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Daily Archives: October 17, 2013
KISS on the nominee list for 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the nominees for its Class of 2014. In alphabetical order:
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Chic
- Deep Purple
- Peter Gabriel
- Hall and Oates
- KISS
- LL Cool J
- Nirvana
- N.W.A
- The Meters
- The Replacements
- Linda Ronstadt
- Cat Stevens
- Link Wray
- Yes
- The Zombies
Voting will be done by more than 600 people from the music industry — musicians, historians, record company staffers — as well as (for the second year) fans. Fan voting begins today and ends December 10. You can vote at RockHall.com/vote.
KISS branded spicy meat buns look like Rocks, taste like Rolls
Steve Levenstein | Inventor Spot
KISS your buns? With pleasure but for a limited time only, and it’ll cost you 100 yen each time. We’re talking about the KISS Super-Spicy Chili Tomatoman meat buns on sale at Japan’s Circle K Sunkus convenience stores of course, a tasteful promotion seeking to boost awareness of Gene Simmons and the band’s upcoming Japanese tour.
The buns are delivered cold to each individual Circle K Sunkus location and are then heated to serving temperature in an in-store steamer. Peel back the collectible black-on-white wrapper featuring the made-up faces of each band member and you’ll find a gray flattened spheroid branded with a small KISS logo.
The bun’s not moldy; its rock-like look is purely intentional and is achieved through the use of Bamboo Charcoal in the pastry mix. It’s not near as black as Burger King Japan’s Premium KURO Burger so it’s got that going for it, which is nice. It gets better… lurking in the center of the bun is a fiery red tomato-meat mixture which, combined with the stone-simulating bun, evokes scenes of molten lava oozing down the slopes of Vesuvius, Kilauea, or Japan’s own Sakurajima.
Gene talks about new recordings and a huge 40th anniversary tour complete with symphony
Gene Simmons is already writing new stuff, just a year after 2012′s Monster, Kiss’ 20th studio effort. The band had previously gone three years between albums, dating back to 2009′s Sonic Boom.
Simmons is comparing “Your Wish is My Command,” a new song, to one of Kiss’ iconic concert favorites: “It could,” he tells Dorothy Lucey in this clip, “be the next ‘Rock and Roll All Nite.’”
But whatever excitement he has about these fresh sounds is tempered by huge plans out on the concert trail.
“We are going to go back in the studio at some point,” Simmons tells Dorothy Lucey. “But there’s a 40th anniversary world tour that’s going to happen, including Kiss with symphony orchestras. We already did that at Melbourne Stadium (on 2003′s Kiss Symphony: Alive IV), where the entire symphony orchestra was playing Stradivariuses — you don’t know what that is, but look it up — and we’re all wearing Kiss makeup, the entire 70-piece orchestra. You will have landed on Planet Kiss. We’re going to duplicate that around the world.”
Local orchestras will be used, Simmons says. “We’re going to have us a good old time,” he adds, “and of course blow stuff up.”