintessential Noo Yawk institutions like The Ramones.
Bruce Kulick Interview
From: BraveWords.com
Posted: January 31, 2010
Bravewords.com's Mitch Lafon recently caught up with former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick to discuss his new album, BK3, and touch on Kulick's KISS career. Check it out below.
Todd Youth joining Ace's band for Australian Tour
From: Mick's Headbangers Ball
Posted: January 29, 2010
Guitarist Todd Youth (D-GENERATION, DANZIG, THE ROYAL HIGHNESS, MICHAEL MONROE) will join legendary KISS guitarist Ace Frehley for his upcoming tour of Australia.
Comments Youth: "I can't even begin to say how excited I am to play with Ace!!"
"Like many guitarists my age, Ace is the reason I started playing guitar; he's my Chuck Berry, my Jimmy Page. Every note I play, it all comes back to Space Ace, and I think [Frehley's new album] 'Anomaly' is a smoking classic Ace record,so I'm planning on it being a blast!!"
The dates are as follows:
Feb. 01 - Perth, Australia - Metropolis Fremantle
Feb. 04 - Adelaide, Australia - HQ Complex
Feb. 05 - Melbourne, Australia - Palace Theater
Feb. 07 - Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre
Feb. 08 - Brisbane, Australia - Brisbane Tivoli Theatre
Nick Simmons To Perform 'Hand Of The King' at BK3 Release Party; Gene Simmons' Family Jewels To Film Event
From: Kulick.net
Posted: January 28, 2010
I would like to announce some exciting news regarding the BK3 release party at The Cat Club on February 1st. Nick Simmons will be performing "Hand Of The King" with me and my band. The band will include Brent Fitz on drums, Todd Kerns on guitar and vocals, and Adam Kury on bass and vocals.
The Gene Simmons' Family Jewels show will also be there to capture the evening's activities. The set list is not long, but looking to be very exciting in the song department. I hope to have a few other players sit in if things run smoothly enough.
Watch my site (http://www.kulick.net) for more info regarding the retail and online shops where you'll be able to get your copy of BK3 on its US release date of February 2nd. Thank you all again for your support!
Ace Frehley Tickets On Sale For New York City 3/21/10
From: KISSasylum.com
Posted: January 28, 2010
JUST ANNOUNCED! Ace Frehley returns to New York City March 21, 2010 at the Nokia Theater in Times Square. Showtime is 8pm and doors open at 7pm.
More info at nokiatheatrenyc.com
KISS Coffeehouse Wins Best Coffeehouse Award
From: WFBM News/KISSonline.com
Posted: January 27, 2010
The KISS Cofeehouse has been chosen as the best coffeehouse on the Grand Strand. The "Grand Strand" is over a 60 mile stretch of coast line, from the North Carolina border, all the way down to Georgetown, SC. This was the inaugural "Best of the Grand Strand" contest featuring more than 500 of the Grand Strand's best local businesses, in over 65 categories, and was voted on by the local viewing area's viewers! In all, over 11,000 votes were cast by viewers!
Coffee with attitude didn't exist in the marketplace until the KISS Coffeehouse exploded onto the scene in Myrtle Beach, SC. KISS Coffeehouse is a stimulating environment to drink a stimulating beverage.
KISS Appearance On Wetten, Dass Confirmed
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: January 26, 2010
KISS will appear live on the German TV Show, 'Wetten, Dass...?' ('Wanna Bet?') on February 27.
'Wetten, dass..?' is the most successful television show in Europe! The entertainment show regularly draws over 50% of all German-speaking viewers.
KISS will perform on the show to promote the Sonic Boom album and their upcoming Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour.
KISS Ring Opening Bell At NYSE
From: KISSonline.com/Fox Business
Posted: January 25, 2010
Check out this clip of KISS at the New York Stock Exchange today with the CEO of Dr. Pepper!
One Live KISS At CIMM Fest 2010
From: PaulStanley.com
Posted: January 21, 2010
The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival 2010 Proudly presents Paul Stanley 'One Live KISS' on the big screen!
Hailed as an stunning classic by audiences & critics alike upon it's release in 2008 by Universal Pictures/Ume/New Door Records - 'One Live KISS' is a unique, personal, and intimate concert film featuring the legendary Paul Stanley of super group KISS & directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louis Antonelli is back as it was meant to be experienced - Larger than life on the big screen!! - in shattering multi-channel digital theater concert sound!!
One show only on Saturday, March 6th @ 3:00 pm (doors open @ 2:00 pm - arrive early * special audience prize giveaways planned!)
Looking for more KISS news? Here's a link to previous archives: [more]