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Talking Watches With Eric Singer from HODINKEE on Vimeo.

Strange Ways

Your STRANGE WAYS bros have a really good time in the studio recording KISS covers, just for the fun of it! This batch has some classics, and a few you might not expect..even a surprise or two… We hope you will enjoy them, KISS ARMY!! And as always, thanks for listening, and keep on rockin’!

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The first promotional photo for the “Space Invader” album campaign from original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley can be seen above.

The session, which took place on April 8 in New York City with photographer Jayme Thornton, saw Ace wearing something from the first KISS album photo session to make the occasion extra special.

Reads a posting on Ace‘s Facebook page: “Don’t worry if you can’t spot it, just yet… numerous cool photos from this session will reveal it soon!”

Ace Frehley will release “Space Invader”, his first new solo album in five years, via Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) on June 24. The album will include at least nine brand new original songs as well as a cover of Steve Miller‘s “The Joker”. This album is the first release under Frehley‘s new universal deal on eOne Music.

Frehley has released an official statement surrounding the exciting news: “Life on Earth has been very good to me, and the body of work I’ve created over the years has withstood the test of time. Today I see no obstacles before me and my creativity has never been more fine tuned. Growing up in an Alien world has enhanced my senses and allowed me to succeed where others would have failed. The best is yet to come!”

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Ruth Blatt | Forbes

“It’s a pretty safe statement to say that most entertainers have self worth issues and image issues, inferiority issues.” That’s KISS’s Paul Stanley, talking to me about his new memoir, Face the Music: A Life Exposed. “ Let’s face it, getting up on a stage or getting up in front of people is not a normal thing to do ,” he continued. “You do it because you’re seeking approval on a mass scale when you don’t get it on a small scale. So if you’re not going to address that as you become successful then the clock is ticking because of all the possible poisons that will enter into your life. Unless you can look elsewhere to remedy whatever the problems are, you’re a fatality waiting to happen, if not in terms of your life then certainly in terms of your career.”

The statement isn’t too surprising given that KISS is increasingly known for their internal strife. The conflict over KISS’s legacy – and the people who go down in history as the architects of its success – has come to head over KISS’s recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Stanley’s refusal, along with co-founder Gene Simmons, to perform at the ceremony with the band’s original lineup.

The details of their beefs are available elsewhere. My conversation with Stanley focused on how he avoided the career suicide that led to the ousting of original drummer Peter Criss and the ungraceful exit of original lead guitarist Ace Frehley.

First was the realization that the flip side of success is the inevitable precipice you reach. Here is how Stanley describes it in his book: “I was being pulled up the big hill, knowing we were going to reach the top at any moment and then plunge down the other side, falling, screaming, with no control whatsoever. I could feel the momentum, the process of being pulled up the hill. I could tell we had reached a point of no return. All I could do was hold on real tight.”

But the inevitable fall wasn’t Stanley’s real problem. The real problem was that he had nothing to hold on to, no loved ones to ground him. The relationships he did have were, for the most part, toxic.

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93 Rock

Ace Frehley  is a busy guy these days. The guitarist — who’s fresh from being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the rest of his former band,  KISS  — turns 63 this Sunday, but will have to celebrate on the fly: he’s got his hands full with a pressing production schedule for his new solo album.

The new collection, titled  Space Invader , will be Frehley’s first since 2009’s  Anomaly , which in turn was his first solo release in 20 years.  Space Invader  is coming along nicely, Frehley says, telling ABC News Radio that he has “about 15 songs in the can, and we’re gonna pick the best 12. We’re in the process as we speak.”

The first single from  Space Invader,  says Ace, is “a remake of  Steve Miller ‘s ‘The Joker.’ [It’s] great. I think everybody’s going to be pleasantly surprised.  I made it my own, I gave it the little Ace Frehley spin.”

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Scott Gries

1 Rarely does a rock star explore his own psyche in depth like Kiss’ Paul Stanley does in the autobiography “Face the Music: A Life Exposed.” He was bullied as a kid (because he had only one outer ear) and ignored by his parents, who were busy dealing with his older sister who was in and out of psychiatric institutions. Stanley (real name Stanley Eisen) knew he had issues so he went on his own, at age 15, to see a shrink — who later became Kiss’manager. Oy vey! The rocker also talks about how original Kiss members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss seemed anti-Semitic and how the rivalry between him and Gene Simmons plays out. You wanted the best? You get the mess — insecurities, makeup and all.

4 The Wendy Knox-directed, Frank Theatre production of “Threepenny Opera” is a thing of strange beauty, with heavenly voices and a look that suggests scenes from a nether dream. The classic Brecht/Weill musical tells a gangland story involving an ice-cold killer’s secret marriage to the daughter of the exploitative king of the beggars in Victorian England. The prodigiously gifted Bradley Greenwald, as Mack the Knife, leads a killer cast at the Southern Theater. franktheatre.org

3 In a clever new show at the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Amy Toscani has mined thrift-store trinkets for inspiration and body parts for Brobdingnagian sculptures, whose huge scale dwarfs viewers. Typically, she fuses doll heads (dog, princess, teddy bear) to gigantic torsos that turn the gallery into an Alice in Wonderland fantasy. Mountain retreats, bears in giant trees and monstrous plastic trinkets flesh out Toscani’s fun fair. artsmia.org

2 In “The Unknown Known,” Donald Rumsfeld, the only person to hold the position of U.S. secretary of defense twice, emerges as a ninja master of ego-flattering rationale. The film, by master documentarian Errol Morris, asks him to review his career with special emphasis

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Jody Havenot | Strange Ways

Episode 21 finds Jody Havenot joined once again with his KISS Army sista, Rachel Ann! And as usual, we discuss a wide range of KISS topics..including but not limited to KISS tributes, groupies, and KISS 40. As always,thanks for listening, and keep on rockin’!

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Paul Stanley‘s autobiography, Face the Music: A Life Exposed, has debuted at number-two on The New York Times Best Sellers list for print Hardcover Non-Fiction. It also placed high on the paper’s Combined Print and E-Book best-seller list (number-three) and E-Book best-sellers list (number-13).

This is the highest-debuting memoir by a member of KISS. Peter Criss is second with Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of KISS (number-seven in the Times), while Ace Frehley‘s No Regrets debuted at number-10. Gene Simmons, the first member of the band to tell his story, only got as high as number-14 with KISS and Make-Up.