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Additional Jimmy Kimmel video:
A fan-shot video that shows more of the outtakes and interaction between the songs can be seen HERE. Another video from a distant angle is shown HERE.

KISS Starts their tour July 20 with Motley Crue. This will be a summer to remember! Tickets go on sale for all shows this Friday!

July 2012
20 – Jiffy Lube Live – Bristow, VA
21 – Farm Bureau Live – Virginia Beach, VA
22 – Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion – Raleigh, NC
24 – Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood – Atlanta, GA
25 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – Charlotte, NC
27 – Cruzan Amphitheatre – West Palm Beach, FL
28 – 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater – Tampa, FL
31 – Oak Mountain Amphitheatre – Pelham, AL

August 2012
3 – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion – Woodlands, TX
4 – Gexa Energy Paviliion – Dallas, TX
7 – Hard Rock Casino Presents: The Pavilion – Albuquerque, NM
8 – Comfort Dental Amphitheater – Englewood, CO
10 – Ashley Furniture Home Store Pavilion – Phoenix, AZ
11 – Mandalay Bay Arena – Las Vegas, NV
12 – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre – Chula Vista, CA
14 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – Irvine, CA
16 – Sleep Train Pavilion – Concord, CA
18 – White River Amphitheatre – Auburn, WA
19 – Sleep Country Amphitheater – Ridgefield, CT
24 – Rock Jam Grand – Junction, CO
26 – BOK Center – Tulsa, OK
27 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – Maryland Heights, MO
29 – Minnesota State Fair – Minneapolis, MN
31 – Riverbend Music Center – Cincinnati, OH

September 2012
1 – Klipsch Music Center – Noblesville, IN
2 – First Niagara Pavilion – Burgettstown, PA
4 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN
5 – DTE Energy Music Theatre – Clarkston, MI
7 – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre – Tinley Park, IL
8 – Alpine Valley Music Theater – East Troy, MI
11 – Allegan County Fair – Allegan, MI
12 – Blossom Music Center – Cuyahoga Falls, OH
13 – Molson Amphitheatre – Toronto, ON
15 – Darien Lake PAC – Darien Lake, NY
16 – Comcast Center – Mansfield, MA
18 – Toyota Pavilion – Scranton, PA
19 – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
21 – PNC Bank Arts Center – Holmdel, NJ
22 – Nikon at Jones Beach – Wantagh, NY
23 – Comcast Theater – Hartford, CT

Motley Crue joins KISS to announce THE TOUR!

@TheVinceNeil

“Tomorrow!! Tour Dates!!”, Vince Neil Tweeted today, along with this image below:

Keith Spera | The Times-Picayune

Danny Bourque

Veteran hard rock group Kiss will kick off “The Big Dance Concert Series” on Friday, March 30. The band last performed in New Orleans during the 2009 Voodoo Experience in City Park. Expect a set heavy on such favorites as “Rock ‘n’ Roll All Night,” “Detroit Rock City” and “Calling Dr. Love.”

The Black Keys, performing on Saturday March 31, are a natural choice: The NCAA is using the band’s “Gold on the Ceiling” as the theme music for the March Madness television promotional campaign. The Keys, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, traffic in a raucous style of blues-derived rock ‘n’ roll. The success of the band’s current “El Camino” album confirmed the Keys’ transition from underground sensation to mainstream attraction, as did a recent appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone and a show at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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KISSonline.com reminds us that KISS will be on Jimmy Kimmel TONIGHT, Tuesday, March 20, 2011!

As always, check local listings for time and channel.

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MIKE SYPNIEWSKI

Former Kiss drummer Peter Criss has announced plans to open up about his wild past and cancer battle in a new memoir.

The rocker will team up with celebrated author Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman to pen Makeup To Breakup, which is due to be released via publishing house Simon & Schuster’s imprint Scribner on 23 October.

He tells Artisan News, “I am so blessed that I am finally going to write my autobiography, and I hope you enjoy the ride. The best of all is I get to share my true feelings of my love for God, family, friends and fame. It’s been a wonderful life.”

And the musician promises to hold nothing back.

He adds, “It’s about my life. Of course, it’s about drugs, sex and rock and roll, but it’s about my parents, my growing up, getting through Brooklyn (New York), going through gangs, getting into drugs, getting out of them, getting through cancer. I’m four years free of cancer now. I’m doing great.”

Criss, who successfully fought off breast cancer in 2008, isn’t the only Kiss star to release a memoir this year – Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have co-authored a tale about the group’s formation, called Nothin’ To Lose, which is slated to hit U.S. shelves this summer.

Peter Criss’s book Makeup to Breakup is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Peter Arquette | KISS Asylum

Gus Griesinger | Backstage Axxess

While BackstageAxxess.com took part in the recent opening of the Monster Mini Golf in Las Vegas, we chatted with Kiss legend Paul Stanley about the bands new venture. We also talked about the upcoming tour (It will be with Motley Crue even though Paul couldn’t officially confirm it at the time.) In addition, we also chatted about how the new CD “Monster” will be sold and a couple of other things Kiss.

It’s been 5 years too long since I personally chatted with Paul and he fought the the sun to do so. What a class act! Enjoy the chat with one of the greatest front man of all time; Kiss’ Paul Stanley!

Paul Stanley interview video.

KISSasylum

The long anticipated Peter Criss autobiography Makeup to Breakup is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Release date is set for October 23, 2012. Pre-order now and it will ship to you on the release date. Follow link below to Amazon.com for ordering info:

Makeup to Breakup, by Peter Criss at Amazon.com

Robin Leach | Las Vegas Sun

April 1 – Full make-up appearance at Country Music Awards
April 2 – Performance in New Orleans at NCAA Final Four game
April 9 – Performance on Dancing with the Stars
May – Filming of new KISS movie begins
May – Gene Simmons Family Jewels Season 9 begins
July 19  – Three month tour with Motley Crue

About to celebrate 40 years in rock and roll, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS are legendary veterans of the music business, and they’re “Hotter Than Hell.” Actually, hotter than ever since forming in 1973 and in no way slowing down.

They rattled off just a few of the highlights of what’s ahead at the grand opening of KISS by Monster Mini Golf on Thursday afternoon:

*On April 1, in full makeup, they will be back in Las Vegas arriving on the red carpet in a Monster truck to present Best Vocal Group at the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

*On April 2, they’ll perform in New Orleans at the NCAA Final Four game.

*On April 9, they’ll perform two songs on the new season of “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC. (Don’t think Las Vegas resident Gladys Knight will samba to the songs.)

*In one month, they start filming a KISS movie with Mark Johnson of the “Narnia” films producing.

*In May, Season 9 of Gene’s “Family Jewels” begins and a 10th renewal looks definite for filming this fall for 2013.

*Their nearly three-month dual headline tour with Motley Crue starts July 19 and includes a stop here, as we reported in a Vegas DeLuxe interview with Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil.

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Peter Arquette | KISSasylum

KISSasylum

*All Photos by Peter Arquette for KISSasylum unless otherwise noted.

VegasNews.com

Erik Kabik

Local celebrities and VIPs joined the KISS co-founding members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, as well as band members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer, for the grand opening of KISS Monster Mini Golf located on Harmon Avenue, across the street from the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas (Photo: © Erik Kabik/ Scott Harrison/ www.erikkabik.com).

Celebs includes Robin Leach; comedian Andrew Dice Clay; Absinthe stars The Gazillionaire, Penny Pibbets, Angel Porrino, Paul Matthew Lopez; George Lyons of The Lyons Den on KUNV; Pawn Stars Rick Harrison and Chumlee; Chippendales dancers; Jersey Boys; impersonator Frank Marino and more.

Click here for photos taken inside KISS by Monster Mini Golf!

Aaron Drawhorn | 8 News Now

Kristin Mirtich | Celebrity Baby Scoop

KISS vocalist Paul Stanley, 60, was spotted enjoying s sunny stroll with his wife Erin Sutton and the couple’s youngest daughter Emily Grace, 7 months, on Tuesday (March 13) in Los Angeles, Calif.

The doting daddy – who is also father to 17-year-old son Evan with ex-wife Pamela Bowen as well as son Colin, 5, and daughter Sarah, nearly 3, with his current wife – pushed his youngest daughter in her stroller as the trio ran some errands together. At one point, Paul bent over to smile and coo at his sweet baby girl.

The KISS logo can be found on many things around the nation, and now is can be found on a miniature golf course in Las Vegas, Nevada!

The new attraction will feature an 18-hole indoor glow-in-the-dark course, an arcade, themed party rooms and, in true Vegas style, a wedding chapel!

KISSkruise.com

KISSonline.com has announced tickets for the second KISS Kruise have gone on sale today to the general public! This one is expected to sell out fast, so make your plans soon!

Today marks the public onsale date for The KISS Kruise II! The second KISS Kruise is setting sail October 31 – November 4, 2012 from Miami, FL to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas onboard Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Norwegian Pearl. No other Hallows’ Eve celebrations can compare!

Visit www.thekisskruise.com to book your cabin today! Less than 100 cabins remain on the ship, so don’t miss your chance to rock at sea with KISS!

Spencer Kaufman | Loudwire

After weeks of rumors, Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has confirmed that the Crue will join forces with KISS for a co-headlining U.S. tour this summer. The rocker spilled the news about the trek in a new interview with the Las Vegas Sun.

“It’s going to be really cool because KISS is bringing their full stage show, and Motley will be bringing our full stage show,” reveals Neil tells Robin Leach of the Las Vegas Sun. “So, you are going to see two huge headliners at the same time. It’s going to be one of the biggest tours of the summer, if not the biggest.”

The summer trek is set to take place from July through September, with an official announcement expected next week. Prior to the U.S. run, Motley Crue will tour Europe in June.

Neil also talked more about his Las Vegas strip club Girls, Girls, Girls, which has a soft opening this Friday, March 16. The singer claims that it’s the business venture he’s most excited about. “I love the tequila business, I love the restaurants and the nightclub stuff, but I’ve always wanted to have a strip club. It’s … a dream come true. I’ve been going to strip clubs my whole life, so I might as well own one.”

The official grand opening will take place a month from now, but Neil doesn’t plan to stop with just one club. “This is going to be the first of many of them around the country. In the next two years, we’ll have at least two more clubs open, hopefully more, and I’m looking for club spots right now, in New Orleans and elsewhere where I tour.”

Neil is excited about the tour with KISS, as well as having a new place to call home: “It’s going to be a great summer, and now every time I get back home to Vegas between shows, I’ll have my own strip club to hang out in — it’s all perfect!”

Calvert Collins | 8 News Now

 

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas valley is home to dozens of beautifully landscaped golf courses. Later this week, another one with a rock ‘n’ roll twist will open.

The new one is different. It is indoors. It glows in the dark, and it is all about the rock legends: KISS.

“You shoot things into Gene’s head and things happen,” said Christina Vitagliano the founder of Monster Mini Golf.

Tim Zietlow

Vitagliano’s company will be opening KISS Monster Mini Golf. They have imaginative mini golf courses in several other places around the country. The part-time Henderson resident came up with the idea for the Monster Mini Golf in 2004. A KISS course was always an idea, but it took the past year to get the band onboard.

“As our company grew, I wanted to have a flagship location here, but you have got to build it Vegas-style,” Vitagliano said. “If you are an entrepreneur and you are into entertainment and you want to do something that is very outside the box, this is the place to do it.”

Vitagliano thought KISS was a perfect fit. She converted a hamburger joint, across from the Hard Rock Hotel, into a 15,000 square-foot home for a mini golf course, an arcade, a wedding chapel and the world’s largest KISS gift shop. The course will be open from 10 a.m. to midnight every day. It officially opens to the public Thursday with an appearance from all four members of KISS.